Materials
Resin Buying Strategies - September 2010: Prices May Stabilize… Briefly
Prices of commodity resins, except for polypropylene, fell a bit more last month.
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K 2010 Preview, Materials Higher Performance, Better Processing, And Now Sustainability Share Spotlight at K
The K 2010 show will present new plastics materials for a wide range of industries, which makes it hard to generalize, but a few markets stand out prominently: packaging, medical, automotive, and electronic equipment.
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Resin Buying Strategies - August 2010: Commodity Resins Still Falling
The steady decline in commodity resin prices continued last month and into August.
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Materials Additives & Blends Take PLA Upscale
The second conference on biopolymers hosted by NatureWorks testified to the burgeoning interest in this new field of plastics.
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Resin Buying Strategies: Commodity Resin Prices Down
Prices of four major commodity resins continued to drop last month, albeit at a somewhat lesser velocity than in May.
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Materials at NPE 2003
The footprint of thermoplastic materials suppliers at this year’s NPE is going to be fainter than usual.
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No End to Resin Price Hikes
Although the worst may be over in soaring oil and natural-gas prices, recent hikes are still percolating through the petrochemical derivatives supply chain. So there鈥檚 no slowdown in commodity-resin price hikes, and engineering resins are going up too鈥攕ome of them for the first time in more than two years.
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Novel High-Temperature Nylon Debuts
A new class of semi-aromatic, high-temperature nylons is being introduced to the U.S. by Kuraray America in N.Y.C.
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Resin Prices Are Soaring
Volatile energy and petrochemical feedstock prices, unsettled by events in Venezuela and the Middle East, are having a predictable effect on resin prices. Price hikes in almost all resins are coming thick and fast, making it hard to keep track of current market prices.
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How to Injection Mold Cyclic Olefin Copolymers
This new family of clear engineering thermoplastics made its first big splash in extrusion, but now injection molders are learning how to process these amorphous resins into optical and medical parts.
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