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Avient Corp. has been busy in 2021 commercializing new products that are sustainable while meeting customer needs.
Earlier this year, Avon Lake, Ohio-based Avient debuted Rejoin-brand post-consumer masterbatch colorants for polyolefin packaging. The colorants are made with post-consumer polyolefin as a carrier resin.
Regional prices for polyethylene resins and PET bottle resin finished flat for the month, but a PE increase attempt didn't go down without a fight.
For Circulus Holdings PBLLC, the company's approach is literally in the name.
With one low-density polyethylene film recycling facility recently opening in California, the Houston-based company not only wants to make a difference in plastic recycling but also wants to impact lives along the way.
The Asian ABS market has mostly tended to slide since around mid-September if not for occasional price spikes. A combination of bearish factors including increased supply, low season, and falling spot styrene prices maintained the downward momentum in the fourth quarter of 2021.
The US is the world’s biggest culprit in generating plastic waste and the country urgently needs a new strategy to curb the vast amount of plastic that ends up in the oceans, a new report submitted to the federal government has found.
Canada recycles just 12 percent of its plastic packaging — about 21 percent of its rigid containers but only 1 percent of its flexible packaging. A new plan released Oct. 21 from some major consumer product companies and other groups, however, hopes to change that.
According to the Customs Branch of Saigon Port Area 1 (HCMC Customs Department), updated to the end of November, Cat Lai port still has 2,408 containers in stock. Of which, 1,594 containers are scrap.
A Canadian maker of specialty polymers and ion-exchange membranes for hydrogen fuel cells is setting up a research center in Rochester, N.Y.
LG Electronics expects to dramatically increase use of recycled plastics during the next decade, with aggressive increases by both 2025 and 2030.