Eastman Chemical Company announced today that Eastman Tritan™ copolyester received a favorable opinion for use in contact with food from the Food Directorate of Canada’s federal health department, Health Canada. Tritan™, a new-generation copolyester, is used in a broad range of applications,…

PolyMirae Company Ltd, a joint venture of LyondellBasell and Daelim, has developed two new PP resins, Clyrell RC5003 and Moplen RP5007, which aim to address the increasing demands of customers in high transparency and high flow applications.Given its high transparency, Clyrell RC5003 has the…

WHSmith Retail Limited, Great Britain’s highest volume retailer of print media and Bartuf Systems, a top UK designer, manufacturer and supplier of display solutions developed a revolutionary shelving system using PETG sheet made from Eastman Spectar™ copolyester. The system design and use of…

   With consumers increasingly looking to live more active lifestyles, there has been a greater move toward the use of reusable water bottles. These convenient products are an easy way to bring along a beverage, whether bike riding or taking a morning walk. As the popularity of the portable beverage…

   Aladdin®, a division of Pacific Market International (Seattle, WA) and maker of a wide range of popular insulated food and beverage storage products, recently partnered with Eastman Chemical Company to develop and manufacture the CLEAN & CLEVER WATER BOTTLE™ product line using new Eastman Tritan™…

   Global household, beauty and personal care products brand leader Procter & Gamble (P&G), and ISBM packaging consultant PTI Europe have jointly developed a new range of injection stretch blow molded (ISBM) bottles which demonstrate superior performance over traditional materials for P&G’s new…

Oman-based Octal Holding and Co. SAOC (www.octal.com) will add 500,000 metric tons per annum (tpa) of production capacity in PET resins by May 2010, making it one of the world's largest polyester producers with 800,000 metric tons of annual capacity.Octal chairman Saad Suhail Bahwan said the…

   Recent tests have demonstrated that Styrolux® 3G46, a highly transparent SBC plastic grade that BASF launched onto the market just in 2006, lends itself very well for blow molding (SBC: styrene butadiene block copolymer). In comparison to established transparent materials used for this method…

DALLAS, LONDON and MUSCAT, Oman– Octal (www.octal.com) has revealed details of its direct to sheet (DTS) APET plastic manufacturing process which constitutes a significant departure from traditional manufacturing processes – both in terms of manufacturing efficiency and product quality.The new…

The Executive Committee of LA SEDA DE BARCELONA, meeting today, has agreed to integrate the management of the Group’s recycling plants into a single company. The objective of this reorganization is to consolidate the integration process in which the company is involved, following the recent…

First-time exhibitor at Interpack, Octal (Hall 9, Stand B19), will be displaying the quality and uniformity of its APET sheet made from its own PET resin in an integrated process.Visitors to the stand will be able to see and order both Octal’s resin and APET sheet product.  APET sheet will be…