Weekly News Digest: April 29, 2024

Resin Price Report: Spot PE flat, PP drops 2 more cents

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: April 19, 2024

HDPE prices down in Europe

Oboro Labs patents new catalyst for cyclic polymers

Covestro introduces new PC copolymer product line

The effects of time on polymers

This Week in History

April 29, 1937: Wallace Carothers, who is credited with inventing nylon, committed suicide by ingesting cyanide. He was only 41 years old.

Weekly News Digest: April 22, 2024

Resin Price Report: Soft prices about to get softer

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: April 12, 2024

NYCOA to launch plasticizer free long chain polyamide portfolio

Whatever happened to metallocene-catalyzed PP?

LLDPE prices down in Europe

Trinseo introduces new FR PC grades that do not contain PFAS additives

Toray develops spherical PA 4 fine particle that biodegrades in the sea

Fundamentals of polyethylene: Part 6

Entec and Channel Prime Alliance to distribute Delrin acetal

This Week in History

April 22, 1987: GE Plastics trademarks Noryl GTX

April 27, 1896: Wallace Carothers who is credited with inventing nylon was born in Burlington Iowa

Weekly News Digest: April 15, 2024

Resin Price Report: PP resin contracts could see double-digit discount

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: April 5, 2024

Polyplastics to show new PEK material at NPE2024

Second NPE2024 keynote speaker announced

Study finds that almost 2 million US manufacturing jobs may go unfilled

LDPE prices up in Europe

EPA releases interim guidance on destruction and disposal of PFAS

Kuraray to invest in a new EVOH plant in Singapore

Prices for PE, PS, PVC, PET trending flat, PP to drop

Fundamentals of Polyethylene Part 5

This Week in History

April 21, 1801: E.I DuPont DeNemours and Company founded in Wilmington Delaware

Weekly News Digest: April 1, 2024

Resin Price Report: Buyers hit pause as close of first quarter nears

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: March 22, 2024

Covestro opens new PC copolymer plant in Belgium

Peak Performance Compounding adds new small twin screw compounding lines

Avient introduces new Gravi-Tech density modified grades for packaging applications

This Week in History

April 6, 1865: BASF (Badishe Anilin Und Soda Fabrik) founded in Germany