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Automotive

Biobased Mold Release for PP Automotive Formulations

      Palsgaard’s Einar 201 was developed to help automotive compounders enhance the sustainability of PP formulations for class ‘A’ mold release.    

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New Product Compounds Incorporate Post Consumer Recycled Content

LyondellBasell announced the addition of eight new grades to CirculenRecover, its portfolio of mechanically recycled PP and PE.

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Commodity Resins

Exxon Adds Production of HDPE Molding Grades to Texas

HDPEs for pales and crates to be produced in Beaumont as well as Canada.  

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Commodity Resins

New HDPE Grade for Mono-Material Machine Direction Oriented Films

Exxon introduced HD7165L for MDO film applications designed for recyclability.

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sustainability

Flexible-Film Processor Optimizes All-PE Food Packaging

Tobe Packaging’s breakthrough was to create its Ecolefin PE multilayer film that could be applied with a specialized barrier coating.

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sustainability

Nova Chemicals Announces Mechanical PE Recycling Facility

Indiana site expected to process over 100 million pounds of PE annually.

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Dairy Product Company to Release All-PE Film Pouch in China

Dow announced that Mengniu is developing a recyclable yogurt pouch using its INNATE TF-BOPE resin.

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Commodity Resins

Metal-Replacement PP Compounds for Sheet, Thermoforming

Resins are also said to offer options to compression and injection molding for forming form large, complex structural parts.  

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Soft Prices for Volume Resins

While PP and PE prices may be bottoming out, a downward trajectory was likely for all other volume resins, including engineering types.  

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Matte Colorless Masterbatch for Gloss Reduction

Ampacet’s Muted Matte PE compound said to deliver cost-effective and sustainable gloss reduction in HDPE and PP multilayer applications.

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