Commodity Resins
Prices of the Five Commodity Resins Largely Flat
While price initiatives for PE and PVC were underway, resin prices had rollover potential for first two months of 2024, perhaps with the exception of PET.
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At NPE2024, Follow These Megatrends in Materials and Additives
Offerings range from recycled, biobased, biodegradable and monomaterial structures that enhance recyclability to additives that are more efficient, sustainable and safer to use.
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SPE 2023 Automotive Awards Highlight ‘Firsts’ and Emerging Technologies
Nods given to several ‘firsts’ as well as rapidly emerging technologies with sustainability nearly always a major theme.
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Expanded Sustainable Portfolio of PVC Resins
INEOS Inovyn’s two new products are Neovyn, with a 37% lower carbon footprint and Recovyn, made from 100% recycled carbon feedstock.
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Prices for All Volume Resins Head Down at End of 2023
Flat-to-downward trajectory for at least this month.
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Low-Smoke, Non-Halogen Polyolefinic Compound for Armored Cables
Avient’s latest addition to its ECCOH portfolio is designed to prevent environmental stress cracking in low- and medium-voltage cable sheathing.
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Recycled PPC Gives Second Life to Fishing Nets as Injection Molding Grade Resin
LyondellBasel introduces plastic mechanically recycled from end-of-life marine gear.
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Prices Flat for PE, PVC, Up for PP and PS, Down for PET
A mixed bag, though prices likely to be down if not flat for all this month.
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Imagine A World Where Polymers Were First
One reason for the disproportionate attention that plastics receive in the environmental conversation is that they are newcomers. Perhaps if we had been relying on them for thousands of years, we’d view them differently.
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Borealis, TotalEnergies Start Up Baystar PE Joint Venture
New unit brings Borealis’ proprietary Borstar PE technology to North America and completed the partners’ integrated petrochemicals venture
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