"The ban of scrap/waste plastics is definitely positive for polyethylene producers as there will be a shift of consumption from recycled polyethylene to prime virgins polyethylene," said J.P. Nah, director of polyolefins at IHS Markit Chemical.
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"Children and parents will not notice any difference in the quality or appearance of the new elements, because plant-based polyethylene has the same properties as conventional polyethylene," Brooks said.
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"Children and parents will not notice any difference in the quality or appearance of the new elements, because plant-based polyethylene has the same properties as conventional polyethylene," he said in a statement.
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Slip any sheets of paper in 100 percent polyethylene sleeves.
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Some were given 1.8 grams of either polyethylene or polystyrene.
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Notably absent from the discussion is Dow's polyethylene (PE) business.
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These facilities manufacture products, such as polyethylene and synthetic lubricant.
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Gold and polyethylene glycol are both popular choices for nanoparticles.
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Polyethylene is about 15 to 20 percent of our cost.
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Most plastic cutting boards are made of polyethylene or polypropylene.
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The polyethylene sheath had been mauled, thanks to crocodile sharks.
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Adidas uses plastic bottles that contain polyethylene terephthalate, or PET.
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The polyethylene can be either sanitized between uses or replaced.
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The most common plastics found were polypropylene and polyethylene terephthalate.
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It is aluminum metalized polyethylene terephthalate — in a word, glitter.
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Specifically stored there, McMurry said, were HDPE -- high-density polyethylene -- pipes.
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The biggest one is polyethylene; the rest are frost-proof ceramic.
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Aluminum metalized polyethylene terephthalate settles over store windows like dazzling frost.
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Globally, many plastic bottles are made from polyethylene terephthalate, or PET.
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The plant will increase Qatar's polyethylene output capacity by 82%, Kaabi added.
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They chewed through 1.1 grams of polyethylene and 0.98 grams of polystyrene.
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A "1" consists of the same chemicals as polyester, technically polyethylene terephthalate.
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Polyethylene is used in packaging, pipes, bottles, plastics and other composite materials.
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The company sees no viable alternative yet to polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles.
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For additional protection against water damage wrap the capsule in a polyethylene bag.
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The complex will help boost Qatar's polyethylene output capacity by 82%, Kaabi said.
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The leftover contents are from polyethylene plastic and aluminum, which aren't so great.
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Disposable cups are often laminated with plastic or polyethylene to make them waterproof.
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Some of the most common high-volume synthetic polymers include polyethylene, used to make film wraps and plastic bags; polypropylene, used to form reusable containers and packaging; and polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, used in clothes, carpets and clear plastic beverage bottles.
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Gold is nontoxic and stable, while polyethylene glycol also adds stability, according to Gendelman.
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"In this case, the absence of things tells us it's polyethylene," Mr. Doutre said.
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Most, though, were of polyethylene terephthalate, a light plastic, and had once held drinks.
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A rectangular head measuring six- by 17-inches that's constructed from durable polyethylene foam.
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Compressed beverage cartons made of cardboard, polyethylene, and aluminum sit in a specialized paper factory.
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NASA uses this stuff—gel spun polyethylene—on some of their solar sails, Wagner says.
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However, polyethylene demand for the devices is expected to increase in absolute terms, said Vallabhan.
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It's estimated that next year global production of polyethylene alone will reach 100 million tons.
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Christo manufactured a modular floating network of docks made of 220,000 high-density polyethylene cubes.
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The team found the wax worms broke down polyethylene plastic bags faster than other methods.
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If you want to grow in chemicals, then logically you want to grow in polyethylene.
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Only 25% of the most recyclable plastic, polyethylene terephthalate, actually gets properly sorted and recycled.
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Polyethylene tubing connects the ice stupa to a source on higher ground, drawing water downhill.
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Option on polyethylene (PE), improving FCF profile, and a commitment to capital return keep us bullish.
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We did together with the one of the leaders, if not the leader, in polyethylene polypropylene.
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And that, experiments have shown, can be done by attaching polyethylene glycol (PEG) molecules to it.
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Those fed only polyethylene found it very agreeable, polishing off 0.87 of their 1.8-gram helping.
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Taking ethylene and we will make polyethylene and we will make PET to substitute for fiber.
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The bag has two linings of high-density polyethylene, and an outer layer of woven polypropylene.
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The cooler's shell is made of a common plastic called polyethylene with a process called rotomolding.
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They then applied polyethylene glycol to the incision of seven dogs and also delivered electrical stimulation.
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The product, only slightly cheaper than fire-resistant alternatives, has a polyethylene core that is combustible.
