Usage in solar module encapsulation continues on growth trend Automotive PP compounds remain a mainstay growth application POPs face competition from traditional mLLDPEs in sealant film applications New Chinese entrants face operational teething issues Singapore, January 20, 2026 – The global market for polyolefin elastomers and plastomers (POEs/POPs * ) is forecast to grow at 5.6% per annum (CAGR) through to 2036 to a volume of 4.4 million tonnes-plus according to the latest

SABIC has the signed two strategic transactions to divest its European Petrochemicals (EP) business to AEQUITA and its Engineering Thermoplastics (ETP) business in the Americas and Europe to MUTARES, for a total combined enterprise value of $950 million. SABIC’s EP business produces and markets various petrochemical and plastic products: ethylene, propylene, low- and high-density polyethylene (LDPE, LLDPE, and HDPE), polypropylene (PP), and value-added polymer compounds, and

Consumption of cables in Southeast Asia is forecast to accelerate in 2026, growing by 6.2% to an estimated 1.083 million tonnes of...

The world's most technologically innovative event for the global plastics industry will open its doors on October 8 and MLT Analytics...

Faced with a declining domestic market and global overcapacity throughout the plastics industry, Mitsui Chemicals, Idemitsu Kosan and...

The global market share of battery electric vehicles (BEVs; 12-month moving average) reached 17.51% in July 2025 according to market...

The Ziegler-Natta-based polypropylene (PP) resin catalyst market (excluding metallocene catalysts) was estimated at around 3700 tonnes...

HydroGraph Clean Power Inc., the producer of one of the world’s highest purity graphenes, has announced the launch of its Compounding...

What if you could generate electricity using footsteps? Step in Pavegen which as developed a system that consists of three...

Borealis invests over €100 million in new Daploy high melt strength polypropylene (HMS-PP) line at its Burghausen, Germany, facility....

Braskem is celebrating 15 years as a producer of the I’m green bio-based portfolio by celebrating the 37% expansion in production...

Japan is networked via around 27,700 kilometers of railway, with some remote lines traversed by but several trains daily. Stations on...

Adeka has just launched an innovative clarifier for polypropylene (PP) with a new brand name—Transparex (product name: ADK Transparex CA...

Henkel and Celanese Corporation have announced a partnership to enhance circularity in emulsion production by utilizing carbon...

We'd guess that aluminum used in beverage cans would differ from that used in automotive and aerospace applications but iut turns out...

Talk rebar and one would normally envision rusty metal rod. Now, a glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) composite rebar is getting a...

Announcing on October 3 that it would be selling its Urethane Systems business to Japan's Ube Corp., German materials supplier Lanxess...

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

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

The Mitsubishi Chemical Group (MCG) has launched a study chemically recycle of end-of-life tires (ELTs) by utilizing the coke ovens at...