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High-Temperature Nylon 66 for Blow-Molded Automotive Components
DSM has expanded its Akulon Diablo nylon porfolio for automotive air management systems.
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Milliken's PP Clarifier Receives Critical Guidance Recognition from the Association of Plastics Recyclers
Millad NX 8000 clarifying agent validated as compativle with plastic packaging recycling.
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Polyphenylsulfone with Improved Flowability
BASF’s low-visosity Ultrason P 2010 targeted to complex-shaped components in catering and aircraft industries.
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New Ownership Heads PolySource
Resin distributor’s senior leaders secure stake in company.
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2019 SPE Auto Innovation Award Winners
There were many ‘firsts’ with broad transferability.
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Volume Resin Prices Down-to-Flat Going into First Quarter of 2020
Prices of polyolefins, PS, PVC could bottom out; PET, nylon 6 could drop further while flat to modestly down trajectory projected for ABS, PC, and nylon 66.
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Materials Knowledge Pays Off at Teel Plastics
Well-equipped and well-staffed testing lab elevates competence of custom processor.
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2019 Ends with Lower Prices for Commodity Resins
Global demand slowdown and oversupply end the year with a buyers’ market.
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Lower Prices for Five Volume Commodity Resins
Global demand slowdown and in some cases oversupply are ending the year with a buyers’ market.
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Recyclable All-PE Pouches: Sustainable Opportunity for Film Extruders
Sustainability and the Circular Economy are both a challenge and an opportunity to flexible packaging producers. Recyclable pouches based on all-PE multilayer structures, utilizing new resins and perhaps techniques like MDO or biaxial orientation, appear to be major contenders against glass, metal, and multi-material film structures.
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Texas A&M & Teysha Technologies Team Up to Advance Research into Sustainable Polycarbonate
The ‘plug-and-play’ technology utilizes bio-sourced feedstocks.
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K 2019 Slideshow: New Resins, New Applications in Materials
Ascend, Borealis, Borouge, Braskem, Dow, ExxonMobil, Nova, SABIC, and Solvay came to Düsseldorf with new applications, including pouches, shrink film, cable ties, flip tops, all-plastic bikes, as well as new materials.
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