Most Recent Articles from British Plastics & Rubber

• Automotive business, very good or horrid?(comment) 

  Page 16 this month has an interesting juxtaposition of stories about injection moulders. Holloid Plastics is investing for growth and getting it;...

  09/01/09 by Grace, Ken · More from publication

• Polymers, blends, alloys ... now what?(comment) 

  As if the plethora of polymer types wasn't already enough to cope with, the chemists are devising ways to bring us more. While strictly speaking...

  09/01/09 by Grace, Ken · More from publication

• Happy birthday to SR.(comment) 

  I can't go without saying happy birthday to synthetic rubber. As I write this it is 100 years to the day (September 12, 1909) that Professor...

  09/01/09 by Grace, Ken · More from publication

• MPE blend cuts gauge of heavy duty bag film.(feature: packaging) 

  By blending two metallocene polyethylenes ExxonMobil Chemical has cut the gauge needed for heavy duty bags in the Far East. The standard gauge...

  09/01/09 · More from publication

• High speed homopolymer improves on RCPP.(feature: packaging) 

  A new injection moulding grade polypropylene from SABIC combines clarity with high stiffness for thin-walled transparent products. PP FPH50 is a...

  09/01/09 · More from publication

• New HD film grades have high barrier and puncture-resistance.(feature: packaging) 

  Two new medium molecular weight, HDPE grades have been added to LyondellBasell's Alathon series. Alathon solution technology film grades have...

  09/01/09 · More from publication

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