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News Digest 12/27/2017
Ravago acquires Polymer Technology & Services LLC
Conventus develops materials for firearm applications
Celanese to acquire Omni Plastics
Weekly Resin Report: Year-end lull in in spot resin market punctuated by another PE price slide
PP & PET prices up in November
Material suppliers see increased stock prices for 2017
Markets for PE, PP look beyond 2017 for growth and new capacity
Nexeo to carry additional Santoprene grades for 2018
US December PP contracts settle with a price increase
News Digest 12/18/2017
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News Digest 12/4/2017
SABIC develops ultra-high melt strength polypropylene
Solvay develops carbon fiber filled PEEK for medical applications
Weekly Resin Report: The market remains bearish as processors await lower prices
Clariant shareholders demand that the company reassess its strategy after failure of merger
Prices on the rise for PP, Nylon and recycled pet
Deltech introduces new grades of polystyrene
LyondellBasell invests in Dutch recycler
With the exception of PP, commodity resins prices flat to down
News Digest 11/27/2017
Lanxess to open new compounding facility in China
Weekly Resin Report: Processors limit purchases and work down inventories as prices remain elevated
Most commodity resin prices rise in October
Braskem-Idesa joint venture PE plant in Mexico ramps up to over 80% capacity
Chase now distributing materials from 3 sites in mexico
Chevron restarting major PE unit production in Houston
Dow restarts major PP and PE units in Houston
Lanxess raising prices for nylon and PBT
Ampacet invests in new capacity in Europe
News Digest 11/20/2017
Ineos Styrolution partners with Pyrowave in polystyrene recycling project
Italian firm opens carpet recycling facility in Arizona
PolyPlastics offers low VOC grades of acetal for automotive interior applications
Weekly Resin Report: PE supplies improve as storm related premiums erode
Teknor Apex introduces new roto-molding grades
M Holland acquires T&T Marketing
Lanxess eyes record year with 35% increase in earnings
Where is Zytel now? Back in Wilmington
News Digest 11/13/2017
Weekly Resin Report: Prices continue to slide as business returns to normal
Ascend to increase nylon 66 production
M. Holland committed to growth in Latin America
Asahi Kasei to open compounding plant in Mexico in 2020
Techmer PM to open compounding plant in Mexico
Firm to upward pricing still dominates commodity resins, but…
DowDuPont boosts production of Zytel HTN compounds in Belgium
Chevron Phillips celebrates startup of US Gulf Coast PE plant
ELIX Polymers partners with T&P Plastic for ABS distribution in the Balkans
Braskem’s US PP operating rate slides to 92% in third quarter
News Digest 11/6/2017
Foster Corp introduces new line of SMMA for medical applications
Weekly Resin Report: Commodity-grade PE resins experience price erosion
M&G puts unfinished PET plant in Corpus Christi Texas on the market
Braskem denies rumor that LyondellBasell has made offer to purchase it
Trinseo reports third quarter results
A Schulman reports fiscal fourth quarter results
News Digest 10/30/2017
Sales flat for A. Schulman but returns to profitability
ARC Resin opens new larger distribution center
LyondellBasell considers PP expansion in US
ExxonMobil adds new Santoprene grades
Recycling company’s warehouse burns in WV
Clariant and Huntsman merger called off
Production begins at new Solvay plant in Mexico
Weekly Resin Report: Will new petrochemical plants and reactors coming online bring price relief?
Solvay launches highly heat stabilized grades of nylon
Upwards movement for commodity resin prices
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