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The other uses what Carlsberg described as a "100% bio-based" polyethylene furanoate polymer film barrier.
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Ethylene and polyethylene pellets are then shipped back north to supply plants that make plastics products.
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Polyethylene is a plastic used in many products, from food packaging and containers to automotive components.
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Then there was Dyneema, an ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene used in boat cables and body armor.
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Road to recycling Shisalanga uses high-density polyethylene (HDPE), a thick plastic typically used for milk bottles.
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The panels that were installed are made up of two sheets of aluminum and a polyethylene core.
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Those on polyethylene have fallen by a third since 2014, with another 25% tumble forecast for 2016.
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The species fully breaks down one of the most common kinds of plastic called Polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
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Some 5033,2503 high-density polyethylene cubes have been attached together and anchored by divers for the project.
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U.S. oil majors and chemical companies have announced major investments in the petrochemical plants that produce polyethylene.
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That plastic, known as polyethylene, makes the cups liquid-proof but is hard to reprocess for recycling.
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One prototype uses a recycled polyethylene terephthalate polymer film barrier, which acts as a thin internal lining.
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Arconic sells a flammable polyethylene version of its Reynobond cladding and a more expensive, fire-resistant version.
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Then, on Thursday, the company confirmed that its flammable polyethylene panels had been used on the building.
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The price of polyethylene, a popular polymer, has already fallen by a third since the start of 2018.
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Dow said it had taken measures to boost prices, adding that prices for polyethylene had risen in September.
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Revenue from the segment, which includes its global ethylene and polyethylene business, fell 15% in the second quarter.
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The cladding was made from a product called Reynobond PE, panels of aluminum with a polyethylene plastic core.
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Very. The team found the wax worms broke down polyethylene plastic bags faster than other recently-tested methods.
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It is a species of polyethylene sheet perforated by pores 50-1,000 nanometres (billionths of a metre) across.
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The most visible portion of the device is a 2,000-foot pipe made of high-density polyethylene plastic.
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The most common plastics detected were polypropylene and polyethylene terephthalate — both major components of plastic bottles and caps.
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The soil and water were contaminated with a complex unnatural substance only humans could have created: polyethylene terephthalate.
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The green and tan sandbox is made of high-density recycled polyethylene that is rust and water-resistant.
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Engadget explains the technical details:Usually the separator is a boring polymer like polyethylene, the world's most commonly used plastic.
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LEGO is using sugarcane to produce a specific, softer type of plastic, called polyethylene, for its plants and bushes.
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I thought of Google X's Project Loon, which is a plan to fill the skies with glittering polyethylene balloons.
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This new material is made of plastic (a form of polyethylene, or the material in ClingWrap), carbon, and copper.
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PET, or polyethylene terephthalate, is a widely used thermoplastic resin to manufacture bottles for soda, juices and other drinks.
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To check, they turned to polyethylene, which is both more common than polystyrene and very different in chemical terms.
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The complex would process crude at international prices to make polyethylene, polypropylene, xylene, benzene and other products, Nasser said.
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So plain polyethylene won't work, but Cui's team proved that a different, opaque form can still keep us cool.
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Using polyethylene glycol to dissolve the plant cell walls, the moss can be manipulated to absorb selective patchouli DNA.
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At the high end you could try Marset's Soho Pendant, a large shaded factory-inspired fixture made of polyethylene.
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And might different types of plastic, like polystyrene and polyethylene, swirl in water and blow in the winds differently?
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The spread between prices for polyethylene and feedstock naphtha gives an approximation of how much profit petrochemical makers can make.
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But Steve Mould has discovered a liquid that laughs at gravity and other forces that govern our universe: polyethylene oxide.
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One material lets that heat out: polyethylene, but no one wants to wear ClingWrap because it's thin (and see-through).
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Exxon will ship a "significant portion" of its polyethylene production from the Mont Belvieu plant from the port of Houston.
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For the tether material, he has his eye on Dyneema, a polyethylene plastic fiber that's 15 times stronger than steel.
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Three men were trying to hoist one end of a black polyethylene pipe from the riverbank up to the plateau.
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In Lidback's view, one of the targeted items that stands out is polyethylene, one of the most widely used plastics.
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The creature can chomp through plastic, even polyethylene, a common and non-biodegradable plastic currently clogging up landfills and seas.
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There's even a vegan twist, as the straps are made of cork, cotton, linen and recycled PET, or polyethylene terephthalate.
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Most plastics are organic polymers, hence the "poly" in the names of many kinds of plastic: polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, polypropylene.
