Weekly Resin Report: Supply slowly ramps back up
The Plastics Exchange Market Update March 12, 2021
Covestro introduces new low-friction PC grades
Resin plants restarting, but supplies remain tight (Behind pay wall)
March 26, 1956: Polypropylene was patented by J. Paul Hogan at Phillips Petroleum
March 27, 1933: Polyethylene was discovered by accident at Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) in Northwich England.
Weekly Resin Report: Soaring resin costs stun buyers
The Plastics Exchange Market Update March 5, 2021
Processors hunt for resin as shortages continue
Texas freeze heats up resin prices
Analyst: We’ve never seen anything like this PP demand crunch
PP and other volume resin prices jump
Current recycled polymer price competitiveness fueling switch away from virgin material
PET recycler, Carbonlite files Chapter 11
Dow to build TPU plant in China
DuPont acquires Laird Performance Materials
Weekly Resin Report: Supply shortages and soaring prices
The Plastics Exchange Market Update 2/26/2021
Recycler planning to collect and recycle automotive bumper facias
Resin market recovery could linger through first half of 2021
Kraiburg introduces new TPE grades with very low durometers
Weekly Resin Report: Winter storms severely disrupt PE, PP production
The Plastics Exchange Market Update 2/19/2021
Texas winter storm shuts down resin production
Resin makers taking stock after Texas storm and power outage
Cold snap, tight supplies send commodity resin prices up in February
Polyplastics adds new high flow acetal grade
New Canadian PP resin plant might be for sale
March 5, 1963: The Hula Hoop, made from Phillips Petroleum polyethylene, was patented
Weekly Resin Report: February could set record for largest PP price increase in single month
The Plastics Exchange Market Update 2/12/2021
Gulf coast weather event shuts down resin manufacturing
Celanese declares force-majeure on several products
Prices still rising for volume resins
Expect resin prices to continue to rise, but not quite as steeply
Sumika Polymer Compounds expands into Poland
Lanxess to acquire Emerald Kalama Chemicals
February 28, 1935: Wallace Carothers at DuPont invents Nylon 66
Weekly Resin Report: Trading enters uncharted territory
The Plastics Exchange Market Update 2/5/2021
Resin buyers see price hikes in new year
Auto industry takes nylon prices for a ride
ExxonMobil introduces new blow molding HDPE grade with improved stress crack resistance
Asahi Kasei introduces new semi-aromatic polyamides for auto interiors
SABIC introduces new super high flow PC for automotive lighting
Total Petrochemicals plant in Laporte TX has started back up and is producing PP
Trinseo expands elastomers facility in Italy
Stepan acquires Invista polyols
Toray develops new nylon 6 based polymer based on nanoalloy technology
Evonik develops new high viscosity grade of PEEK
Acrylic impact modifiers key to enhanced Callaway golf balls
Shintech North America to bring on new PVC capacity
February 11, 1942: DuPont ceases manufacturing nylon stockings and transitions to parachute production for WWII.
Resin prices continue to hammer processors in 2021
BASF increases prices for additives
Mitsubishi expands line of carbon fiber filled materials
German researchers study antimicrobial polymers to battle anti-biotic resistant bacteria
New Santoprene grades aimed at automotive glass run channel weather seals
Dow to reduce flaring at Gulf Coast plants
Shintech adding PVC capacity in Louisiana
Avient launches new Artisan series ABS with metallic effect appearance
Eastman to build new facility to recycle PET in Tennessee
February 1, 2002: ExxonMobil becomes the sole owner of Advanced Elastomer Systems and it’s Santoprene product line
Weekly Resin Report: Uniquely challenging market
The Plastics Exchange Market Update January 15, 2021
SI Group announces price hikes on antioxidant additives
Rice University turns pyrolyzed ash into graphene
One Rock, the parent company of Nexeo, acquires European material distributor Distrupol, Here also
Federal judge dismisses suit over suspended Formosa plant permit in Louisiana
Scientists develop thermoplastic biomaterial for tissue implants
ExxonMobil launches new Santoprene R^2 TPV grades with PCR content for weatherseals
An inside look at Cannon’s Virginia ink cartridge recycling plant
New company is focused on recycling discarded fishing rope and nets
This Week in History
January 29, 1938: Paul Schlack at IG Farben invents nylon 6
Weekly Resin Report: Polypropylene resin contracts poised to jump by double digits
The Plastics Exchange Market Update 1/8/20
Price hikes bring unpleasant surprise to resin markets in December
Federal judge dismisses challenge to Formosa’s planned Louisiana complex
Saic using paint free ASA for grill on MG branded SUV
Avient expanding color concentrates plant in Vietnam
Sentencing set for former Lucent executives on fraud charges
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