ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) is  now evaluating a patented solvent-based process for food-safe HDPE recycled material at a pilot plant in Heerenveen, the ...

LyondellBasell has reached final investment decision to build a grassroots high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plant at the US Gulf Coast. Scheduled for startup in 2019, the proposed 1.1 billion-lb/year ...

Austrian packaging and recycling company ALPLA has secured government funding in the Netherlands and set up a new recycling ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...