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Another great polyethylene option is Modoluce's Campanone Pendant, also offered in two diameters: 13 inches ($1,000) and 20 inches ($1,4483).
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The big picture: The group aims to speed deployment of BP's "Infinia" technology for recycling polyethylene terephthalate plastic packaging waste.
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Qatar produces about 2,300 tonnes per year of polyethylene, and the plant will raise its output potential to about 4,300 tonnes.
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Microbeads — often labelled as polyethylene — settle into ocean sediment and can be ingested by marine life, resulting in severe health impacts.
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Microbeads, often labelled as polyethylene, are small plastic beads generally ranging from 0.1 to 0.5 millimetres in length, according to Greenpeace.
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The cladding, a product called Reynobond PE made by U.S. firm Arconic, was made out of aluminum with a polyethylene core.
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Unipetrol has also said it would complete a new polyethylene unit (PE3) but has not detailed its planned investment in Spolana.
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Today, plastic bottles made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) are largely broken down through mechanical recycling — it's separated, shredded, washed and melted.
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This faces a sculpture titled "Eat/Memorial for Maria" that is made from wood, paint, fluorescent bulbs, polyethylene sheets, and tape.
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An adhesive called polyethylene glycol will be used to connect the volunteer's head with the spinal cord of the donor's body.
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"For me, it's polyethylene or it's polypropylene," said Ms. Lagana, a guess based on the feel and smell of the vase.
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A piece of polyethylene sheeting is attached to the visor to act as a protective barrier between healthcare workers and patients.
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American shoppers use more than 100 billion lightweight polyethylene plastic bags each year, and only a small portion are ever recycled.
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Transparent faceplates measuring 9 by 13 inches are cut from large sheets of polyethylene using a laser cutter or cutting die.
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The work Huang and his team are doing focuses on polyethylene, used in everything from bags to toys and food packaging.
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"It's a process involving metathesis between polyethylene and the shorter alkanes which are very cheap and have low values," he added.
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At the 500-acre factory in Richmond, heat and pressure are applied to the polyethylene fabric, it's then flattened and rolled.
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Mohseni said the polyethylene facilities and the sour gas pipelines in vicinity of the 42-inch gas pipeline were not damaged.
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Byproducts from oil and gas drilling are the inputs for chemicals such as polyethylene, the most commonly used plastic in manufacturing.
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Only certain types of plastic can float and collect within the patch, namely polyethylene and polypropylene, which are typically used in packaging.
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"Sam is v smart he invented democracy AND polyethylene terephthalate," on fan joked on Twitter with an accompanying video of the goof.
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One of the most persistent constituents of rubbish dumps is polyethylene, which is composed entirely of methylene bridges linked to one another.
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The patch is now over twice the size of Texas and is rich in the most common type of plastic, called polyethylene.
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Five years ago, a ton of recycled polyethylene plastic — the stuff typically used in soft-drink bottles — went for more than $22016.
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Five years ago, a ton of recycled polyethylene plastic — the stuff typically used in soft-drink bottles — went for more than $2000.
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One unit will convert natural gas into chemicals used in plastic, and the other will be a polyethylene plant, both in Texas.
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And the decline in plastic scrap is due to oil prices and overcapacity in the polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, resin manufacturing industry.
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IHS Markit expects China's polyethylene demand to grow by 6.6 percent from 2017 to 2018, outpacing Asia's overall growth of 5.5 percent.
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As we entered the school there was a heap of uncollected trash full of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, nylon sachets and styrofoam.
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The most visible portion of the device is a 2,000-foot-long pipe made of high-density polyethylene, a type of plastic.
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The purified DMT and MEG are then turned back into PET, polyethylene terephthalate, which is the base material for many plastic products.
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About 25 different Lego shapes, many of them plants, will now be made from sugarcane-based polyethylene rather than oil-based plastic.
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The cracker will process ethane, which is abundantly available from U.S shale gas at competitive prices, and will supply Bayport polyethylene units.
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Ahmadzadeh said the company would soon start selling polypropylene and low-pressure polyethylene from SOCAR's polymer plant, which started operating in August.
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Further, and perhaps even more importantly, 70 percent of the nation's polyethylene market is within a day's driving distance of the resources.
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When he compared the three products, the only ingredients they had in common were salt (sodium chloride) and something called polyethylene glycol.
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"Orbital Reflector" is a 100-foot-long, diamond-shaped polyethylene balloon coated with titanium dioxide so shiny that it looks like mylar.
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Officials say that the fuel for the fire was a large cache of high-density polyethylene conduit being stored under the freeway.
