ITHACA, N.Y. - Recyclable plastic containers with the No. 2 designation could become even more popular for manufacturers as plastic milk jugs, dish soap containers and shampoo bottles may soon get an ...

Austrian packaging and recycling company ALPLA has secured government funding in the Netherlands and set up a new recycling business there, trialling a patented solvent-based technology to produce ...

targets tough, stiff, high-clarity films, with processing possible on both linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) and low-density polyethylene (LDPE) film-line equipment. Processing and shrink ...

HOUSTON, Jan. 17-- Basell Polyolefine GMBH awarded Montedison Group unit Tecnimont a 140 million euro contract for a 320,000 tonne/year high-density polyethylene plant to be built at Wesseling, ...

TORONTO (Oct. 10, 9:30 a.m. ET) — For the second straight year, post-consumer high density polyethylene recycling has remained stagnant. The North American recycling rate for HDPE remained at 29.9 ...

LyondellBasell Industries NV has decided to build its recently approved project for a US Gulf Coast high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plant at the company’s La Porte, Tex., manufacturing complex along ...

Mitsui Chemicals and Idemitsu Kosan, both in Tokyo, have signed a joint venture agreement that will combine their polyolefins businesses effective April 2005. The new firm, Prime Polymer Co., will be ...

THE WOODLANDS, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP (Chevron Phillips Chemical) is pleased to announce that The Plastics Academy has posthumously inducted heritage employees J.

Chemists can demonstrate how to make high-density polyethylene with better control over polymer chain lengths, which allows for improvement over physical properties such as processability and strength ...