Materials

Elastomers

TPEs for Fatty-Food-Contact Applications

Avient’s new Versaflex family complies with migration limit standards in North America and Europe.  

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Sustainable Nylons from PCR and PIR Recovery

RadiciGroup’s new Renycle line of nylon 6 and 66 now part of Matmatch online platform.

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Alpek Concludes Acquisition of Octal

Alpek in incorporating high-value PET sheet business into its portfolio through this acquisition.

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Commodity Resins

Mixed Pricing Outlook for Commodity Resins for Spring 2022

Prices of PE, PS may have peaked; they were slightly down for PP and PET, up for PVC.  

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Additive Supplier, Film Processor Get Grant to Advance Multilayer Film Recycling

Interface Polymers and Flexipol awarded $1 million+ grant to provide fully recyclable LDPE multilayer packaging.

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Elastomers

Foster Adds Specialty TPU and TPU Alloy Products to its Arsenal of Healthcare Materials

AdvanSource Biomaterials’ specialty TPU materials are used in application  segments such as cardiology, orthopedics, drug delivery, endoscopy, wound care, urology, and neurology.  

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sustainability

CJ BIO and NatureWorks Working Towards a Master Collaboration Agreement to Commercialize Novel Biopolymers

The two companies have agreed to collaborate on creating advanced products based on industry-leading Ingeo PLA and Phact PHA technologies to meet growing demand for sustainable materials across a broad  array of markets  

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Additives

Chemours Leads Remove2Reclaim Project to Advance Plastic Circularity

Project aims to develop commercial-scale detection and extraction technologies that enable the removal and recovery of TiO2 and polymers for reuse.  

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Postconsumer

TotalEnergies and New Hope Energy Partner on U.S. Advanced Recycling Project

New Hope Energy will build the plant that will transform end-of-life plastic waste into a recycled feedstock that Total Energies will purchase and convert into virgin-quality polymers.

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PBT for Sensitive Automotive Electronics in Extremely Challenging Environments

BASF’s Ultradur B4335G3 HR HSP boasts a unique combination of different properties such as outstanding hydrolysis resistance and good flowability

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