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On top of 220,000 interlocking polyethylene cubes, Christo installed a glowing unfenced walkway connecting an island in the lake with the shore.
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What it does not contain may be more newsworthy: no petrolatum, sulfates, parabens, phthalates, oxybenzone, talc, polyethylene glycol, formaldehyde, or retinyl palmitate.
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L) subsidize the collection of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), the plastic commonly used in their bottles, because the margins are too low in Kenya.
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Arconic provided aluminum and polyethylene cladding (metal exterior panels) that investigators believe contributed to the fire at the West London residential high-rise.
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Made of some 220,000 high-density polyethylene cubes covered with shimmering yellow fabric, the piers have suffered more wear and tear than expected.
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Globally, the spot prices of certain plastics components like polyethylene and polypropylene are often influenced by pricing of an oil derivative called naphtha.
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The U.S. Gulf Coast II Petrochemical Project will include a 2,000 kilotons per year (KTA) ethylene cracker and two 1,000 KTA polyethylene units.
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Total Refining & Petrochemicals has stakes in both Qatar Petrochemicals Company (QAPCO), operating a petrochemical complex manufacturing ethylene and low-density polyethylene, and QATOFIN.
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Nah said Asia's 2017 total polyethylene demand would be around 41.5 million tonnes, with China accounting for some two-thirds of total demand.
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"A recycled PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottle has a much lower carbon footprint than an aluminium can or a returned glass bottle," said Quincey.
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Step 2: The plastic is processed into flakes and washed again to ensure there is nothing left but 100% RPET (recycled polyethylene terephthalate).
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The company's decision in June 260 to build the plant opened the third stage of gas development: the production of ethane and polyethylene.
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The new Smile for Good toothpaste tube is made from high density polyethylene (HDPE) -- that's the same plastic used for making milk jugs.
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The ethane cracker will produce ethylene from U.S. feedstock and send it to the 400,000 ton per year polyethylene plant in Bayport, Texas.
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Keep an eye out for luggage that is constructed from PET (polyethylene terephthalate), the thermoplastic polymer which is also used for plastic bottles.
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Steil, the general counsel for a company that produces polyethylene film, has already started to cast Bryce as unfit for the district's priorities.
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Made of polyethylene, it's waterproof, mostly stainproof, and it rolls up into a purse-sized tote so folding it up is a breeze.
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We did in Germany a first ever world scale trial on the planets to produce polyethylene and polypropylene together and that was extremely successful.
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Image: Federica Bertocchini, Paolo Bombelli, and Chris HoweIn experiments, the researchers exposed 100 caterpillars to a plastic polyethylene bag obtained at a UK supermarket.
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Headquartered in Milton, Wisconsin, Charter NEX is a producer of specialty polyethylene film for food and consumer packaging and for industrial and medical applications.
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Another recent study found record levels of plastics frozen in Arctic sea ice, much of it the polyethylene commonly found in single-use packaging.
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The Queen Rose Pregnancy and Maternity Pillow manages to be both soft and supportive thanks to a generous volume of high-density polyethylene filling.
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Shell ended its polyethylene production in 2005 in the face of increasing costs and growing competition, but it began evaluating a return in 2012.
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Without a green light from the FCC, Paglen's 100-foot-long, diamond-shaped polyethylene balloon will remain deflated and tethered to the other satellites.
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The cracker would produce ethylene and other basic petrochemical products, while the olefin downstream facilities would churn out high-value petrochemical products including polyethylene.
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The exterior cladding on the tower — sheets of aluminum composite material, encasing a flammable polyethylene insulation — has been blamed for accelerating the fire's spread.
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The Shell facility near Pittsburgh will use ethane produced in the Marcellus and Utica basins to make 1.6 million tons of polyethylene a year.
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The mattresses will also be made of recyclable products, namely polyethylene materials that will be reused for plastic products once the Games have concluded.
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No aluminum cladding made with pure polyethylene — the type used at Grenfell Tower — has ever passed the test, experts in the United States say.
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The three companies that were rehired to replace the cladding on 29 of the towers had all originally fitted aluminum panels with polyethylene cores.
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The bulk of the expansion will take place in Beaumont, Texas, with plans to expand polyethylene production, oil refining capacity and liquefied natural gas exports.
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System 001, as the contraption has been christened, is a hollow cylinder 600 metres long and 1.2 metres in diameter, itself made of plastic (polyethylene).
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PET, or polyethylene terephthalate, is used as a raw material for making packaging materials such as bottles and containers for packaging and other consumer goods.
