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- Polyone Sells PVC Resin Business, Forms New Sheet Division
- WEB EXCLUSIVE: PolyOne Corp., Cleveland, has agreed to sell its vinyl dispersion, blending, and suspension resin assets to Mexichem, S.A.B., de C.V. of Mexico.
Article Published: 4/11/2013
- Improving Twin-Screw Compounding Of Reinforced Polyolefins
- Compounders face a number of processing challenges when incorporating a high loading of low-bulk-density mineral filler into polyolefins. Here are some possible solutions.
Article Published: 3/25/2013
- New U.S. Distributor for Elix Polymers ABS
- Polymer Z, Birmingham, Mich., has been named the North American distributor of precolored ABS resins and ABS- and SAN-based polymer modifiers from Spain’s Elix Polymers.
Article Published: 2/26/2013
- New Technology Permits PVDF Foaming
- New technology from Arkema Inc., Philadelphia, allows foaming its Kynar PVDF fluoropolymers, paving the way for new applications for foam-core pipe and sheet in aerospace, aircraft, and automotive.
Article Published: 2/26/2013
- Pallets, Pellets Use Old Tires as Feedstock
- Custom injection and compression molder CTC Plastics, Dayton, Ohio, recently rolled out a line of pallets and will be supplying the resin compounds used to make them as well.
Article Published: 12/28/2012
- Biobased PHA Enhances PVC Processing & Performance
- Metabolix, Inc., Cambridge, Mass., has developed a series of biobased PHA copolymers that act as impact modifiers, flexibilizers, and processing aids for rigid and flexible PVC.
Article Published: 12/28/2012
- Glass-Like Colored COC for Pharma Packaging, Medical Devices
- WEB EXCLUSIVE: A collaboration between Clariant Masterbatches, Holden, Mass., and Topas Advanced Polymers, Florence, Ky., is bringing bright, clear colors to pharmaceutical packaging and medical devices made of TOPAS cyclic olefin copolymer (COC). C...
Article Published: 6/29/2012
- Sub-Micron Additives Make Strides (Just Don’t Say ‘Nano’)
- High-surface-area, sub-micron-size additives have been making significant commercial strides in thermoplastic applications, albeit generally later than had been expected just a decade ago.
Article Published: 6/25/2012
- Additives at NPE: Many Routes To ‘Greener’ Plastics
- Just as eco-friendliness was a major theme in materials news at the big show in April, so it was with additives.
Article Published: 5/30/2012
- PE/PS Interpolymer Modifies Polyolefins To Process Faster, Thinner, Better
- Novel hybrid of polyethylene and polystyrene acts as a processing aid for HDPE, LDPE, and PP.
Article Published: 5/29/2012
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