Weekly News Digest: October 27, 2025

Ford Expedition wins top SPE award

Dow beats loss expectations

NNA Polymers to build Polyacrylamide plant in Texas

Polyplastics to split and transfer engineering plastics business to Daicel

LYB launches PP impact copolymer for high performance applications

Syensqo launches low-density HPPA for consumer electronics industry

Mitsubishi researching new antithrombogenic TPE for medical device use

Prices for PE, PP, PS and PVC flat to down, PET an outlier

This Week in History

October 27, 1938: DuPont officially unveils a new product called “Nylon” to the public

October 30, 1956: Robert Neal MacDonald at DuPont is granted a patent for acetal homopolymer

November 1, 1984: The model year 1985 Chevrolet Cavalier becomes the first vehicle to have front and rear bumper fascias made from TPO. The material was Himont ETA3041

November 1, 2023: DuPont sells its Delrin brand acetal business to private equity firm TJC

Weekly News Digest: October 20, 2025

Trelleborg, Celanese reinvent ball joint boots

Syensqo unveils lightweight polyamide for electronics

Kraiburg develops TPE series for contact with fatty foods

INEOS to close to production sites in Germany

This Week in History

October 24, 1911: Nathaniel C Wyeth who patented the PET bottle in 1973 was born.

October 25, 2013: Celanese announces that the Ticona company name will be removed from its polymer products, such as Celcon brand acetal, and replaced with the Celanese company name. Ticona was formed in 1963 as a joint venture between Celanese Corporation of America and Hoechst AG.

Weekly News Digest: October 13, 2025

Trinseo shutting plants in Europe due to market challenges

NNA Polymers to build polyacrylamide plant in Texas

Borealis expands XLPE production in Sweden

Dow’s Freeport Texas plant suffers fire

Asahi Kasei expands healthcare materials portfolio

Syensqo launches orange PPS grade for extruded busbars

OQ launches PP random copolymer for water piping

Celanese unveils several new materials at K Show

Weekly News Digest: October 6, 2025

LyondellBasell expands Purell medical-grade polymer portfolio to North America

Nova Chemicals launches new fluoropolymer free PE grades

Clariant rejects damage claims from BP and ExxonMobil over ethylene cartel infringement

BASF launches polyamide with high water permeability

SABIC to launch non-fluorinated resins for wire and cable applications

Improve your melt flow tests with smarter plastometers

The Plastics Industry Association and the Society of Plastics Engineers are merging

PTXPO 2026 opens registration