POLYPROPYLENE
AKRON, OHIO — A. Schulman Inc.'s busy week of acquisition, job cuts and plans to sell its Australian compounding plant is featured in this week's Material Insights video. Also featured is news of a 1-cent decline in North American polypropylene pricing.
AKRON, OHIO — North American polypropylene prices took a 1-cent dip in May — far less than the declines seen in the previous two months.
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 — As a plastic material, polypropylene has undergone a shift in price structure and now is competing based on its properties.
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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