Based on a recent Association of Post-Consumer Plastic Recyclers report, roughly 974,000,000 pounds of HDPE were reused in 2011. 1 As a result, recycled HDPE has become a key raw material for many ...

density polyethylene matrices with the carbon nanotube fillers out perform aluminum in specific energy absorption, making them candidates for applications in industries like automotive. Photo Credit: ...

The end of 2016 came with more North American price drops for polyethylene and polypropylene and a surprising price hike for PET bottle resin. Regional prices for all grades of high, low and linear ...

Six years after announcing preliminary plans at NPE2012 for new technologies, Formosa Plastics Corp. USA said polyethylene and polypropylene production and capacity expansions have begun at its plant ...

Image courtesy Ohmega1982/freedigitalphotos.net. A surge in new plastics chemical capacity coming from low-cost producers in North America, the Middle East and China is driving an oversupply in the ...

(a) Plots of notched impact strength versus temperature for the PPM/HDPE composites with different HDPE contents. The inset image provides the plot for the pure PP and PP/HDPE (70/30) samples. (b) T ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and University of California, Santa Barbara researchers teamed with Dow to develop a breakthrough process to transform the most widely produced plastic — ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hengyi Industries Sdn. Bhd., has selected Univation Technologies’ UNIPOL™ PE Process for its world-scale 600,000 TPY polyethylene (PE) plant to be located in Palau Muara ...

Austria-based company says it will set up a demonstration recycled-content polyolefins (rPO) compounding line in Beringen, Belgium. Its new production line in Belgium will accept recycled-content ...

Plastics are synthetic or semi-synthetic materials made from polymers, which are long chains of molecules typically derived from petroleum, natural gas, or other organic sources. Plastics are ...