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- High-Flow Nylon Carries the Load in New Fork-Lift Truck
- WEB EXCLUSIVE: New I-ton hand pallet truck (HPT) from Lifter S.r.l. of Italy (U.S. office in Marietta, Ga.) is the first pallet truck in the world made of nonmetallic material.
Article Published: 5/1/2012
- Another Big Backer for Biobased PEF Bottles
- WEB EXCLUSIVE: Avantium in the Netherlands has signed its second major partnership for using its new catalytic process to convert plant sugars into furanic precursors for a new polyester bottle resin.
Article Published: 5/1/2012
- Chevron Phillips Announces PE Plant Location
- WEB EXCLUSIVE: Chevron Phillips Chemical Co., The Woodlands, Tex., has chosen a site near its Sweeny facility in Old Ocean, Tex., for two new polyethylene plants to accompany a planned 3.3-billion-lb/yr ethane cracker at Cedar Bayou in Baytown, Tex.
Article Published: 5/1/2012
- Bayer to Buy Arkema’s PC Sheet Business
- Bayer MaterialScience, Pittsburgh, will acquire the U.S. polycarbonate sheet business of Arkema Inc., Philadelphia.
Article Published: 4/29/2012
- Price Relief in Commodity Resins
- Combination of slowed global demand, build-up in resin suppliers’ inventories, and projected drops in feedstock prices are expected to provide some price relief at least through the second quarter.
Article Published: 4/28/2012
- MATERIALS AT NPE: All Market Sectors Benefit from Large Crop of New Materials
- Higher-performance and easier processing PE film resins for packaging, a one-pass crosslinked PE for photovoltaic (PV) wire and cable, several higher-performing nylons and TPEs, “greener” plastics, and enhanced styrenic and PC resins are...
Article Published: 4/28/2012
- Wood-Plastics Composites Done Right
- Mixing and extruding wood fiber in a plastic matrix is technically demanding. It requires careful attention to formulation, drying, and extrusion temperatures
Article Published: 4/26/2012
- New Supplier of Rigid PVC Compounds
- WEB EXCLUSIVE: Sylvin Technologies Inc., Denver, Pa., a compounder of flexible and semi-rigid PVC, has now expanded into rigid PVC compounds.
Article Published: 4/9/2012
- Automotive Drives Injection Overmolding of Composite Sheet
- The drive for weight savings in the auto industry has spawned a growing range of applications for overmolding of so-called “organic sheet composites.” These are continuous-fiber fabrics preimpregnated with thermoplastic resin (usually ny...
Article Published: 3/29/2012
- PPA Moves into Gearshift Levers
- WEB EXCLUSIVE: Vestamid HT plus polyphthalamide (PPA) from Evonik Industries High Performance Polymers in Germany (in the U.S., Evonik Degussa Corp., Parsippany, N.J.), is being used in gearshift lever parts for a major European auto company.
Article Published: 3/29/2012
