End Markets
New Vehicle Sales at All-Time High
Yet production is growing at a slower pace, a trend that is likely to continue.
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PE, PP March Into March with Upward Pricing
PetroChemWire shares its current outlook on polyolefin prices with polyolefins pointing higher.
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How2Recycle Label Changing Recycling Habits
The How2Recycle Label program finished its soft launch in early 2012 and now has more than 60 participating companies and brands and is growing every month.
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Artificial Joints Make Strides with 3D Printing
Metal parts are made by laser sintering, and plastic prototypes are made by inkjet or FDM processes. Plastic production parts could be next.
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Q&A with Bill Carteaux of Plastics Industry Association
Industry outlook, Trump’s impact on trade, NPE 2018 progress update, the West region’s import on plastics and the association’s rebranding discussed.
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Chinaplas 2017 Focuses on Industry 4.0, Design and Medical Plastics
Chinaplas 2017 (May 16-19, China Import and Export Fair Complex, Pazhou, Guangzhou) will once again host three concurrent conferences along with its massive exhibition.
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Suppliers Team to Run Precision Teflon Tubing at Medical Show
Apart from the triennial K Show, extrusion system suppliers don鈥檛 operate lines at trade fairs that much anymore.
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Sidel’s Lightweight Bottle Design; An Example of Resin Savings
The current upward trajectory of PET prices makes such designs more attractive.
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