Dow Chemical Co. announces two big expansions of its global presence in this week's episode of Plastics News' Material Insights. Senior reporter Frank Esposito reports on Dow's plans to build a huge plastics/chemicals facility in Saudi Arabia in partnership with Saudi Aramco, and a collaboration between Dow and Matsui to create a mega-biopolymers plant in Brazil. Esposito also covers the final sentencings in the Gitto Global fraud case, and details efforts by Ecospan LLC to increase production of its BioFlow-brand bioplastic.
N. American PET bottle resin prices fall 7 cents
May 20, 2013 12:18 pm ET
