5:51 min
PET materials
La Seda de Barcelona is developing the first recyclable PET for the Automotive Sector
The chemical group has been able to develop together with Ficosa and Zanini the first PET rear mirror and wheelcap for the automotive sector. PETAUTO is thus getting access to a potential market of 300.000 tons / year of PET. The new product will be supplied from El Prat de ...
2:33 min
PET materials
Eastar™ EB062 copolyester resins enable brand owners to offer enhanced consumer convenience with multi-serve packaging
Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN) and Northumbria Blow Mouldings, Ltd. announce the availability of four and five liter clear, handled bottles for convenient multi-serve packaging, the largest of their kind available in Europe. Awarded the 2009 Horner's Bottlemaking Award from the ...
2:40 min
PET materials
Prof. Lee's team succeeds in producing plastics without use of fossil fuels
A team of scientists led by Prof. Sang-Yup Lee of the Department of Biological Sciences at KAIST have succeeded in producing the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel based chemicals, the university authorities said on ...
4:70 min
PET materials
Can bio-based plastics ever substitute conventional plastics?
The associations European Bio-plastics and the European Polysaccharide Network of Excellence (EPNOE) have recently published a jointly-commissioned study on bio-based plastics. It forecasts their capacity developments and technical substitution potential. The authors, from Utrecht ...
4:43 min
PET materials
INVISTA Polymer and Resins to display polyester portfolio at NPE 2009
INVISTA, one of the world’s largest integrated polymers and fibers producers, will exhibit its broad portfolio of PET polymers, intermediate feedstocks, chemical intermediates, film products, and specialty polymers available through its Polymer and Resins business. The products will ...
1:40 min
PET materials
OCTAL Petrochemicals opens the world’s largest rigid PET sheet plant
OCTAL Petrochemicals has opened the world’s largest rigid PET sheet and resin plant located in the southeast port city of Salalah, Sultanate of Oman. This is the second PET facility run by the company and has a capacity of 300,000 metric tons per annum. The two new lines use the ...
2:19 min
PET materials
Equipolymers announces new President & CEO
Equipolymers has announced the retirement of President & CEO, Graham Fox, effective March 31, 2009. Succeeding Fox as President and CEO will be Henry Roth, currently President & CEO of MEGlobal, based in Dubai, UAE. Roth will retain his role at MEGlobal in addition to the new ...
