Resin Price Report: Prime PE, PP prices move higher
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Resinex to distribute Selenis medical grade PETG
Kraiburg launches new TPE grade aimed at car window shade applications
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Resin Price Report: Heightened demand leaves some buyers hanging
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PTFE free internally lubricated formulations slip into gear
LyondellBasell acquires 35% of Saudi Arabia based NATPET
DuPont to split into 3 separate companies
Lummus partners with Sumitomo Chemical to commercialize polyolefins technologies
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Resin Price Report: Houston storm a prelude to hyperactive storm season?
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BASF to increase PA and PBT capacity in India
Polyplastics launches PPS with improved thermal shock resistance
Kuraray introduces blister resistant high heat PA resin
INEOS Styrolution launches new high SAN grade
More than 50,000 registrants attended NPE2024
This Week in History
June 2, 1942: Donald Fletcher Holmes and William Edward Hanford were granted a patent on the process to manufacture TPU while working at DuPont.
June 2, 1947: Earl Tupper patents plastic resealable containers.
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Resin Price Report: Lull in resin trading during NPE
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The wide world of plastics at NPE2024
Finnish compounder, Premix prepares to open first US plant
SABIC develops new Valox PBT aimed at diabetes devices
LyondellBasell to establish new distribution hub in Hungary
LEHVOSS Group introduces new laser sintering FR PPS
Avient launches new recycled high impact nylon grades
This Week in History
May 21, 1918: Jacques Edwin Brandenberger patents cellulose film which we called Cellophane.
May 21, 2007: General Electric announces that is has sold its plastics division to SABIC.
Weekly News Digest: May 13, 2024
The Plastics Exchange Market Update: 5/3/2024
Arburg gave out cool tool boxes at NPE
The word sustainable was a bit overused at NPE but this pail was pretty cool
Lotte launches FR PP resins that delay thermal runaway in EV batteries
Kraiburg introduces new TPE for automotive sealing systems and exteriors
Prices for PE, PS, PVC, PET trending flat, PP to drop
This Week in History
May 15, 1940: The first nylon stockings were shipped to retail stores.
May 15, 1973: The PET water bottle was patented by Nathaniel C Wyeth at DuPont.
Weekly News Digest: May 6, 2024
Resin Price Report: Eager buyers stymied by tight supplies
Celanese introduces new Zytel grade aimed at metal replacement
Syensqo to build battery grade PVDF plant in Augusta GA
DOMO opens new nylon plant in China
Kraiburg introduces new TPE for automotive sealing systems and exteriors
Formerra to distribute AFC Ecoplastics compostable materials
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
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?
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
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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
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
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