by Plastics.com Staff | Oct 3, 2018 | Business, Commodity Polymers, Consumer, Daily News, North America, Polymer Science
Houston Chronicle — Working in nearly 100-degree heat, sweating through mud-stained coveralls, four roustabouts wrestled with 30-foot sections of pipe that would follow a drill bit plunging some 13,000 feet into the earth, then turning nearly 90 degrees to chew...
by Plastics.com Staff | Oct 3, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Global, Medical
Digitaljournal.com — The Medical Plastics market is anticipated to reach over USD 37.5 billion by 2026 according to a new research published by Polaris Market Research. In 2017, the medical components segment dominated the global market, in terms of revenue. North...
by Plastics.com Staff | Oct 3, 2018 | Business, Commodity Polymers, Daily News, Polymer Science
Forbes.com — Ethane prices recently hit a four year high. Demand is finally catching up to supply, which is ample. Although this garnered far less attention than the crude oil rally, increasing supplies of ethane are an unappreciated element of the Shale Revolution....
by Plastics.com Staff | Sep 12, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Film Extrusion, North America, Packaging
Toray Plastics (America),has expanded its portfolio of white films and now offers consumer product goods companies and converters five new Torayfan white-pigmented metallized biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP) films. The new films encompass sealable and...
by Plastics.com Staff | Sep 12, 2018 | Business, Daily News, North America, Polymer Science, Recycling
Oregon — Agilyx is already processing scrap PS into a feedstock for prime plastics production. Now, the Oregon company says it can do the same thing for recovered PE and PP. Agilyx announced last week it is capable of processing the polyolefin recyclables into a...
by Plastics.com Staff | Sep 12, 2018 | Asia/Pacifica, Business, Daily News, Environmental, North America, Recycling, Scrap Plastics
Thailand — A Thai policy restricting the import of scrap plastics has proved effective. U.S. scrap plastic exports to the country dropped by 94 percent after the ban took hold. U.S. exporters sent 1.5 million pounds of recovered plastic to Thailand in July, the most...
