The CHEMARK Consulting Group, Inc. of Southern Pines, NC has appointed James Lloyd Senior Sales and Market Strategist, Coatings and Packaging. CHEMARK, a globally recognized management consulting company focusing narrowly on all aspects ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, coating, Packaging
Saudi Arabia's National Petrochemical, or Petrochem, announced Monday that its affiliate Saudi Polymers has completed maintenance work at its polymers plant in Jubail and will restart all units there early next week. The units were shut ...
Tags: Saudi Polymers, Jubail Plant
Mallard Creek Polymers, (MCP) continues to expand the markets for the company’s extensive product line of Acrylic Polymer Emulsions. The most recent success comes from Performance Coatings R&D and sales personnel focus on new ...
Tags: Acrylic Polymer, Textile
On July 8, Fortune Magazine published its list of the global top 500 companies for 2013. Sinopec ranked No. 4, the highest of any Chinese company on the list, with annual operating revenue of US$428.167 billion. This is the fifteenth ...
Tags: Sinopec, Fortune 500 List
Several critical factors drive the net result performance of an optic: design, material, tooling and the science and art of the injection process. With 50 years experience transforming polymers, Gaggione goes a step forward by adding new ...
International Process Plants (IPP) is pleased to announce the purchase and acquisition of a European low density polyethylene (LDPE) production plant that is available immediately to be acquired, relocated and operated elsewhere. The plant ...
Tags: LDPE Plant, Textile
ExxonMobil Chemical and Total Petrochemicals are joining other polypropylene producers seeking 2-cent/lb ($44/mt) increases effective August 1, sources said Wednesday. "Everyone is going for two (cents/lb) on the (margin) expansion," a ...
Tags: Exxonmobil, PP
BASF, Cargill and Novozymes announced the achievement of an important milestone in their joint development of technologies to produce acrylic acid from renewable raw materials by successfully demonstrating the production of ...
Tags: BASF, Acrylic Acid, Renewable Materials
Phillips 66 will reduce delivery of polypropylene grades because of issues with feedstock supply, further squeezing an already tight market, sources said Tuesday. The company announced the measure late Monday in a letter to customers ...
US polypropylene contracts for June were settling this week at a 3-cent/lb ($66/mt) increase, following a similar hike on feedstock propylene, sources said Friday. The 4% increase pushed homopolymer injection grade polypropylene to 74-75 ...
Tags: Polypropylene, Chemicals
Ineos Olefins and Polymers seeks to increase its polypropylene prices in the US by 2 cents/pound ($44/metric ton) for July, joining other producers seeking to expand margins for the second time this year, market sources said Monday. The ...
Tags: Polypropylene, Chemicals
Multiple market sources said Thursday that US high density polyethylene contract prices are expected to rise by 2 cents/lb for June, while low density polyethylene and linear low density polyethylene contract prices are likely to remain ...
Tags: Chemicals, polyethylene, LDPE, LLDPE
Multiple market sources said Thursday that US high density polyethylene contract prices are expected to rise by 2 cents/lb for June, while low density polyethylene and linear low density polyethylene contract prices are likely to remain ...
Tags: high density polyethylene, LDPE, LLDPE
Engineered hardwood flooring is the fastest-growing segment in the hardwood industry. It can be installed on all types of subfloors (where it can be floated, stapled or glued) and has become especially popular due to its inherent structural ...
Tags: engineered hardwood flooring, hardwood industry, glue-down wood flooring
The biggest limitation of using glass over Teflon plastic sheet was that glass is extremely heavy to lift and is much more prone to getting broken when fallen down. In the past, substances like rubber, glass or clay were used in households ...
Tags: Polycarbonate Sheet