German investment firms to buy European Petrochemical business as well as Engineering Thermoplastics business in the Americas ...

At K 2025, BASF is introducing a reduced PCF (product carbon footprint) product range, rPCF, aimed at PCF improvements using renewable electricity and steam during the production process. The offering ...

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 ...

Selecting the right plastic welding technology is essential for achieving high performance, durability and consistent quality for your automotive parts. Learn how various processes, such as ultrasonic ...

Selecting the right plastic welding technology is essential for achieving high performance, durability and consistent quality for your automotive parts. Learn how various processes, such as ultrasonic ...

Selecting the right plastic welding technology is essential for achieving high performance, durability and consistent quality for your automotive parts. Learn how various processes, such as ultrasonic ...

LS Mtron Injection Molding Machines, Duluth, Georgia, has expanded its Chicago Technical Center in Wood Dale, Illinois, now fully occupying the entire 25,000-ft 2 building, according to a company ...

If you spend a lot of time looking at data sheets you have probably noticed a trend over the last several years in how the melt flow rate (MFR) is reported. Along with, or instead of, the MFR, a new ...

ExxonMobil’s Signature Polymers portfolio offers a new approach to service and partnership with customers and the broader value chain. The company will introduce new programs which it says will ...

In blown film, clarity is often considered synonymous with quality. Haze is a defect. Haze can be caused either by melt fracture on the film’s surface or—in coextrusions—by instability inside the film ...

Melt flow rate testing can be characterized as the Rodney Dangerfield of material test methods—it gets no respect. People from all parts of the industry downplay the value of the test or denigrate its ...

In our 2024 Top Shops injection molding benchmarking survey, Philip Katen of Plastikos talked about a “grind-it-out” phase for processors working out post-COVID inventory overcorrections. In 2025’s ...