Bullet train (Shinkansen) operator  Central Japan Railway and Sekisui Chemical have concluded a joint development contract to develop...

Plastics Information Europe (PIE) did a stellar job of covering the latest update of our global market report for polyolefin elastomers...

The Renewable Energy Statistics 2024 released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) on July 11 this year indicates that...

Born out of the need for lightweight and wearable chainmail for The Lord of the Rings trilogy of films, Kaynemaile (paywall-protected...

If there's one industry whose future is difficult to gage in terms of volume shipments, then it must be solar panels. A recent article in...

Fast-emerging TOPCon cell structure promotes shift to POE encapsulant. High cost of POE pushes sheet makers to innovate with multilayer...

DuPont has agreed to divest an 80.1% share in the Delrin polyacetal (POM) homopolymer business to private equity company TJC LP. The is...

Korea’s Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical has completed construction of a polyolefin elastomer (POE) pilot plant, representing a...

Sabic has teamed up with solar module maker Solarge to develop lightweight photovoltaic (PV) modules employing polypropylene (PP). The PP...

Badenova is installing 912 glass-glass PV modules along a cycling path in the city of Freiburg, Germany, as part of a new pilot project....

Back in the day, when the main market for polyolefin elastomers (POEs) was impact modification of polypropylene automotive compounds,...

Sabic and its partner SK geo centric (SKGC) have announced their intent to expand capacity for polyolefin elastomer and plastomers...

Global investment in renewable energy totaled $226 billion in the first half of 2022, setting a new record for the first six months of a...

India and South Korea inked a comprehensive economic partnership agreement in 2009, with ethylene-vinyl-acetate (EVA) resin being one of...

Amidst a backdrop of EU initiatives to reduce reliance on Russian oil and gas, renewables such as solar will be major beneficiaries. The...

LG Chem has developed a plastic material that can replace the metal in solar panel frames for the first time in Korea and has started...

Installation of solar modules is growing at a double-digit rate globally, which is welcome news for materials suppliers.