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2009-12-08 2:33 min PET materials

Eastar™ EB062 copolyester resins enable brand owners to offer enhanced consumer convenience with multi-serve packaging

Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN) and Northumbria Blow Mouldings, Ltd. announce the availability of four and five liter clear, handled bottles for convenient multi-serve packaging, the largest of their kind available in Europe. Awarded the 2009 Horner's Bottlemaking Award from the ...

2009-12-08 2:22 min Caps & Closures

First one-piece cap for hotfill applications

Plastic caps for products hot-filled in PET bottles are at the moment almost all ...

2009-12-08 3:10 min

PolyMirae starts up operation of LyondellBasell’s Metocene technology

PolyMirae (PMC), a joint venture between Daelim and LyondellBasell Industries, has successfully started the operation of LyondellBasell’s Metocene polypropylene technology. The company has installed this metallocene catalyst-based PP technology to one of its Spheripol lines in ...

2009-12-02 1:37 min Additives

PolyOne continues expansion in biopolymers – Joins SPI Bioplastics Council

PolyOne Corporation, a premier global provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, today announced additional steps in the Company’s ongoing expansion into sustainable technologies and the emerging biopolymer market. The Company has joined the Society of the ...

2009-12-01 1:31 min Preform moulds

Mold-Masters announces new TempMaster K-Series hot runner temperature controllers

The new K-Series modular controllers are compact and economical, especially on ...

2009-12-01 0:53 min

LyondellBasell to shut down one PP production line at Wesseling plant in Germany

LyondellBasell announced today that it will shut down one polypropylene (PP) line in Wesseling, Germany, by the end of 2009. As a result, PP capacity at the site will be reduced by 110KT. “We have concluded that our current polypropylene operating rate at Wesseling is no longer ...

2009-11-30 2:35 min Labels and sleeves

Eastman announces European availability of Embrace™ Copolyesters for shrink film

Eastman Chemical Company announces the availability of its Eastman Embrace™ ...

2009-11-30 2:40 min PET materials

Prof. Lee's team succeeds in producing plastics without use of fossil fuels

A team of scientists led by Prof. Sang-Yup Lee of the Department of Biological Sciences at KAIST have succeeded in producing the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel based chemicals, the university authorities said on ...

2009-11-26 2:44 min PET recycling systems

Modern plastics recycling: Optimising energy consumption, reducing both production costs and CO2

The new ecoSAVE technology will help operators of EREMA plastics recycling systems ...

2009-11-26 5:21 min Additives

Milliken’s new clarifying agent Millad® NX8000 opens up a world of opportunity for highly transparent injection-blow moulded PP containers

The market for very clear thick-walled bottles and jars that has remained largely untapped by polypropylene is now opening up as the result of a cooperative project between Milliken Chemical, market leader for clarifying agents for polypropylene, and precision blow mould maker ADOP ...