POLYETHYLENE
AKRON, OHIO — A recent drop in North American PET bottle resin prices is featured in this week's Material Insights video. Also this week, we report on polyethylene supply issues impacting two material firms, as well as news that sustainable chemicals maker BioAmber Inc. raised $80 million in an initial public offering of its stock.
HOUSTON — Materials supplier First PolyChem LLC is helping meet the growing resin needs of North Africa and the Middle East through its relationships with resin makers around the world.
AKRON, OHIO — As expected by resin buyers, the 4-cent price hike that hit non-film grades of North American polyethylene in February was seen by film grades in March.
ADDISON, ILL. — Rollprint Packaging Inc. is investing $1.25 million in a multi-configuration pouch manufacturing line to make products primarily for sterile medical applications.
HOUSTON — Global polyethylene demand growth is expected to ramp up fairly soon, averaging almost 5 percent annually between 2012 and 2017.
AKRON, OHIO -- February was a rocky month for North American commodity resin prices, with PVC prices up, polystyrene prices down and a price increase hitting some grades of polyethylene.
SALEM, MASS. -- U.S. Aragonite Enterprises LLC has commercialized a one-gallon milk container that uses the firm's all-natural Oshenite-brand calcium carbonate additive.
WHEELING, W. VA. -- As an unlikely headline, "Polyethylene plant to open in West Virginia" isn't quite "Man bites dog" -- but it's pretty close.
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 this week's Plastics News resin pricing chart.
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.
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