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April 21, 2014 2:16 pm ETPower outage at a PE plant and the return of a PVC feedstock plant after a fire on this week's Material Insights.
Power outage at a PE plant and the return of a PVC feedstock plant after a fire on this week's Material Insights.
Let's hope that North American PVC resin buyers have their seatbelts fastened. Prices for that material shot up 3 cents per pound for the third straight month in March. We'll talk about that, and more pricing news for PET, in today's Material Insights.
In this week's Material Insights, we discuss why North American prices for polypropylene resin ticked down another penny in March.
In today's Material Insights video, we have a report from the IHS World Petrochemical conference in Houston, plus news on a major plastics recycling closing its doors.
Lawsuits are flying between materials firm Ineos Group and state-owned Chinese oil and petrochemicals maker Sinopec. We cover that, plus highlights from last week's housewares show in Chicago, in today's Material Insights.
Put down your bracket sheets and close that ESPN window on your computer. It's time to talk about the week's top materials-related stories. This week's video includes news about PolyOne Corp, Westlake Chemical Corp. and Eastman Chemical Co.
Resin pricing activity showed no signs of slowing down in February. Details on changes for suspension PVC, solid polystyrene and PET bottle resin, plus a report from the Innovation Takes Root conference, in this edition of Material Insights.
A list of things that will never end includes the Winter of 2014 and volatility in resin pricing. Those topics merged in February as bad weather helped push through a 4-cent-per-pound price hike on all grades of polyethylene in North America.
Lego A/S is setting a target to use a sustainable resin in its signature bricks by 2030, replacing ABS. News about the eventual switch is featured in our Material Insights video.
Luxury sports car maker Aston Martin recently announced a recall of more than 17,000 cars, or roughly 75 percent of the vehicles it's made since 2007, because of counterfeit nylon resin in a throttle pedal arm made in China.
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