Ethylene gas crackers in North America have become prohibitively
expensive due to tremendous increase in gas feedstock, shortages
of contractors and equipment, coupled with increasing plant
construction costs. This makes new projects and expansion
of existing projects in the region economically unviable.
Higher availability of ethane gas will help the Middle East
region increase the capacity of polyethylene. They will
become the low cost polyethylene producers in the world
and will rule the markets of polyethylene, replacing USA's
supremacy. Read in Middle-Eastern petrochem producers will always have a cost advantage globally
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Scientists have developed a new catalyst
system based on silica, cobalt & nitrogen, more economical
than previous laboratory routes. The starting material used
for polymerization is propylene oxide and carbon monoxide.
The development promises PP-like performance with a 50%
reduction in oil consumption. It can be used in applications
as varied as film for shopping bags or sheet for yoghurt
cups, and injection mouldable products for several application
segments including automotive. Read in a polymerization process/catalyst system to produce biodegradable PHB
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Study shows that a human enzyme found in the lungs could convert styrene to styrene oxide, which is known to be tumorigenic, or a cancer causing agent. Will this new finding have implications for plant workers who are involved in processing industry manufacturing PS end products? Read in Can Styrene cause cancer on inhalation?
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Compounding is an important part of plastic conversion,
and is generally carried out separately from the conversion
process. It has become possible to manufacture the finished
product in one continuous process leading directly from
the raw materials because of the evolution of plastic processing
techniques and robotics. The markets of in-line compounding
that benefit from these savings include: Automotive, Packaging,
Electricity & Electronics, Appliances, Medical, Communications,
etc Read in Inline compounding offers some economic benefits
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