Rising oil prices, depleting oil reserves, total life cycle, impact on sustainable resources stricter use of legislations are major driving forces for the use of biopolymers. However, factors that will decide actual use of biodegradable polymers in the future will include suitability of material properties for converters, technical feasibility of processing options and commercial viability of production and processing. Read more in Biopolymer has good global growth prospects

Active packaging is a type of packaging that maintains or enhances food quality and/or safety by interacting with the package content or its environment. Market for active packaging continues to grow well. To know more about the various types, their market share, growth regions of the world, factors influencing growth, read Active packaging provides stimulus to additive growth

A leading PET manufacturing company has switched over its packaging PET grades to titanium catalysts and is now completely free from antimony catalyst system. Read in Titanium is a better catalyst in polymerization of PET

Propylene has been growing better than ethylene in the past and is expected to grow faster than ethylene in the next 5 years. A leading market research organization predicts that propylene will grow at an average rate of 5% from 2005 until 2010. Ethylene and propylene showed healthy growth in consumption