Resin Price Report: PE prices hold steady, PP drops another 2 cents
The Plastics Exchange Market Update: March 29, 2024
Dow introduces polyolefin elastomer based leather alternative
Lotte develops translucent PP compounds for automotive applications
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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
Weekly News Digest: March 25, 2024
Resin Price Report: PE, PP prices retreat as buyers mount resistance
The Plastics Exchange Market Update: March 15, 2024
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
Weekly News Digest: March 18, 2024
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
Weekly News Digest: March 11, 2024
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
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.
Weekly News Digest: March 4, 2024
Resin Price Report: PE price increase now uncertain
The Plastics Exchange Market Update: February 23, 2024
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.
Weekly News Digest: February 26, 2024
Resin Price Report: Emboldened sellers push for nickel increase on PE
The Plastics Exchange Market Update: February 19, 2024
Mitsubishi develops foaming PBT resin with ultra-low specific gravity
Kraiburg TPE launches new recycled content TPE grades for automotive applications
Chase Plastics to distribute Envalier (DSM Lanxess merger) materials
This Week in History
February 27, 1856: German chemist Alfred Einhorn was born. He is believed to have created polycarbonate in a laboratory in 1989. He also invented Novacain.
February 28, 1935: DuPont chemist Wallace Carothers invents nylon 66.
Weekly News Digest: February 19, 2024
Resin Price Report: Buyers reluctantly adjust to escalating prices
The Plastics Exchange Market Update: February 9, 2024
Trinseo’s stock tumbles to record low
INEOS Styrolution announces new authorized distributors in North America
DOMO Chemical develops high-purity PA aimed at hydrogen fuel cells
This Week in History
February 20, 1987: US regulators approve acquisition of Celanese Corporation of America by West German company Hoechst AG.
February 25, 1928: Shi Wen Long, the founder of Chi Mei Corporation, which is the world’s largest producer of ABS, was born in Tainan Taiwan.
Weekly News Digest: February 12, 2024
Resin Price Report: February brings out the bulls
The Plastics Exchange Market Update: February 2, 2024
Let’s raise a red solo cup to Toby Keith
SABIC extends portfolio of non-PTFE lubricated materials
ALBIS to distribute Rohm’s PMMA and PMMI in Turkey and North Africa
Ascend introduces new polymers for medical applications
This Week in History
February 16, 1901: John Rex Whinfield, who patented PET fiber in 1949, was born.
Weekly News Digest: February 5, 2024
Resin Price Report: PE holds steady, PP pricing softens
The Plastics Exchange Market Update: January 31, 2024
Peak Performance Compounding develops new compounds to replace PTFE
IMCD to distribute Rohm medical grades in Switzerland and Liechtenstein
Arkema expands its elastomers production capacity by 40%
Toray develops PE film with tensile strength comparable to stainless steel
INEOS Styrolution introduces new MBS grade for electronics component packaging
Covestro develops new high heat polycarbonate for medical applications
INEOS Styrolution announces new authorized distribution network for the US and Canada
Bamberger AMCO Polymers to distribute BASF materials
This Week in History
February 11, 1942: DuPont ceases manufacturing nylon stockings and transitions to parachute production for WWII
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