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"European production is less than 2 million tons annually, compared to 10 million tons of polypropylene and 15 million tons of polyethylene," notes Jean Viallefont.
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The 53-foot-wide "Floating Pier" consists of 200,000 cubes of high-density polyethylene, and it's tethered to the lake bed—but with no guardrail.
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A small population of a thousand worms, they reckon, might manage to devour 0.32 grams of polyethylene or 0.28 grams of polystyrene in a day.
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The kit comes with a clear polyethylene cover, roll-up zippered door, tubular steel frame, four 18-inch deep shelves, guy ropes, and metal stakes.
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The company has defended is dividend level, saying it is building a new 8.5 billion crown polyethylene unit and completing repairs to the steam cracker.
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Mammadov said that SOCAR would increase production of polypropylene and polyethylene at its new SOCAR Polymer enterprise this year, bringing total volume to 100,000 tonnes.
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The aluminum panels, which had a polyethylene plastic core were called Reynobond PE, and made by New York-based ArconicInc, previously known as Alcoa Inc.
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The University of Portsmouth said that the "mutant" enzyme was also able to degrade polyethylene furandicarboxylate, which is a bio-based substitute for PET plastics.
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Polyethylene makes up only about 9 percent of the total plastics used in medical devices because of its higher cost over competing plastic polyvinyl chloride.
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A form of polyethylene — the common plastic that makes up ClingWrap — is a promising candidate for a textile that prevents us from overheating, researchers say.
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Plans were switched to a conventional office building, with a steel frame and a facade made of Alucobond, aluminum sheets bonded to a polyethylene core.
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Some analysts, though, have said the offer looked low given Unipetrol's outlook once it opens a new polyethylene unit, an investment worth 8.5 billion crowns.
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The cladding was made from a product called Reynobond PE, panels of aluminum with a polyethylene plastic core that the lawsuit describes as highly flammable.
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Despite such remote habitats, Jamieson's team found plastic and synthetic fibres such as nylon, polyethylene, and polyvinyl alcohol in the guts of most amphipods they examined.
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The aluminum panels, which had a polyethylene plastic core were called Reynobond PE, and made by New York-based Arconic Inc, previously known as Alcoa Inc.
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He was "like a movie director," said Christo, whom Szeemann invited to wrap the Kunsthalle museum in Bern, Switzerland, in reinforced polyethylene in 1968 (pictured, above).
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Instead of being a cheap polyethylene moulding or a metal pressing, they are fabricated from filaments of carbon fibre wound around a metal or polymer liner.
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Your standard-issue, high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plastic bag is responsible for plenty of planetary damage, like getting stuck in trees or being ingested by animals.
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The state was storing high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes and fiberglass conduits under the I-85 overpass, and the fire spread to the pipes, McMurry said.
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Exxon was restarting the Beaumont polyethylene plant because the portion of the refinery and chemical plant complex where it is located is dry, the company said.
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Materials like polyethylene are transparent to both, making them useless for weaving into clothing for anyone other than exhibitionists—though such clothes would dissipate IR effectively.
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The blue Chemturion suits are made of a chlorinated polyethylene, or type of plastic, designed to resist chemicals, according to the website of Delaware-based ILC.
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The new first of two lines turning out polyethylene — the most common plastic used in manufacturing — will increase the plant's output by 26,000 tons per year.
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The bags, also being used in a crop-storage project in Malawi, have two linings of high-density polyethylene and an outer layer of woven polypropylene.
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None of the controls could walk afterward, but all of the polyethylene glycol-injected rats regained at least some of their walking ability a month afterward.
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Indeed, in Clement Clarke Moore's seminal Christmas Eve poem, the eyes of Saint Nicholas himself are said to twinkle like aluminum metalized polyethylene terephthalate (I'm paraphrasing).
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Economically speaking, replacing the most widely used polymers like polyethylene (grocery bags), polypropylene (fishing nets) or polyterephthalate (single-use bottles) with unzipping polymers is not feasible.
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Currently, their technology was limited to the degradation of polyethylene, but Huang said the hope was to develop a way of degrading other types of plastic.
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It's made from ultra-flexible, BPA-free polyethylene and nylon that adjusts to the amount of liquid in it and can be rolled, folded, or flattened.
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So far, the industry hasn't seen shortages and price spikes because factories are burning through their inventory of plastics like polyethylene, which come in small pellets.
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On March 23, the head of the secret service gave a news conference saying perfume disguised as polyethylene film was allowed to pass through Odessa customs.
