Weekly News Digest: March 17, 2025

Why are antimony prices exploding?

I just can’t get my head around this study on microplastics in the brain

Global TPE market slows amid weak automotive demand

PMMA market steady in Europe

BPA prices rise after LG Chem’s force majeure

PP prices trend lower in Europe

LEGO introduces tires made from recycled fishing nets and motor oil

Kraiburg introduces new TPE with exceptional light transmissibility

SK develops new copolymer for breathable membranes

This Week in History

March 22, 1949: A patent was issued on PET fiber to John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson.

March 23, 1881: Hermann Stoudinger, who first characterized macromolecules as polymers was born. He would win the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1953.

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