China's polypropylene homopolymer imports increased 2.7% month on month in January to 385,957 mt, customs data released on Tuesday showed. PP imports rose 36.5% year on year, the data showed. Imports from Saudi Arabia edged up ...
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Polypropylene (PP) is a common, commercial engineering plastic that is tough, flexible and can be manufactured via extrusion film casting (EFC). Most commercial PP is isotactic with all methyl groups orientated on the same side of the ...
Purac has announced that the company will offer high performance poly lactic acid (PLA) resins for brand owners, converters and compounders to speed up market introduction of bioplastics. According to the company, its biobased PLA ...
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Australia's federal government will establish an Anti-Dumping Commission and introduce stricter remedies against overseas producers in a bid to protect Australia's manufacturing industry. The changes will be a major boost for Australia's ...
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US domestic polypropylene contracts for December were expected to rise 1 cent/lb ($22/mt) from November to around 66-67 cents/lb for homopolymer injection, in line with a similar uptick taking place in the monomer market, sources said ...
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Bostik, S.A. has been granted a patent for an adhesive composition obtainable by mixing 100 parts by weight of at least one organic polymer having moisture crosslinkable reactive silane terminal functions, and 1-70 parts by weight of at ...
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U.S. 8,110,624 B2 The Valspar Corporation has obtained a patent for a low-VOC paint comprised of a latex polymer comprised of a surfactant and polymer particles comprised of a homopolymer or copolymer including at least one of an acrylate ...
Plastics prices finished down last month across much of Asia, with the trend affecting a broad swath of the market. Lower oil prices pulled down the cost for some plastic feedstock materials' prices, and demand was soft as well as buyers ...
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