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

Braskem 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.

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ExxonMobil Launches New Materials Portfolio Brand

The Signature Polymers brand, which includes all polyolefins, is focused on delivering best-in-class service and partnership.

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Industrial Research Project to Advance Mechanical Recycling of Flexible Polyethylene

The RWTH Aachen University’s Plastics Institute will coordinate an industrial project titled Loopcycling.

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Nova Chemicals Attains FDA Letter for Mechanically Recycled LLDPE

RLLDPE product will be marketed for applications including food packaging.

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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.

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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

Recycled 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.

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Thin 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.

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Resin Distributor Poised for Recycling and Electrification Trends

NPE2024: Chase Plastics offers a portfolio that includes its own sustainable brand CP Pryme Eco.

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Fundamentals 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.

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Fundamentals 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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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.

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Fundamentals 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.

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The 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.

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Thin 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  

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Reactive Recycling Additives Gets Scientific Validation

Nexam’s patented technology demonstrates ‘remarkable’ capabilities in repairing polymers degraded during recycling cycles.

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The 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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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.

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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

Top 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. 

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Top 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.

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Total 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

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Top 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.

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Top 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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Top 10 Markets for Polyethylene Film Extrusion | #5 T-Shirt 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 for polyethylene film extrusion is t-shirt bags.

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