SIBUR, the largest petrochemical holding company in Russia and Eastern Europe, opened the PolyLab research center based on Skolkovo, specializing in the development and testing of polymer products, the company’s press service reported. Thus, according to the report, the task of the PolyLab center is to expand the possibility of efficiently using polymers both in […]
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Month: May 2019
WWF launched a stream with a decaying # plastic bottle
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has launched a broadcast with a plastic bottle that decomposes in real time. Stream will be 450 years old – that is how long it will take for it to decompose completely. The purpose of this action is to draw attention to the problem of pollution of the […]
Prices of imported black pipe PE100 decreased in China
Prices for imported black pipe polyethylene (PE 100) for shipments in China fell in June amid weakening consumer sentiment, ICIS reported, citing market participants. Domestic prices of black PE 100 in China were at the level of CNY9 350 per ton, EXW, which is equivalent to the import price of about USD1 124 per ton. […]
Waste recycling in Lviv: a mini-station, which has no analogues in Ukraine
For the preservation of climate scale undertook in Lviv. There, all citizens will now know how to properly and correctly sort the garbage. Because it opened a special mini-sorting waste. Where not only collect and sort garbage, but also teach people how to throw it away. There are no analogs of such sorting in Ukraine, […]
LG Chem is preparing to launch a new brand of metallocene pipe polyethylene
Korean petrochemical concern LG Chem has developed a new metallocene grade of polyethylene PEX-a, designed for RAM-extrusion of pipes made of cross-linked polyethylene, according to the official Russian distributor website Ecoplastics. It is assumed that in 2020 the new brand mXLPE Lucene SL188 will completely replace the previous peroxidation XLPE produced by Korean company – […]
RULES OF WORK WITH BIG-BAGS
All the advantages of soft containers can be used provided that the container is properly selected for the type of cargo and the rules of handling are observed. The use of soft containers makes it possible to reduce overall labor costs, but subject to availability at the enterprise: • devices for loading (unloading) containers, • […]
Odorless composter: underground container for processing food waste
Today, everyone can contribute to the improvement of the ecological situation, and to do so with the benefit of their site. We are talking about the rejection of chemical fertilizers and the transition to natural organic fertilizer. The new subpod composting system allows you to recycle food waste so that the compost enters the soil […]
PP prices to China rose amid low stocks
Low stocks of polypropylene (PP) in China prompted Chinese suppliers to increase their price offers in the local market, ICIS reports, citing market participants. On May 22, Chinese manufacturer Sinopec increased the supply of major brands of PP homopolymer and PP copolymers at CNY100-150 per ton (USD14-22 per ton) to support the local market, a […]
In the Poltava region, firefighters all night extinguished the fire at the garbage dump
Firefighters of the Poltava region were engaged in extinguishing a fire at a city dump. Firefighters in the Poltava region took four hours to extinguish a fire at the municipal solid waste dump. It is reported by the press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Poltava region. The message about the […]
Ukrainian imports of polyethylene increased by 18% in January
According to the results of the first four months of the year, the total volume of polyethylene imports to the Ukrainian market grew by 18% compared with the same indicator in 2018 and amounted to about 90.2 thousand tons. An increase in external supplies was recorded for virtually all types of ethylene polymers. Last month, […]