Weekly News Digest: March 23, 2026

Lanxess cutting jobs and reducing hours

Netflix’s ‘The Plastic Detox’ is a hatchet job

Arkema to boost Kynar PVDF production in China

Kraton raises prices worldwide

SABIC launches PCR based PC copolymers for automotive applications

Eastman increases polyester and copolyester prices

Envalior launches impact modified pa6 for rotational molding of tank liners

This Week in History

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

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

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