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You're allowed to put milk cartons "with any plastic parts removed" in the compost, which in this case would mean somehow stripping the polyethylene inside and out.
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The investment plans include the expansion of the company's cracker in Texas and the construction of a 600,000 metric ton polyethylene unit in the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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Once the city's old cast-iron pipes are fully replaced by polyethylene ones, the challenge will be to prove that hydrogen can be delivered safely at scale.
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An 80-foot-long flatbed scanner examines swaths of polyethylene for the microscopic defects that can reduce a balloon's survival at 60,000 feet from months to days.
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The sleek, slender polyethylene hull of this 14-foot-long, 24.75-inch-wide, 53-pound boat slides over still water and slices through chop with remarkable ease.
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The enzyme can also degrade polyethylene furandicarboxylate, or PEF, a bio-based substitute for PET plastics that is being hailed as a replacement for glass beer bottles.
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Many multinationals are scrambling to support recycling, stung by criticism from environmentalists over pollution and keen to be able to re-use valuable polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic.
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You'd have to reuse a paper bag at least three times before its environmental impact equaled that of a high-density polyethylene plastic bag used only once.
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BioCellection's solution builds on research from over ten years ago, Wang explains, when a US study discovered pure polyethylene powder could be broken down by a catalyst.
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ThredUP, founded in 2009, is known for its polka-dotted polyethylene film bags that can be filled with unwanted clothing that consumers want to sell or donate.
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Critics caution that more research must be done before it can be determined whether the bacteria can be used as a viable way to degrade polyethylene terephthalate.
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As an example, my lab has developed a yeast catalyst that takes plant-derived oils and converts them to a polyester that has properties similar to polyethylene.
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The company also announced that its LIFEWTR brand would only be sold in 100% recycled polyethylene terephthalate and its bubly product will no longer be packaged in plastic.
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"By joining forces with Borealis and Nova, we aim to create a major player in the US polyethylene market," Total's Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne said in a statement.
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The powder is mixed with a HDPE (high-density polyethylene) resin, which is compostable or photodegradable, meaning it decomposes over time from sunlight, leaving only calcium carbonate behind.
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They combed through data on every possible plastic type they could find, from the rigid PVC that makes piping to the thinner polyethylene that makes up plastic bags.
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People have spent decades trying to figure out a better method for disposing of polyethylene, to replace our current approach of just letting it tumble into the ocean.
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The designers constructed the fancy sneakers with a special blend of polyester, polyethylene, and elastane, which gives them the crinkled look and feel of a sheet of paper.
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But there's one thing that continues to bedevil even the most sustainably minded brands: low-density, polyethylene, #4 virgin plastic film bags, known in the industry as polybags.
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Interesting tidbit: did you know that, according to Stanford, each ounce of polyethylene (PET), the material commonly used in making beverage bottles, emits five ounces of carbon dioxide?
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In Loon's Balloon Forensics Lab, Pam Desrochers uses an 80-foot-long flatbed scanner to examine swaths of polyethylene for microscopic defects and signs of wear after flight.
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Compounding the woes for chemical makers is an oversupply of ethylene and polyethylene used in making plastics from the United States, China and Korea that has hurt prices.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. International Trade Commission on Tuesday said its preliminary findings pointed to harm to U.S. producers from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resin imported from five countries.
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The council said it was informing the contractor which installed the cladding, made up of aluminum panels with a polyethylene core, that it was taking urgent legal advice.
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The source material is the most common type of plastic, polyethylene, which is predicted to reach a global annual demand of nearly 100 million metric tons by 2018.
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Eva Tolkin has the sort of polyethylene-clear voice that most pop singers would kill for, something that conveys intimacy even when she's backed by hyper-synthetic thrums.
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Braskem and Mexican partner Idesa invested $5.2 billion in the Etileno XXI complex that started up in June to turn ethane gas into ethylene and polyethylene per year.
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The national market demand for polyethylene is projected to increase to 2200 million metric tons over the next two decades, up from 240 million metric tons last year.
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When completed and operational in the early 2020s, the Shell plant will turn 1.6 billion gallons of ethane into 3.3 billion pounds of little white polyethylene beads annually.
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After the tumor is removed, a 3D-printed porous polyethylene implant made in Australia will be put in to replace the skull and facial bones removed with the tumor.
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Sibur and Sinopec have also signed a distribution agreement to supply polyethylene to China from Sibur's ZapSibNeftekhim site, the plant that plays the milestone role in its IPO plans.
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Mac DeMarco is standing near the edge of an in-ground pool, trying to pinch a polyethylene foam noodle with his big toe and the one next to it.
