polyolefins
Delivering Increased Benefits to Greenhouse Films
How Baystar is helping customers deliver better, more reliable production methods to greenhouse agriculture.
Resin Distributor Poised for Recycling and Electrification Trends
NPE2024: Chase Plastics offers a portfolio that includes its own sustainable brand CP Pryme Eco.
Read MoreFundamentals of Polyethylene – Part 6: PE Performance
Don’t assume you know everything there is to know about PE because it’s been around so long. Here is yet another example of how the performance of PE is influenced by molecular weight and density.
Read MoreFundamentals of Polyethylene – Part 5: Metallocenes
How the development of new catalysts—notably metallocenes—paved the way for the development of material grades never before possible.
Read MorePolyethylene Fundamentals – Part 4: Failed HDPE Case Study
Injection molders of small fuel tanks learned the hard way that a very small difference in density — 0.6% — could make a large difference in PE stress-crack resistance.
Read MoreFundamentals of Polyethylene – Part 3: Field Failures
Polyethylene parts can fail when an inappropriate density is selected. Let’s look at some examples and examine what happened and why.
Read MoreThe Fundamentals of Polyethylene – Part 2: Density and Molecular Weight
PE properties can be adjusted either by changing the molecular weight or by altering the density. While this increases the possible combinations of properties, it also requires that the specification for the material be precise.
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Heartland Polymers, North America’s Newest PP, Producer Makes NPE Debut
The only Canadian-based PP producer operates its inland complex just east of Edmonton, Alberta.
Lilli Manolis Sherman
Contributing Editor, Plastics Technology Magazine
Thin Wall Injection Molding PE Portfolio Expanded
NPE 2024: NOVA Chemicals has expanded its TWIM PE offerings with Surpass IFs 730 and Ifs932 high-melt injection molding grades
Read MoreReactive Recycling Additives Gets Scientific Validation
Nexam’s patented technology demonstrates ‘remarkable’ capabilities in repairing polymers degraded during recycling cycles.
Read MoreThe Fundamentals of Polyethylene – Part 1: The Basics
You would think we’d know all there is to know about a material that was commercialized 80 years ago. Not so for polyethylene. Let’s start by brushing up on the basics.
Read MoreTop 10 Markets for Polyethylene Film Extrusion | #2 Institutional Trash Bags
Editorial director Jim Callari continues his conversation with Mastio & Co. President Kevin Huntsman, on the largest markets for Polyethylene Film Extrusion. Next on the countdown of the largest markets are industrial trash bags.
Read MoreTotal Energies Converts Feedstocks From Plastic Waste Into New Polymer at LaPorte Plant
Pyrolysis product from New Hope Energy was used to create monomer at BASF-Total Energies facility in Port Arthur, then polymerized to PP at Laporte
Read MoreTop 10 Markets for Polyethylene Film Extrusion | #3 Consumer Trash Bags
Next on the countdown of the largest markets for polyethylene film extrusion is consumer trash bags. In this segment of our countdown, we discuss this market as a whole, changes in sustainability efforts, and improvements in production.
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Fastest Growing Market for Polyethylene Film
This week, using the research Mastio & Co. has conducted, we talk about the fastest-growing market in the polyethylene film industry: e-commerce.
Top 10 Markets for Polyethylene Film Extrusion | #4 Sheet & Tubing
Editorial director Jim Callari continues his conversation with Mastio & Co. President Kevin Huntsman on the largest markets for Polyethylene Film Extrusion. Next on the countdown of the largest markets for polyethylene film extrusion is sheet and tubing.
Read MoreTop 10 Markets for Polyethylene Film Extrusion | #5 T-Shirt Bags
Editorial director Jim Callari continues his conversation with Mastio & Co. President Kevin Huntsman, on the largest markets for Polyethylene Film Extrusion. Next on the countdown of the largest markets for polyethylene film extrusion is t-shirt bags.
Read MoreTop 10 Markets for Polyethylene Film Extrusion | #6 Shrink Film
In this series, editorial director Jim Callari, talks with Mastio president, Kevin Huntsman, on the largest markets for Polyethylene Film Extrusion. This week, we discuss the 6th largest market, shrink film.
Read MoreAPR Expands Design Guide for Plastics Recyclability With Polypropylene Categories
Six new packaging categories will be eligible for third-party validation of compatibility with North American recycling programs.
Read MoreTop 10 Markets for Polyethylene Film Extrusion | #7 Consumer and Industrial Liners
Next on the countdown of largest markets for polyethylene film extrusion is liners for consumer and industrial products. These products include items such as mattress covers, wrapping for appliances and electronics, and liners for industrial boxes.
Read MoreTop 10 Markets for Polyethylene Film Extrusion | #8 Meat & Poultry
In this series, editorial director Jim Callari, talks with Mastio president, Kevin Huntsman, on the largest markets for Polyethylene Film Extrusion. This week, we discuss the 8th largest market; meat and poultry.
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Top 10 Markets for Polyethylene Film Extrusion | #1 Stretch Film
What's the largest market for polyethylene film? Over the last few weeks, Mastio & Co. President Kevin Huntsman has shared their research on the largest markets for Polyethylene Film Extrusion. This week rounds out the top 10 with the largest polyethylene film market: stretch film.
Top 10 Markets for Polyethylene Film Extrusion | #9 Agricultural Film
Editorial director Jim Callari continues his conversation with Mastio & Co president Kevin Huntsman, on the largest markets for Polyethylene Film Extrusion. Next on the countdown of largest markets for polyethylene film extrusion is agricultural film
Read MorePureCycle Begins Making Commercial Shipments of Postindustrial PP
Polypropylene resin shipments to Formerra and Milliken are first from flagship facility in Ohio.
Read MoreBorealis Acquires Recyclate Compounder Rialti
The transaction will enhance Borealis' portfolio of mechanically recycled polypropylene.
Read MoreLife Cycle Analysis Shows Pyrolysis Can Reduce Carbon Footprint of Cracking Operations
Research from Argonne National Laboratory describes greenhouse gas benefits of partially substituting pyrolysis oil for fossil fuels in the production of HDPE and LDPE.
Read MoreFood Grade PCR LLDPE Resin From Mechanically Recycled Stretch Film
Revolution announced that the FDA has issued a letter of no objection for its method of producing linear low density polyethylene from recycled stretch film.
Read MorePrices Up for PE, PP, PS, Flat for PVC, PET
Trajectory is generally flat-to-down for all commodity resins.
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