Materials
The agreement between Covestro and Danish clean energy leader Orsted A/S will supply 90 megawatts of power to Covestro's production site in Baytown, Texas.
This round of the United Nation's global plastics treaty negotiations concluded with plans to create a draft of the treaty but questions and hurdles remain.
Vince Misiti was named CEO of Westlake, Ohio-based Palmer Holland in January. He joined the firm after a 28-year career at specialty chemicals supplier Lubrizol Corp. of Wickliffe, Ohio.
Hilarie Rubin of Teknor Apex makes case for thermoplastic elastomers in medical applications at Rubber News' Healthcare Elastomers Conference.
Nova Chemicals has ended force majeure supply limits on high and low density polyethylene resins made in Moore Township, Ontario.
The expansion will increase the site's annual production capacity by 40 percent, officials with Farmington, Conn.-based Polymer Resources said.
PVC compounder Manner Polymers is investing $54 million in a new manufacturing plant in Mount Vernon, Ill.
Shale gas and oil continue to give North America an advantage in plastics feedstocks, but alternative energy sources are being developed in the region and around the world.
Representatives from Saudi Arabia and Russia put more emphasis on the benefits of plastics while countries in the "High Ambition Coalition" called to reduce plastics production and phase out problematic materials.
Health concerns around additives in plastics are taking an elevated role at the plastics treaty talks.
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