polyolefins
Prices Flat-to-Down for All Volume Resins
This month’s resin pricing report includes PT’s quarterly check-in on select engineering resins, including nylon 6 and 66.
Lilli Manolis Sherman
Contributing Editor, Plastics Technology Magazine
ExxonMobil Develops High-Performance, 95% PE Recyclable Thermoformed Packaging
The packaging solution involved a collaboration with equipment suppliers Hosokawa Alpine and Multivac Group.
Read MoreBraskem Selected to Negotiate Federal Funding Award to Expand UHMWPE
By driving innovation for Braskem’s ‘Utec’ UHMWPE, the project would strengthen the lithium-ion battery value chain in the U.S.
Read MoreExxonMobil Launches New Materials Portfolio Brand
The Signature Polymers brand, which includes all polyolefins, is focused on delivering best-in-class service and partnership.
Read MoreIndustrial Research Project to Advance Mechanical Recycling of Flexible Polyethylene
The RWTH Aachen University’s Plastics Institute will coordinate an industrial project titled Loopcycling.
Read MoreGlass Fiber-Reinforced PP With PCR For Automotive
Borcycle GD3600SY will appear in Peugeot vehicles.
Read MoreNova Chemicals Attains FDA Letter for Mechanically Recycled LLDPE
RLLDPE product will be marketed for applications including food packaging.
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Italian Machine Builders Bandera, Macchi Running Film Lines
Five layer lines running all polyethylene as part of sustainability push.
Jim Callari
Editorial Director, Plastics Technology
Purecycle to Receive Expanded FDA Letter of No Objection for PureFive Resin
LNO expands the conditions of use for which the recycled polypropylene can be used.
Read MoreRecycled PE Grades With Up to 100% PCR for Shrink Films
Dow’s new Revoloop grades was a collaboration with European shrink film manufacturer RKW Group.
Read MoreThin Wall Ultrasonic Bonding Technology for Automotive
NPE2024: Dukane’s new Ultrasonic Thin Wall welding system is well suited for welding applications of PP to PP TD25 painted parts.
Read MoreResin 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.
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Delivering Increased Benefits to Greenhouse Films
Baystar's Borstar technology is helping customers deliver better, more reliable production methods to greenhouse agriculture.
Polyethylene 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.
Read MoreThin 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.
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Heartland Polymers, North America’s Newest PP, Producer Makes NPE Debut
NPE2024: The only Canadian-based PP producer operates its inland complex just east of Edmonton, Alberta.
Lilli Manolis Sherman
Contributing Editor, Plastics Technology Magazine
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.
Read MoreTop 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.
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.
Read MoreTop 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.
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