Braskem Idesa filed for Chapter 11 with a restructuring plan that would cut more than $920 million in debt and provide fresh capital as the Mexican polyethylene producer works to recover from years of ...

Brookfield is pursuing a $2.9 billion takeover of SharkBite maker Reliance Worldwide as the plumbing products manufacturer navigates weak construction markets, rising resin costs and a reshaping of ...

Grupo Antolin and major bondholders challenging its financial restructuring have temporarily paused their legal fight while ...

Frank Esposito breaks down falling resin prices, soft demand and an unusual summer decline for PET bottle resin.

Carboliq’s CEO, Christian Haupts, told Sustainable Plastics that Recenso is looking for a new lead investor to continue the ...

Clean-Seas West Virginia Inc.'s pyrolysis plant in Belle, W.Va., gains a needed state air permit despite opposition.

A new report from the American Chemistry Council says plastics use in cars grew 20 percent in the last decade, but it called ...

North American resin markets have swung sharply back in buyers' favor—Polymer Points explains why prices are falling, what it means for virgin and recycled resins, and whether p ...

A Trump administration report names plastics as an industrial sector impacted by transshipments, the practice of routing ...

Federal prosecutors have charged Wellmade Industries founder Zhu “George” Chen and two other men with forcing Chinese nationals to work at the company’s Georgia rigid-core flooring plant, a major U.S.