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.
Poor financial results have caught up with bioplastics maker Cereplast Inc. That, plus news from Dow Chemical and two compounding companies, are featured in this edition of Material Insights.
In spite of India’s recent economic downturn, there was optimism at the recent Plastivision trade show in Mumbai. Plastics consumption in India is expected to double by 2020, to 20 million metric tons. Major end use markets like automobiles are growing. Car production in India is expected to also double to 6 million a year in that time. Plast...
Prices for solid polystyrene and PET bottle resin were headed in different directions in January. We'll talk about why, plus catch up on materials-related highlights from last week's International Builders Show, in this edition of Material Insights.
North American prices for PVC and polypropylene resin have come charging out of the gate in 2014. Find out why in this edition of Material Insights.
Dow Chemical is receiving some unwanted attention from an unhappy shareholder. Check our Material Insights video report for news on a proposal to split the company.
DETROIT — Today's Material Insights video includes news from the North American International Auto Show, plus details behind a recent resin price hike.
Processors like to complain about volatile resin prices. But polypropylene prices were on a roller coaster throughout 2013, and they finished the year with a 4 cent-per-pound increase. Find out why in this edition of Material Insights.
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