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Entries for tag: HDPE
Study shows HDPE market to have grown to over 30 million tons
Whether in carrying bags, bottle caps, or buckets: We use high density polyethylene (HDPE) daily. One third of all toys are manufactured from this thermoplast. Less often seen, but nevertheless vital goods produced from HDPE include water pipes, gas mains, oil tanks, and geomembranes. The lightweight, non-toxic material is easily recyclable and is increasingly being utilized as an alternative for less environmentally friendly substances. A new study from Ceresana Research now closely examines this important plastic market.
Read ArticleHDPE plant hits one million tonnes
LyondellBasell’s world-scale Hostalen Advanced Cascade Process (ACP) 320 KT per year HDPE plant, located in Wesseling, Germany, has produced one million tonnes of prime HDPE grades since start-up in 2004.
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Lumson create Victoria and Alexandra
Thanks to its product development department, today Lumson can offer more than 20 cosmetic Packaging lines/collections with more than 100 accessories that go from cosmetic pumps to overcaps, from jar covers to screwing caps to different type of dispensing systems; on top of this and to offer a 360° service, Lumson can also take care of all the decorations (screen printing, hot stamping, tampo printing, laquering, metallizations).
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Painting the fence fade resistant
Following the success of the container for Cuprinol Sprayable Fence Treatment, RPC Containers Raunds and Market Rasen are supplying the same pack for the launch of Cuprinol Sprayable Plus, a new premium fence treatment, which offers fade-resistant colour and high performance results.
Read ArticleResin that betters bottles
Using its proprietary Hostalen Advanced Cascade Process (ACP), Basell has launched a new high density polyethylene (HDPE) resin that offers converters of bottles for household chemicals and daily care products an outstanding combination of stiffness and environmental stress-cracking resistance (ESCR).
Read ArticleNew comfort standard from Borealis
Borealis, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, has launched a new high density polyethylene (HDPE) fibre grade for bicomponent applications. The new solution, VL9500, allows converters to produce stronger nonwovens with less material, delivering consistent, high quality products with enhanced comfort for the end users. The material can be used in the complex production of spunbonded or staple fibre nonwovens for demanding hygiene applications.
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Basell launching new resins
Basell is launching a new high performance range of developmental polypropylene resins called Stretchene which can address the highly specialised customer requirements of injection stretch blow moulding applications (ISBM).
Read ArticleCast HDPE growing in Russia
According to research company MRC, consumption of cast PE brands exceeded the level of 80 KT in 2006.
Read ArticleRussian HDPE growth strong
According to MRC, the Russian HDPE market will grown on average by 12% a year. Today, the consumption of HDPE per capita in Russia (a bit more than 4 kg) can be compared with such countries as China, Turkey, Brazil and Iran, but it is significantly lower than in Canada and Saudi Arabia.
Read ArticleBasell enhances PE
Basell has successfully developed an enhanced version of its well established Hostalen CRP 100 black high density polyethylene grade that can enable Basell customers to produce pressure pipes with increased resistance to slow crack propagation.
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Killing power
RPC Verpackungen Kutenholz has manufactured two new dosing bottles to extend the range of weedkillers from W. Neudorff GmbH K.G.
Read ArticleTamper evident closure introduced
Everything from a single source for the pharmaceutics industry: the Gerresheimer Group again consistently builds on this principle in its plastic packaging business. The latest result of this development is a new tamper-evident closure system for tablet containers which Gerresheimer manufactures internally, together with the integrated desiccant.
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