Commodity Resins
The Promise of "4D Printing"
MIT scientist is shaping the next development to 3D printing: 4D printing, where the fourth dimension is time.
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Foreign PE Investments Underway in North America
Ineos technology to star at two new U.S. HDPE plants and two in Mexico.
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Two Dow Flexible Packaging Technologies Among R&D 100 Awards
Both the PE Stand-Up Pouch and PacXpert bottles are making commercial advances globally.
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Takeaway from IHS Presentation on PE Outlook
IHS expects flat prices to end the year, followed by one increase in Q1 2016, and lower prices in Q2 and Q3.
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New Family of High-Performancen Packaging LLDPE-Like Resins
Dow's just announced Innate Precision Packaging Resins boast unmatched abuse resistance and excellent processability.
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Why & When Should You Re-Crystallize PET Scrap?
Whether you’re blow molding PET bottles or extruding APET sheet, you’ll produce amorphous scrap in the process. How you handle it will impact your production costs. Re-crystallizing it will help.
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Speed to Market: Pretium Stays Light on Its Feet And Ahead of the Pack
A visit to its largest PET plant illustrates how this versatile blow molder leverages design skills, a can-do attitude, and a high degree of production flexibility to supply custom products in ever-shorter time windows. A new thrust into automation will help pick up the pace.
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Evonik Invests in Thermoplastic Composite Pipelines
New pipelines feature inner plastic pipe covered with a composite of unidirectional tapes which are then sheathed by the plastic--HDPE, PP, nylon 12, and PEEK can be used.
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