MATERIALS: Olefin Block Copolymers for More Elastic Blown Films

WEB EXCLUSIVE: The Hygiene and Medical business of Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Mich., has introduced new grades of its high-molecular weight Infuse OBCs (Olefin Block Copolymers) for blown films.
New Product Announcements Published: 5/1/2013

MATERIALS: Long-Glass PP Boasts Improved Impact & Lower Cost

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Asahi Kasei Plastics, Fowlerville, Mich, has new long-glass reinforced PP that is said to surpass the impact strength of competing grades while offering 20% lower cost.
New Product Announcements Published: 3/1/2013

MATERIALS: Clarified PP Grades for Packaging, Housewares, Cups

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Six new clarified PP grades for injection molding, blow molding, and thermoforming are available from Houston-based Phillips 66.
New Product Announcements Published: 1/1/2013

MATERIALS: Biocomposite Uses ‘Green’ HDPE

WEB EXCLUSIVE: RheTech, Inc., offers a new grade of RheVision biocomposite using sugar cane-based HDPE supplied by Brazil’s Braskem (U.S. office in Philadelphia, Pa.). The initial product is RheTech’s first “green biocomposite,&rdq...
New Product Announcements Published: 12/4/2012

MATERIALS: PP Copolymer Makes Debut in Thin-Wall Food Packaging

WEB EXCLUSIVE: A new PP random copolymer from Austria’s Borealis (U.S. office at Borealis Compounds in Port Murray, N.J.), offers excellent flowability for high-speed, thin-wall food packaging.
New Product Announcements Published: 8/3/2012

MATERIALS: Dairy-Grade HDPE for High-Throughput Blow Molding

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Total Refining & Chemicals’ Polymers Div. in Belgium (parent of Total Petrochemicals in Houston), has introduced a new HDPE with 0.962 density and low viscosity (MI2 of 2.1 g/10min) compared with standard HDPE bottle grades ...
New Product Announcements Published: 8/3/2012

MATERIALS: High-Flow PP Random Copolymer for Packaging

 WEB EXCLUSIVE: Borealis Polymers N.V. in Mechelen, Belgium, has introduced RJ901MO for thin-wall packaging and housewares such as storage boxes and CD/DVD cases.
New Product Announcements Published: 4/9/2012

MATERIALS: New Bioplastic Compounds for Durables

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Two compounders recently launched new grades of compounds based on biopolymers or on biofiber reinforcements.
New Product Announcements Published: 2/29/2012

MATERIALS: Borealis Medical & Packaging Materials on Display at NPE

Injection molders vising the show in Orlando will have a chance to become better acquainted with application-tailored polyolefins from Borealis of Vienna, Austria.
New Product Announcements Published: 2/29/2012

MATERIALS: New Blow Molding Resins at SPE Conference

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Two new materials were presented at the recent SPE Annual Blow Molding Conference in Chicago.
New Product Announcements Published: 12/1/2011