polyolefins
Flat or Slipping
Prices of most commodity resins were flat or slipping downhill in February and March.
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Pricing Update - March 2006
PE, PS, and PVC prices remained flat or softened further in February, aided by slack demand and lower feedstock costs.
Read MoreFiberfil Is Back
Fiberfil Engineered Plastics Inc., Stoney Creek, Ont., is a new firm that purchased the filled and reinforced PP ´óÏó´«Ã½ and Stoney Creek plant from DSM Engineering Plastics, Evansville, Ind.
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After a Soft Start, Prices Are Firming
Polyolefin prices sledded downhill in December, while PVC skated on flat resin tabs.
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SPE Automotive Awards Highlight Materials and Processing Advances
What’s new in plastics on cars?
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High-Melt-Strength PP Makes Softer, Lighter Foams
A new high-melt-strength (HMS) polypropylene is said to be especially suited to foam extrusion because it makes much softer foams than other HMS-PP grades.
Read More50 Ideas That Changed Plastics
Very few readers of this issue can remember, or even imagine, what it was like when an injection molding machine did not have a screw, but only a smooth-bore plunger.
Read MoreNew Irradiated Polyethylenes Boost Processing and Performance
For decades, makers of polyethylene wire and cable, shrink tubing, hot and cold water piping, sheet, and foam have used radiation crosslinking to enhance the thermal and mechanical properties of their products.
Read MoreUnusual TPOs Displace Other Plastics In Hard and Soft Auto Parts
The advance of TPOs into new interior and exterior automotive applications was the theme of the latest annual Automotive TPO Global Conference, sponsored by the Society of Plastics Engineers in Dearborn, Mich.
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