LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has announced the top seven leading vendors in their recent global plastic additives market report. This research report also lists 12 other prominent vendors that ...

Specialty chemicals firm Vertellus sees a lot of opportunity in the plastics market, company officials said at the K 2019 trade show. The Indianapolis-based firm currently generates about 20 percent ...

PVC additives maker Rheogistics LLC has been sold to wax supplier International Group Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Rheogistics of Picayune, Miss., makes lubricant systems for rigid PVC. The firm's ...

A new study has found that chemical additives in everyday plastic might be stopping – or, at best, interrupting – the reproductive habits of a shrimp-like species that is key to the marine food chain.

New research shows that additives in plastic materials deployed or thrown in coastal environments diffuse into the environment at different rates. Their findings demonstrate how assessments of ...

A new study by Tel Aviv University and the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat examined the effect of plastic additives on the reproductive process and larvae development of corals ...

Manufacturers that use plastics in their production processes have heard loud and clear that sustainability is increasingly important in every link of the plastics supply chain, all the way down to ...

Plastic pollution has been at the center of environmental debate for decades. While it is well-known that plastic in the environment can break down into microplastics, be ingested by humans and other ...

Seagull eggs have been found to be contaminated with chemical additives used in plastic production. A study looked for evidence of phthalates – a group of chemicals added to plastics to keep them ...