When we think of graphene, we tend to think of its use in high-profile applications such as electronics, medical devices and construction materials. Now, however, it's been incorporated into an ...

IrgaCycle: BASF has kicked off a line of five new additives that improves the properties of mechanically recycled postconsumer and postindustrial polyolefins. The line includes new plastic additive ...

Additives can significantly improve the prospects for recycled plastics, be they polyethylene (PE), polyethylene terephthalate (PET) or polypropylene (PP), as new products from FRX Polymers, Songwon, ...

When Geoffrey Coates, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University, gives a talk about plastics and recycling, he usually opens with this question: What percentage of the 78 ...

CLINTON, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As regulators tighten the screws on the use of halogenated flame retardants for health and safety reasons, flexible film producers and other users are increasingly ...

Following on from recently introduced bio-based EVA and recycled polyethylene/polypropylene blends with or without carbon fiber made from recycled bottle caps for ...