3:50 min Additives

PolyOne’s breakthrough technologies, sustainable solutions respond to customer demand, highlight innovation

PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, today announced its recent introduction of new technology platforms and biopolymer solutions helped capture several hundred qualified sales leads within a week of ...
3:10 min Additives

NAPCOR calls for restraint in the use of degradable additives in PET packaging

The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) today urged restraint in the use of degradable additives in PET packaging. NAPCOR, the trade organization for the PET packaging industry, is concerned that no data has been made publicly available to substantiate or ...
5:40 min Additives

LyondellBasell to showcase its industry-leading technologies and world-class production assets at Chinaplas 2009

LyondellBasell Industries will participate in Chinaplas 2009, which will be held from May 18 to 21, 2009 at the China Import and Export Fair Pazhou Complex in Guangzhou, China.  LyondellBasell’s stand will be located at Hall 10.2, Stand No E31.The company will feature the ...
2:56 min Additives

PolyOne extends sustainable PlanetPak™ Packaging System to color and additive concentrates

PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, today announced it will transition to the PlanetPak™ Packaging System as the standard container for color and additive concentrates in North America. The PlanetPak container ...
4:23 min Additives

PolyOne to present expanded portfolio at Elmia Polymer 2009

ASSESSE, Belgium – April 6, 2009 – PolyOne Corporation (NYSE:POL) will be exhibiting its latest colorants, additives, engineered materials, services and solutions at the Elmia Polymer exhibition (Stand: B01:60) on May 5-8, in Jonköping, Sweden.Technology platforms and products being ...
1:50 min Additives

PURAC and AkzoNobel develop additives for PLA

PURAC and AkzoNobel have developed additives through a specific organic peroxide technology for the production of Poly Lactic Acid (PLA) a bioplastic made from biorenewable, carbohydrate-based raw materials. The additives play an important role in controlling the polymerization by ...
1:40 min Additives

PolyOne launches Chinese language version of its web site

PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a leading global provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, today announced the launch of a Chinese-language version of the Company’s global web site, www.polyone.com. The addition of simplified Chinese to the Company’s web ...
3:45 min Additives

Clariant opens new plant in Guangzhou to make color and additive masterbatches for plastics

  “China is the largest growth market in Asia,” says Hans Ulrich Kurtz, ...
1:17 min Additives

PET bottle brightener counters the unattractive yellow effect typical in most post consumer recycled plastics

Ampacet BlueEdge™ Formula X PET additive permits consumer goods packaging companies to increase the percentage of recycled PET (RPET) without affecting the overall clarity of the bottle.  BlueEdge balances out the characteristic “yellowish brown effect” typically found when ...
2:25 min Additives

ALBIS PLASTIC now distributes MasterBatch of AMPACET in Europe

The Hamburg based distributor and compounder of engineering resins, ALBIS PLASTIC GmbH and AMPACET Europe SA, one of the worldwide leading producers of MasterBatch have closed a distribution agreement, which comes into effect on July, 1st, 2008. The comprehensive product range of ...