Construction

Automotive

ASTM International Standard Supports Brominated Flame Retardants in Plastics

“New standard will be a fundamental tool for assessing the potential exposure to brominated flame retardants during a product’s life cycle ...”

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Automotive

Materials: Non-Halogen, Intumescent Flame-Retardant Polyolefin Compounds

Dynamic Modifiers’ newly rebranded line of FR polyolefin compounds expanded to demanding film applications. 

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Construction

Solvay Bring Online New HALS Additives Capacity

Increased capacity of Solvay’s HALS products satisfies increased demand for UV stabilizers.

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Electronics

Toray Develops Game-Changing PPS Film for 5G Flexible Printed Circuit Boards

Toray’s Torelina biaxially-oriented PPS film balances outstanding dielectric characteristics and thermal dimensional stability.

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PVC

Materials: Full Range of Compounds for All Components in 5G Antenna Cables

Teknor’s Apex PVC, Flexalloy PVC Elastomer, and Halguard Halogen-Free Polyolefin Compounds help meet carriers’ need for control/fiber optic cable constructions.

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color

New Supplier of Color, Additives and Purging Compounds Offers Broad Portfolio

Britec Solutions’ range of products are based on innovative technologies in liquid color, purging compounds and additives for thermoplastics.

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Electronics

Elix Polymers Joins Styrenics Circular Solutions Industry Initiative

Newest member of SCS committed to recycling of styrenics into high-quality applications.

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Borealis Buys Nova's Stake in the Novealis PE Joint Venture

Bayport Polymers becomes 50/50 joint venture beween Borealis and Total.

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polystyrene

Volume Resin Prices Flat or Down

Feedstock costs are lower, supply is outpacing demand, and overall global demand has slowed.

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Packaging

Blow Molding: Something for Everyone at K Show

Packaging, industrial, continuous-extrusion, accumulator-head, injection-blow, stretch-blow, EPET, foam, sandwich co-injection—the blow molding news was wide ranging at K 2019.

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Plastics Size Reduction
Blending & Dosing