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Though analysts say polyethylene profit margins are already at their narrowest in around seven years, ballooning supplies could drive them even lower - placing high-cost producers under critical pressure.
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Qatar produces about 2,300 tonnes of polyethylene, which is widely used in the packaging industry, a year and the plant will raise its output potential to about 4,300 tonnes.
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The waters surrounding them are 300 feet deep; the 50-foot-wide piers, made of some 200,000 polyethylene cubes wrapped in yellow fabric, will barely rise above the surface.
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That is, in part, because recycling polyethylene terephthalate (PET), the polymer used to make such bottles, back into material robust enough to hold, say, a fizzy drink, is hard.
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A report by fire safety engineer Barbara Lane listed multiple safety failings, including the flammable aluminum-and polyethylene cladding installed on the tower&aposs facade during a recent renovation.
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Supermarkets, pharmacies and retailers in Panama must stop using traditional polyethylene plastic bags immediately, while wholesale stores will have until 2020 to conform to the policy approved in 2018.
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Wangchuk said that three sets of high-density polyethylene pipes are being used to carry away water, enabling a total discharge of 150-180 litres of water per second.
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Total said it aimed to become a major player in the U.S. polyethylene market when it announced the joint venture in March 2017 with Borealis and Canada's Nova Chemical.
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The building boom is being driven by a surge in U.S. natural gas output, which has yielded a cheap and abundant source of byproducts that go into American polyethylene.
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Last year, "The Floating Piers," a yellow-orange walkway of fabric atop 220,000 interlocking polyethylene cubes on Lake Iseo in the Lombardy region of Italy, drew 1.2 million visitors.
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Plastic bags can take hundreds of years to degrade, and polyethylene bags can strangle sea turtles and fill the stomachs of whales and dolphins until they die of starvation.
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The plant will help Shell capture a larger share of the U.S. market for polyethylene, more than half of which is concentrated in northern states from Maine to Minnesota.
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In May 2018, the Eni subsidiary, Eni Trading and Shipping (ETS) — at the time chaired by Mantovani — paid 25 million euros for a polyethylene purchase from Napag, sources said.
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Total said it expects the joint venture to be established in late 2017 and a final investment decision on the polyethylene unit will be taken simultaneously by the JV partners.
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The recent discovery of plastic-munching microbes has ignited hopes that we might be able to degrade polyethylene naturally, but so far, biological degradation has proven difficult to scale up.
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In experiments, Flake and his colleagues used a semi-closed, fluid-filled artificial environment consisting of a polyethylene "Biobag" that uses the infant's umbilical cord to create an oxygen circuit.
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In the 22017s, outdoorsy folks began using durable polyethylene bottles from a Rochester, New York-based laboratory supply company called Nalge for storing water and other liquids during hiking trips.
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It consists of a thin strip of tin oxide coated in a polymer layer (polyethylene glycol, which is kind of in everything) which itself is embedded in tiny gold dots.
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In 2013, researchers found that bees were collecting polyurethane (foam used in furniture) and polyethylene plastics (used in plastic bags and bottles) to make nests, in combination with natural materials.
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The scientists used special software to identify and analyze the particles collected by the mesh, that could tell them what kinds of plastics they'de found, such as nylon and polyethylene.
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The grubs are able to chop through several types of the stuff, even non-biodegradable polyethylene, which makes them a potential weapon in the world's efforts to combat plastic waste.
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Beyond fuel for cars and jets, ethanol can also be converted into ethylene and then polyethylene to make plastic products, an area that LanzaTech hopes to explore in the future.
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Unfortunately, that won't be happening, and Vanneste says it will be impossible for would-be beer criminals to tap into the polyethylene tubes, which he claims are stronger than steel.
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Stress from the constant movement of the pipe — an estimated 1.4 million fluctuations caused by swells and wind over four months — probably led the high-density polyethylene to snap, Slat said.
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Finding ways to accelerate the degradation process has proved challenging, but the 2016 discovery of an enzyme that exclusively eats Polyethylene terephthalate (PETs)—the plastic found in water bottles—offered hope.
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Less than 1 percent of the billions of coffee cups used in the UK every year are actually recycled due to a plastic polyethylene coating that's used to make them waterproof.
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The artist had for some time been making three-dimensional constructions out of various plastics; her primary material is now high-density polyethylene, the plastic currently used for most beverage containers.
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The complex, which produces polyethylene, is operated by Uzbekistan's state oil and gas company Uzbekneftegaz, a strategic partner of Russian state gas company Gazprom which is a major shareholder in Gazprombank.
