Commodity Resins
Ten Tips to Slash Cycles in PET Preform Molding
Here are some tricks of the trade to make your preform processing more productive, even if you don’t have the latest souped-up press.
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Developing Tomorrow’s Containers: Inside Amcor’s R&D Center
How award-winning package design, full-service laboratory facilities, and game-changing process development support a world-class injection and blow molder.
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Resin Prices May Have Bottomed Out
With continued declines in feedstock and energy costs through much of the first quarter, commodity and engineering resin prices fell too.
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Specialty Olefinic TPE For High-End Cast Power Pre-Stretch Films
ExxonMobil's new Vistamaxx 6000 making a debut at NPE is designed for use in the functional layer of cast power pre-stretch films.
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A.Schulman To Acquire Citadel Plastics
In yet another acqusition, A.Schulman marks a significant strategic milestone as it continues to transform itself.
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ExxonMobil To Host Seminars On Packaging & Stretch Film
Another major material supplier, ExxonMobil Chemicals, to host seminars on market trends and product innovations.
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PE Prices Bottom Out? PP Prices Move Up!
Not a surprise: The volatility of PE and PP prices is on a roll.
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MATERIALS AND ADDITIVES AT NPE: Spotlight on Performance, Economy, and Sustainability
Lots of news in engineering thermoplastic compounds, TPEs, and purging agents, plus a wide range of colorants and additives.
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Commodity Resin Prices Drop More
Global feedstock and resin prices appear to be bottoming out, though PP tags might inch up.
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Engineered PP Compounds, TPO, Key In Grand Award Winner Of SPE Auto Innovation Awards
Advanced Composites PP compounds and Mitsubishi Chemical's TPO starred in the 2014 Grand Award winner of SPE's Automotive Innovation Awards. '
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