Polyethylene and polypropylene account for two-thirds of the world's plastics. But the polymers' popularity has an equally large downside. Because they have similar densities and physical ...

MET-OL Ltd. (Loughborough, U.K.), born out of a need to address these ongoing difficulties, struck out to develop a fundamentally different approach to thermoplastic chemistry that reconceptualizes ...

Producer of recycled-content polymers made from discarded carpeting has initiated a Chapter 11 process at a bankruptcy court in its home state of Texas. Circular Polymers by Ascend produces ...

Demonstrating that making sustainable plastics isn’t necessarily a sustainable business, two prominent green plastics operations—the biobased polymer maker Danimer Scientific and Brightmark ...

Leaders from Republic Services Inc. and Blue Polymers LLC have opened North America’s first Polymer Center and Blue Polymers plastics recycling complex in Indianapolis, where the joint venture ...

Plastic that conducts electricity might sound impossible. But there is a special class of materials known as “electronic polymers” that combines the flexibility of plastic with the functionality of ...

A research group has developed SPACIER, an advanced polymer material design tool that integrates machine learning with molecular simulations. As a proof of concept, the group successfully ...

With deadlines fast approaching, Corpus Christi Polymers is requesting more time to complete construction on an unfinished plant to fulfill tax abatement agreements with Nueces County and Del Mar ...

FRX Innovations is selling its FRX Polymers business including the Nofia flame retardant business, to a new entity, FRX Acquisition, as part of a restructuring. FRX Acquisition is paying $1.5 ...

Researchers' new polymer strategy shifts a centuries-old engineering paradigm with a molecular design that doesn't sacrifice stretchability for stiffness. Researchers at the University of Virginia ...

For a polymer to be considered truly biodegradable, it has to be fully disassembled and microbially converted to carbon dioxide, water (or methane, in anaerobic conditions), and biomass.

Walther also released a polymer-frame version of this match gun, with the same slide, slide lightening cuts and the signature flat-face Dynamic Performance Trigger. However, from both of these ...