Industrial Plastics Group LLC is laying off workers at a golf ball making faciilty in South Carolina. The facility provides ...
The scheme aims to eventually install 2,500 reverse vending machines and 8,000 return points to reach a 90% collection rate by 2029, as mandated by the EU’s Single Use Plastics Directive (SUPD).
Resin markets are headed for a mixed October, with significant drops expected for polypropylene and polystyrene, flat-to-lower pricing for PVC, and a potential tariff-driven spike for PET. Resin ...
Pyrolysis equipment for waste plastics is being delivered to Clean Vision Inc.'s location in West Virginia later this month.
The Global Impact Coalition (GIC) study found that the primary obstacle to scaling automotive plastic recycling is not ...
A Trump administration change to metals tariff rules puts plastic injection molding machines and some molds into a lower ...
The new plant in the Port of Rotterdam will have a planned capacity to process 80,000 tonnes a year of post-consumer plastic, ...
Magna International Inc. is selling its $1.1 billion automotive lighting and rooftop systems businesses—including ...
I didn’t think [increases] would be this widespread this quickly,” one market source said. “It’s affecting all [resin] ...
Under oxygen-free conditions, UV irradiation generates reactive species in the solvent that initiate the breakdown of the ...
In this week’s Material Insights, Frank Esposito reports that polystyrene is joining PVC and several engineering thermoplastics all moving higher to start 2026. He links the increases to seasonal ...
In this week’s Material Insights, Frank Esposito reports sharp price increases across key resins, with polyethylene and ...