Lilli Manolis Sherman

Lilli Manolis Sherman Contributing Editor

Commodity Resins

OTC Medicine Bottles Made with Less Plastic

With new barrier technology, GSK Consumer Healthcare aims to have transitioned to more sustainable bottles for its Advil portfolio by 2022.

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Inovyn Launches Website for Bio-Attributed PVC

Inovyn’s Biovyn is said to be the world’s first commercially available bio-attributed PVC.

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BASF Issues Price Increases for Caprolactam, Nylon 6 & Copolymer

Increases reflect tight supply and increased demand.

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Additives

Cimbar Performance Minerals Acquires Tor Minerals

Acquisition expands Cimbar’s offerings in specialty minerals including flame retardants and TiO2.

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sustainability

New Safety Requirements for Granulators, Strand Pelletizers and Dicers

PLASTICS’ Machinery Safety Standards Committee has released a new ANSI/PLASTICS B151.11 standard.  

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sustainability

Ineos Styrolution, Recycling Technologies and Trinseo Reach Milestone in Plans to Build Commercial PS Recycling Plants

Pilot plant to be built next year in the U.K. using Recycling Technologies’ depolymerization solution.

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Recycling

Pure Loop Expands Service Offering for Customers in North America

  Erema’s subsidiary Pure Loop expands footprint with the delivery of an ISEC evo 302 recycling machine here.

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Additives

SI Issues Price Increase on Plastics Additives

Price hike is in response to changing market conditions and to ensure  security of supply.    

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Biopolymers

Start-Up Company to Accelerate Development of Renewable Feedstocks

Trillium Renewable Chemicals to advance technology for production of such feedstocks as acrylonitrile for use in ABS and other plastics.

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SI Group Adds China Location to Manufacture Weston 705

Production startup of SI Group’s proprietary liquid antioxidant scheduled for May 2021.

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Additives

Heartland Industries to Open Industrial Hemp Processing Facility

With financing from Bank of Ann Arbor, Heartland’s facilities will process 1.5 million lb/yr of industrial hemp for automotive, plastics and packaging industries.

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