Materials
Materials
Global chemicals producer Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) is purchasing Industrie Maurizio Peruzzo Polowat spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością - IMP Polowat - , a PET recycling facility in Poland.
At Covestro’s 2020 Annual General Meeting earlier today, CEO Markus Steilemann had a relatively buoyant message.
At the upcoming VDI Congress "Plastics in Automotive Engineering", which this year will take place online on 28 and 29 July, Covestro is focussing on future mobility with the presentation of a new, premium concept for the car interior that balances innovation with sustainability.
For Jablite, a UK producer of EPS, the lockdown period was a difficult period.
Celanese had owned a 45 percent stake in Polyplastics, which makes specialty plastics including acetal, polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) and liquid crystal polymer (LCP).
The German firm is keeping the Albis name for distribution, while using Mocom for its compounding efforts.
Swiss additive and masterbatch producer Sukano has launched a newly formulated transparent impact modifier for recycled or virgin PET resin. PET formulated with the new masterbatch can be used as an alternative to the specialty copolyesters currently used in cold, flash frozen and room temperature packaging trays.
Specialty chemicals company Lanxess is increasingly moving toward the use of recycled raw materials in the production of its thermoplastic compounds and composites.
Kraton Corporation, a producer of specialty polymers and high-value biobased products derived from pine wood pulping co-products, has announced that it has joined the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR).
A lightbulb moment led to the development of a new material. Here’s how three companies came together to make that happen while incidentally demonstrating the importance of collaboration in the value chain.
Photanol BV, a Dutch company that has developed technology to produce circular carbon chemicals from CO2 absorbed from the air and Renolit SE, a manufacturer of high-quality polymer films, sheets and other polymer solutions, have formed a strategic partnership to develop new sustainably-produced polymers.
A new initiative to develop the next generation of sustainable composite materials and bring together the UK’s composites expertise to quickly turn research breakthroughs into industrial applications was announced today by UK Undersecretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Nadhim Zawahi MP.
July 1 was a big day for materials maker PolyOne Corp.: the firm closed a $1.44 billion deal and officially changed its name to Avient Corp.