Gravity caught up to the polyethylene resin market in October, sending North American prices down an average of 3 cents per pound. Regional prices for PET bottle resin also continued to fall in ...

How much polyethylene resin is too much? That's essentially the question being asked by market analyst Terry Glass in a recent insight paper from consulting firm Argus Media of London. In the ...

Resin companies began a massive wave of investment in North America, with more than 36.4 billion pounds of new capacity announced for PE alone. Even though 16 percent of North American PE production ...

With little more than a week concluded, physical resin trading performance as recorded by the PlasticsExchange has already exceeded half of a typical month. This past week also witnessed a ...

In some of the lowest availabilities seen this year, spot polyethylene (PE) prices added $0.01/lb last ... with offcolor and transitional resin at discounted prices. Spot benzene added $0.05/gallon, ...

In addition to investment advantages, the 800,000 tonnes per year design maintains excellent polyethylene resin product flexibility including capability for the manufacture of unimodal high ...

The company says its EX-PCR-NC4 resin contains 100-percent-postconsumer-recycled polyethylene and enables a fully circular plastics economy for flexible film. Image courtesy of Nova Chemicals Corp.

Dow Inc. DOW recently introduced new Fingerprint DFDA-7555 NT, a bimodal Polyethylene (PE) resin for the microirrigation market. This product is an extension of its Fingerprint Polyethylene resin ...