Thanks to low-priced shale gas, another 1 billion pounds of polyethylene capacity is headed for North America. Sasol Ltd. and Ineos Group on July 24 announced plans to form a joint venture that would ...

Austria-based packaging producer Alpla Group says it has developed a “carbon-optimized prototype solution” for beauty product brand owners in the form of a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) bottle made ...

The durability and performance of High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE) geomembranes are of critical importance in environmental containment applications, particularly as liners in landfills and hazardous ...

Chemists at Argonne National Laboratory in DuPage County have worked out a new way to recycle certain plastics infinitely, a discovery that could change the way we recycle containers like those used ...

Chemists can demonstrate how to make high-density polyethylene with better control over polymer chain lengths, which allows for improvement over physical properties such as processability and strength ...