ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) is  now evaluating a patented solvent-based process for food-safe HDPE recycled material at a pilot plant in Heerenveen, the ...

Austrian packaging and recycling company ALPLA has secured government funding in the Netherlands and set up a new recycling ...

Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (Sabic) has signed a letter of intent with US Shaw Stone & Webster for the engineering, procurement, and construction of a high density polyethylene (HDPE) plant at the ...

LyondellBasell has reached final investment decision to build a grassroots high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plant at the US Gulf Coast. Scheduled for startup in 2019, the proposed 1.1 billion-lb/year ...

The two-step extrusion method was used to manufacture pipe-grade high density polyethylene (HDPE) material from recycled HDPE. With the two-step extrusion method, dicumyl peroxide (DCP) can completely ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - Recyclable plastic containers with the No. 2 designation could become even more popular for manufacturers as plastic milk jugs, dish soap containers and shampoo bottles may soon get an ...

TORONTO (Oct. 10, 9:30 a.m. ET) — For the second straight year, post-consumer high density polyethylene recycling has remained stagnant. The North American recycling rate for HDPE remained at 29.9 ...

A manufacturer using regrind polyethylene material experienced difficulties with contamination of screen plates within an extruder. The problem was thought to be caused by contamination of the regrind ...

targets tough, stiff, high-clarity films, with processing possible on both linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) and low-density polyethylene (LDPE) film-line equipment. Processing and shrink ...

Mitsui Chemicals and Idemitsu Kosan, both in Tokyo, have signed a joint venture agreement that will combine their polyolefins businesses effective April 2005. The new firm, Prime Polymer Co., will be ...

Chemists can demonstrate how to make high-density polyethylene with better control over polymer chain lengths, which allows for improvement over physical properties such as processability and strength ...