Plastic materials can be found in practically every aspect of everyday life, including packaged foods, furniture, construction materials, vehicles, medical devices, and personal garments (to name a ...

Sumitomo Chemical has agreed to integrate its domestic polypropylene and linear low-density polyethylene businesses into Prime Polymer through a two-phase simple absorption-type company split, in ...

Chinaplas was the venue for the global debut of ExxonMobil Chemical’s new range of Exceed XP metallocene-based linear low-density polyethylene (mLLDPE) resins. The product family delivers a ...

Bill Buttlar, a professor at the University of Missouri, highlights takeaways in the university’s research on using recycled low-density polyethylene in asphalt paving materials. In August 2021, the ...

Polyethylene is the most widespread and pervasive synthetic polymer used throughout the world, accounting for over a third of the global annual plastic manufacturing output. In recent years, plastic ...

A decade ago, every sizable polymer producer had an aggressive program under way to develop metallocene and other single-site catalysts for polyolefins. The precision these new catalysts permit in ...

Flexible film design is fraught with compromise and complexity. Designers use their skills to select resins offering a satisfactory balance of mechanical performance and easy extrusion. Then they try ...