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Resin Price Report: Resin demand heats up as summer starts

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: June 7, 2024

Tupperware shifting production from US to Mexico

Covestro introduces new line of PC copolymers

INEOS Styrolution to shutter styrene monomer plant in Sarnia Ontario Canada

Rohm to expand PMMA production at Connecticut plant

Opinion: A different perspective on plastics and the environment

LLDPE prices drop in Europe

This Week in History

June 17, 1988: Borg warner announces sale of chemical division, including Cycolac ABS to GE Plastics.

Resin Price Report: Prime PE, PP prices move higher

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: 5/31/2024

HDPE prices slip in Europe

Resinex to distribute Selenis medical grade PETG

Kraiburg launches new TPE grade aimed at car window shade applications

Resin Price Report: Heightened demand leaves some buyers hanging

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: May 24, 2024

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

Prices drop for PP, largely flat for PE, PS, PVC and PET

Concord Compounding adds 2 new Farrel continuous mixers

Resin Price Report: Houston storm a prelude to hyperactive storm season?

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: May 17, 2024

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.

Resin Price Report: Lull in resin trading during NPE

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: May 10, 2024

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

LLDPE prices tumble in Europe

LyondellBasell to establish new distribution hub in Hungary

LEHVOSS Group introduces new laser sintering FR PPS

Avient launches new recycled high impact nylon grades

In memoriam: Mike Sepe

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.

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

LDPE prices lower in Europe

Lotte launches FR PP resins that delay thermal runaway in EV batteries

Kraiburg introduces new TPE for automotive sealing systems and exteriors

That’s a wrap on NPE 2024

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.

Resin Price Report: Eager buyers stymied by tight supplies

Celanese introduces new Zytel grade aimed at metal replacement

PP prices plummet in Europe

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

Polysource to distribute Delrin products in North America

Resin Price Report: Spot PE flat, PP drops 2 more cents

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: April 19, 2024

HDPE prices down in Europe

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.

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?

LLDPE prices down in Europe

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

Resin Price Report: PP resin contracts could see double-digit discount

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: April 5, 2024

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

LDPE prices up in Europe

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