Lower feedstock costs and drops in demand sent North American prices for polypropylene and PET bottle resin down in September. Average selling prices for PP were down an average of 4 cents, while PET ...

Let’s cut to the chase—plastic waste management may be on everyone’s mind, but disparate initiatives are falling woefully short. In 2010, between 5 million and 13 million metric tons of plastic waste ...

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 ...

Braskem has introduced a new polypropylene (PP) grade in under the INSPIRE brand designed to replace polyethylene terephthalate (PET) in consumer food packaging applications when higher temperature ...

North American prices for polyethylene, polypropylene and PET bottle resin hit the ground running in 2018. Prices for PP and PET both moved up in January, while PE prices ticked down an average of 3 ...