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ATLANTA — A new container developed to store and dispense sensitive chemicals is helping plastics bounce the competition. BrightPak is a 4.6-liter, blow molded PET bottle with an inner polyethylene naphthalate liner, developed as an...

AKRON, OHIO — Plans to build a polyethylene resin plant in West Virginia are featured in this week's Material Insights video. Also this week, we report the challenges facing bioplastics maker Cereplast, as well as with news that Flow Polymers ...

MEXICO CITY -- An accumulation of methane gas was to blame for the Jan. 31 explosion that killed 37 people and injured 100 others at the headquarters of state oil company Petróleos Mexicanos, Mexico's attorney general says.

BANGKOK — Thai plastic packager Multibax Public Co. Ltd. is more than doubling capacity for its new line of biodegradable bags, based largely on strong European demand for such lower-carbon-footprint packaging.

AKRON, OHIO — A 5-cent North American polyethylene price hike is featured in this week's Material Insights video. Also this week we report a PET resin expansion from Selenis Canada Inc., as well as news of Advanced Composites Inc. increasing...

AKRON, OHIO -- North American polyethylene prices have hit the ground running in 2013, increasing an average of 5 cents per pound since Jan. 1.The increase affects all grades of high density, low density and linear low density PE and is reflected in ...

POINT COMFORT, TEXAS -- Formosa Plastics Corp. USA has been fined almost $1.5 million by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for failing to install more than 8,000 pieces of leak detection and repair equipment at its plastics and chemicals plant in Point Comfort.

MOORETOWN, ONTARIO — Nova Chemicals Corp. has restarted its low density polyethylene production unit in Mooretown, Ontario.

YUNFU, CHINA -- China's largest plastics pipe maker, China Liansu Group Holdings Ltd., is spending 116 million Chinese yuan ($18.4 million) to buy a valve manufacturing and epoxy coating factory owned by the company's chairman, Wong Luen Hei.

Around the holidays, I noticed TV ads for SodaStream International Ltd. -- the company that makes machines that allow consumers to make carbonated soft drinks at home.The ads, in part, play up SodaStream's supposed environmental benefits, namely that they reduce the use of PET bottles.But is that criticism fair -- or is this a case of greenwashing?...