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Volume Resin Prices Down-to-Flat Going into First Quarter of 2020
Prices of polyolefins, PS, PVC could bottom out; PET, nylon 6 could drop further while flat to modestly down trajectory projected for ABS, PC, and nylon 66.
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Materials Knowledge Pays Off at Teel Plastics
Well-equipped and well-staffed testing lab elevates competence of custom processor.
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2019 Ends with Lower Prices for Commodity Resins
Global demand slowdown and oversupply end the year with a buyers’ market.
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Lower Prices for Five Volume Commodity Resins
Global demand slowdown and in some cases oversupply are ending the year with a buyers’ market.
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Recyclable All-PE Pouches: Sustainable Opportunity for Film Extruders
Sustainability and the Circular Economy are both a challenge and an opportunity to flexible packaging producers. Recyclable pouches based on all-PE multilayer structures, utilizing new resins and perhaps techniques like MDO or biaxial orientation, appear to be major contenders against glass, metal, and multi-material film structures.
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Texas A&M & Teysha Technologies Team Up to Advance Research into Sustainable Polycarbonate
The ‘plug-and-play’ technology utilizes bio-sourced feedstocks.
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K 2019 Slideshow: New Resins, New Applications in Materials
Ascend, Borealis, Borouge, Braskem, Dow, ExxonMobil, Nova, SABIC, and Solvay came to Düsseldorf with new applications, including pouches, shrink film, cable ties, flip tops, all-plastic bikes, as well as new materials.
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K 2019: Materials Matter at the Messe
—Lanxess announced that it is breaking ground in deploying artificial intelligence (AI) in the development of customized high-performance plastics through its collaboration with AI company Citrine Information.
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Dow to Launch "Award-Winning" Optical Finishes for All-PE High-Gloss Packaging at K 2019
The new Opolux HGT enables redesigning packaging for recyclability while featuring remarkable heat resistance and exceptional appearance.
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Permanent Labeling Technology for LSE Polyolefin Parts Further Expanded
MIGs’ innovative VersaFlex Labeling System can be used for decorating blow molded, injection molded, thermoformed and rotationally molded polyolefin products,
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DOMO, Covestro and Circularise Partner on Full Plastics Traceability
Innovative start-up Circularise says transparency can be achieved through a blockchain technology.
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Downward Pricing Pressure for Commodity Resins this Quarter
Slowed demand, sufficient supplies, lower global prices could serve to push down prices of most commodity resins.
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