Month: March 2024

Resin Price Report: PE, PP prices retreat as buyers mount resistance

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: March 15, 2024

HDPE prices rise in Europe

Snetor to distribute Ascend products in Latin America

Trinseo considering exiting the virgin PC business

Avient introduces new TPEs for textile fabric laminations

The fundamentals of polyethylene part 3

This Week in History

March 26, 1956: Polypropylene was patented by J. Paul Hogan at Phillips Petroleum

March 27, 1933: Polyethylene was discovered by accident at ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries) in Northwich England

Resin price report: Pending increase sends buyers rushing to spot market for deals

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: March 8, 2024

Prices up for all volume resins

Tolsa develops new additives to replace PTFE in FR materials

PP prices march higher in Europe

SABIC introduces new weatherable PC copolymer for automotive exterior parts

The fundamentals of polyethylene part 2

SI Group gets FDA approval for PET additives

PolySource to distribute Asaclean purging compounds

This Week in History

March 22, 1949: John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson were issued a patent on PET fiber.

March 23, 1881: Hermann Stoudinger, who first characterized macromolecules as polymers, was born. He would win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1853

Resin Price Report: PP prices shoot up

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: March 1, 2024

NYCOA offering new long chain polyamide products

Internal audit of Chemours results on several senior execs being placed on leave

HDPE prices in Europe mixed

ARLANXEO to build new hydrogenated nitrile butadiene rubber plant in China

Composting additive for PLA added to FDA inventory of food contact substances

The fundamentals of polyethylene part 1: The Basics

This Week in History

March 14, 1876: Otto Rohm was born in Ohringen Germany. He was a chemist who was instrumental in the development of acrylic. He would later found Rohm & Haas and register the trade name Plexiglass.

Resin Price Report: PE price increase now uncertain

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: February 23, 2024

LDPE prices soar in Europe

Compounder Lehvoss to have booth at NPE

Kraiburg launches range of recycled content TPEs for automotive applications

Prices of all five commodity plastics on the way up

Modern Dispersions expands masterbatch production in Georgia

Asahi Kasei Plastics welcomes new President and COO

This Week in History

March 5, 1963: The Hula Hoop which was made from Phillips Petroleum polyethylene was invented.