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News 27.07.2023

Head and shoulders above the competitors

ELIX Polymers receives the ESG gold certification in environmental, social and governance responsibility from EcoVadis

News 18.07.2023

Certified Rhodianyl polymer with fully recycled content

Solvay to deliver high-quality recycled polyamide 6.6 for the consumer goods and engineering plastic markets

News 18.07.2023

Mission to achieve total quality control of the product

SACMI PVS10L offline PET preform QC machine: even more accurate controls and greater user-friendliness thanks to AI

News 18.07.2023

New joint advanced design and development center in Bavaria

Carbon and the Institute of Polymer Technology (LKT) at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg announced the opening

News 18.07.2023

Pure specialty materials player

Arkema broadens its range of high performance polymers with the acquisition of a controlling stake in PIAM

Сase studies

Eastman polymer pours into Japan’s glass pitcher market

HARIO - Japanese "King of glass” - adopts Eastman Tritan™ copolyester for its water pitcher offerings

News 13.07.2023

Additional sustainable material options for customers

SABIC launches new PCR-based NORYL™ portfolio to help customers reduce carbon footprint

News 13.07.2023

Reducing the carbon footprint for consumer products

HEXPOL TPE AB and Polykemi AB have collaborated on a 2K sustainable development project