As one of the most commonly used plastics in the world, polypropylene presents a global environmental problem because of issues related to its recycling. Researchers have developed a new way of ...
Research at West Virginia University is exploring whether microwave technology can recover high yields of propylene from polypropylene plastic scrap. Research by Yuxin Wang (pictured) at West Virginia ...
Of all the plastics that surround us on the daily, the one we hear least about in the 3D printing world is probably polypropylene (PP). Given that this tough, slightly flexible thermoplastic has ...
Derived from used cooking oil, Braskem’s new mass-balanced Bio-Circular PP represents a significant step towards a circular economy, helping to displace fossil fuels PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ...
ExxonMobil, Milliken and Ravago have developed high-performance polypropylene (PP) compounds that incorporate recycled ...
MIDLAND, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shandong Shenda Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (Shenda), has selected UNIPOL™ Polypropylene Process Technology from The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) for its new 200 KTA ...
A flurry of demand and month-end deals super-charged commodity resin trading the last week of February, making it the best week at the PlasticsExchange since December. Spot prices continued to ratchet ...