polyolefins
Exxon Adds Production of HDPE Molding Grades to Texas
HDPEs for pales and crates to be produced in Beaumont as well as Canada.
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New HDPE Grade for Mono-Material Machine Direction Oriented Films
Exxon introduced HD7165L for MDO film applications designed for recyclability.
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Flexible-Film Processor Optimizes All-PE Food Packaging
Tobe Packaging’s breakthrough was to create its Ecolefin PE multilayer film that could be applied with a specialized barrier coating.
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Nova Chemicals Announces Mechanical PE Recycling Facility
Indiana site expected to process over 100 million pounds of PE annually.
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Dairy Product Company to Release All-PE Film Pouch in China
Dow announced that Mengniu is developing a recyclable yogurt pouch using its INNATE TF-BOPE resin.
Read MoreMetal-Replacement PP Compounds for Sheet, Thermoforming
Resins are also said to offer options to compression and injection molding for forming form large, complex structural parts.
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Soft Prices for Volume Resins
While PP and PE prices may be bottoming out, a downward trajectory was likely for all other volume resins, including engineering types.
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Matte Colorless Masterbatch for Gloss Reduction
Ampacet’s Muted Matte PE compound said to deliver cost-effective and sustainable gloss reduction in HDPE and PP multilayer applications.
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Commodity Resin Prices Flat to Lower
Major price correction looms for PP, and lower prices are projected for PE, PS, PVC and PET.
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Polyethylene Innovations Abound for Films, Conduit
Highlights of the 2023 SPE Polyolefins Conference include a novel HDPE for oriented films, high-performance recycled LDPE and LLDPE film resins, and a bimodal HDPE for conduits.
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