They often require careful customization to address the unique challenges of each application. Variations in recycled feedstock compositions, differences in processing techniques and diverse ...

Cypet Technologies, the Cyprus-based maker of stretch-blow molding machines and specialist in designing and molding large containers, has offered a peek at what it calls the world’s first 1,000-L PET ...

This is the most challenging resin pricing column I’ve had to assemble, starting with the U.S. Supreme Court’s February ruling that invalidated most of President Trump’s broad emergency-based import ...

Polyethylene has been around as a commercial material for a little over 70 years. It was one of the early developments in synthetic thermoplastics. Given its long history, it could be assumed that we ...

Automotive manufacturers are under increasing pressure to deliver premium surface quality while reducing process complexity, cost and environmental impact. Traditional paint booth operations add ...

Three of the five commodity resins are expected to move in a somewhat upward trajectory due to overall supply/demand imbalance strategies.

PTI concludes that there is no simple answer to this problem—other than to use preforms promptly after they are molded—because it is not practical to dry these wet preforms and reuse them, as it will ...

Middle East conflict, energy costs and new tariffs create uncertainty for global feedstock and resin production, supply chain logistics and price trends.

A relative newcomer to the arena of colorants, additives and purging compounds for thermoplastics offers a broad range of products based on innovative technologies. Britec Solutions Inc., Tyler, Texas ...

Three of the five commodity resins are expected to move in a somewhat upward trajectory due to overall supply/demand imbalance strategies.

Three of the five commodity resins are expected to move in a somewhat upward trajectory due to overall supply/demand imbalance strategies.

Middle East conflict, energy costs and new tariffs create uncertainty for global feedstock and resin production, supply chain logistics and price trends.