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3 days ago
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Braskem America Introduces Bio-Circular Polypropylene

Biopolymers pioneer Braskem has launched a bio-circular polypropylene (PP) under the brand name WENEW. WENEW is said to be a...

Aug 22
1 min

Ube Machinery Debuts 9000-tonne Giga Casting Press

Machinery has debuted a newly-developed die casting machine for giga casting, a form of die casting technology that uses aluminum alloy...

Aug 13
2 min

LG Chem Adds Eco-friendliness to Flame-Retardant Plastics

Korea’s LG Chem has revealed that its PFAS*-free flame-retardant polycarbonate/acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (PC/ABS) material...

Aug 7
1 min

MLTA POE Report Covered by PIE

Plastics Information Europe (PIE) did a stellar job of covering the latest update of our global market report for polyolefin elastomers...

May 17
3 min

Dow SCGC Sign MOU for Circular Plastics

First in the Asia Pacific market to seek a holistic value chain solution for circular plastic. 200,000 tonnes/year of plastic waste will...

May 3
2 min

Project Using AI to Develop Sustainable Materials

Officially launched on May 2nd, the four-year FAVIA (Adaptative Formulation Through Artificial Intelligence) project aims to predict and...

Mar 12
2 min

MLTA's APIC 2024 Korea Seminar Program Finalized

Whether you are planning to attend the APIC 2024 (the Asia Petrochemical Industry Conference) in person or not, mark your online...

Mar 6
2 min

PLAYMOBIL Selects Plant-based Styrenic for Sustainable Toy Line

PLAYMOBIL, a leading global toy producer, has selected plant-based ABS* and plant-based MBS** from INEOS Styrolution for their new...

Feb 23
1 min

MLT Analytics at APIC 2024 Korea

MLT Analytics will be attending the Asia Petrochemical Industry Conference (APIC 2024) in Seoul, Korea this coming May 30th and 31st. We...

Feb 9
3 min

Lignin-reinforced PLA Imparts Antioxidant Effect with Controlled Biodegradability

KraussMaffei Extrusion has tied up with a Polish partner to develop a bio-based injection molding compound with enhanced mechanical...

Feb 1
2 min

MLT Analytics Report—New Solar Cell Technologies Accelerate a Transformational Shift in Encapsulant Sheet Adoption

Fast-emerging TOPCon cell structure promotes shift to POE encapsulant. High cost of POE pushes sheet makers to innovate with multilayer...

Jan 16
2 min

Plastics added $250 billion to U.S. health costs in 2018?

In 2018 global plastics production was valued at $712 billion according to Statistica. Let's conservatively assume that the U.S....

Jan 3
2 min

Baby Bottles are Bio-based

LyondellBasell and Pigeon Singapore – a market leader producing high-quality mother and baby care products for Southeast Asia, Middle...

Nov 21, 2023
1 min

R&D Project Targets EVA Recycling

Braskem America, together with footwear brands adidas and Allbirds, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), are teaming up to to...

Nov 1, 2023
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The Circular Future of Polymer Production in Europe

At the recent Global Plastics Summit that we attended in Bangkok, there were calls from NGOs and governmental bureaucrats to...

Oct 19, 2023
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SK chemicals Stores Music on Chemically Recycled PET

Global record producer Sonopress has developed the EcoRecord with “circular recycled PET” Replacing PVC, the “circularly recycled” PET...

Sep 12, 2023
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Neste to Enable bio-based PET Bottles Production

Neste has entered into a partnership with beverage manufacturer Suntory, petrochemicals player ENEOS and and trading house Mitsubishi...

Jul 27, 2023
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New POE Supplier Emerges in Korea

Korea’s Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical has completed construction of a polyolefin elastomer (POE) pilot plant, representing a...

May 25, 2023
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PP Frames Support PV Panels

Sabic has teamed up with solar module maker Solarge to develop lightweight photovoltaic (PV) modules employing polypropylene (PP). The PP...

May 17, 2023
1 min

Seaweed-based Plastic is Injection-moldable

U.S. company Loliware has debuted a seaweed-based plastic that is processable on conventional injection molding machinery at the 2023...