Plastics are all around us – from food packaging and drinking bottles to the insulation in our homes. They are mostly all derived from fossil fuels like oil and natural gas, but what are the key ...

North American commodity resins squeezed some action into the short month of February, with prices for PVC and PET bottle resin both going up, while polypropylene prices declined. Regional PVC prices ...

Flexible plastic packaging processor Spartech Corp. (Clayton, MO) has developed a range of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) films, dubbed EnviroSeal, which it predicts could grab some market share ...

The North American PVC market would be happy if 2017 matched 2016. Elsewhere, as the year draws to a close, the regional PET market is doing OK, while the polystyrene market hopes that better days are ...

Switzerland-based Bayer has launched polyethylene terephthalate (PET) blister packaging on its healthcare brand, Aleve, calling it a first-of-its-kind product in the healthcare industry. The brand ...