Polypropylene and polyethylene are two durable and affordable plastics commonly used as packaging materials, snack wrappers, ...

An alliance of several companies has worked together in Europe to collect postindustrial printed plastic films to create what the firms call a cost-effective solution that creates “high-quality ...

Image courtesy Ohmega1982/freedigitalphotos.net. A surge in new plastics chemical capacity coming from low-cost producers in North America, the Middle East and China is driving an oversupply in the ...

Global polyolefins leader LyondellBasell Industries and oil refiner Neste Corp. have made commercial-scale quantities of bio-based polypropylene and low density polyethylene. In a June 18 news release ...

As one of the most commonly used plastics in the world, polypropylene presents a global environmental problem because of issues related to its recycling. Researchers have developed a new way of ...

Envision Plastics, St. Joseph Plastics and PureCycle Technologies LLC are U.S. companies that are trying to find innovative ways to recycle polypropylene (PP). As technology advances, global brands ...

OOO Tomskneftekhim, a subsidiary of Russian conglomerate PJSC Sibur Holding, Moscow, has completed a project to expand capacity and upgrade the quality of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) and ...