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Braskem also plans $117 million of investments in Europe and the United States, with a Texas plant starting to produce UTEC, a high-performance polyethylene, in the second half of 2016.
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This led to a wonderful idea: What if these so-called pests could actually help break down polyethylene, a common and non-biodegradable plastic currently clogging up landfills around the world?
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China's position as a key Asian producer of disposable medical devices will add to the country's demand for polyethylene, said Nikhil Vallabhan, a senior consultant at Frost & Sullivan for Asia Pacific.
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It's true that Lego now uses a plant-based polyethylene plastic for a small percentage of its pieces, but it's misleading for Kormann to compare this to banning microbeads and straws.
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Lego's new plastic is otherwise similar to that used in traditional polyethylene products, and will break down into the same kind of microplastic as that currently swirling in the world's oceans.
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Using tape, polyethylene, and casting skills, Mark Jenkins and Sandra Fernandez wrap and shape bodily figures, position them in sometimes-overlooked public places, and let both charm and alarm take over.
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"We have too much plastic," said Ms. Idrissi, who in 2016 made a maze out of 17 tons of polyethylene bottles in Marrakesh to coincide with the COP22 climate change conference.
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Square Feet The oil and gas company is returning to the polyethylene market, building a 386-acre plant on the site of a long-shuttered zinc smelter on the Ohio River.
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Instead, new parts are being assembled by Bechtel, Shell's primary contractor, into a world-scale, state-of-the-art chemical processor to convert liquid natural gas into polyethylene, a common plastic.
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The facade, installed last year at Grenfell Tower, in panels known as cladding and sold as Reynobond PE, consisted of two sheets of aluminum that sandwich a combustible core of polyethylene.
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Braskem had planned to build a polyethylene plant in Peru that would be hooked up to the 1,000-kilometer pipeline, which will transport gas from the Amazon to the Pacific coast.
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Nestle rival Unilever said last week it had struck a partnership to pioneer a new technology which converts PET (polyethylene terephthalate) waste back into virgin-grade material for use in food packaging.
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"This agreement hedges us against the way we are doing on other priority markets," Konov said, referring to the polyethylene deal without giving details on how it will affect Sibur's production figures.
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GRAPHIC: Asia's petrochemical margins under pressure - here Meanwhile a plastic known as linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE), used in a host of products including food and non-food packaging, is similarly weak.
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Composed of carbon and hydrogen atoms linked together in long chains, polyethylene is a remarkably inert substance, meaning it doesn't react with much of anything, and therefore doesn't degrade in the environment.
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The conversion rate was low at first, but by the end of the experiment the worms fed polyethylene were converting 50% of it into gas and those fed polystyrene were converting 45%.
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Around 80 million tons of polyethylene is produced each year around the world, and it takes an inordinate amount of time—upwards of a hundred years—for this substance to degrade completely.
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The National Transportation Safety Board has been investigating the fire and bridge collapse, which is blamed on the ignition of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes and fiberglass conduits stored under the overpass.
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The high-density polyethylene used to make the plastic bricks didn't agree with the PCM; after a few freeze-thaw cycles, the PCM started to leak out through the screw-down top.
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The company manufactures three main types of Reynobond panel— one with a polyethylene (PE) core, one with a fire retardant core and another with a non-combustible core, according to its website.
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Start by taking a gander at this list of products on the market that currently include microbeads (basically anything with polyethylene and/or polypropylene in the ingredient list), and stop using them.
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Too much plastic Polyethylene is used to produce various types of packaging, from bags to bottles, but it doesn't degrade easily and can linger in the environment for even hundreds of years.
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More than four-fifths of the polymers found by Greenpeace were polyethylene, polystyrene and polypropylene, which are used to make products such as food packaging, milk and water bottles and carrier bags.
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Still, there is more than a million metric tons of new low-density U.S. polyethylene capacity coming online through next year, most of which is for export, particularly to China, he said.
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What comes out is base chemicals, like ethylene and polyethylene, the most widely used plastic, which is shipped in pellets that are then shaped into a range of consumer and industrial goods.
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The facility will use low-cost ethane from shale gas producers in the Marcellus and Utica basins in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia to produce 1.6 million tonnes of polyethylene per year.
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Producing bottles from polyethylene terephthalate, the plastic commonly used for food and drink packaging and better known as PET, emits less carbon dioxide than making glass bottles or aluminum cans, according to Quincey.
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"In the next two years, the operating rates (of polyethylene units) will be impacted as the capacity additions are faster than the demand addition," said U.S.-based Wood Mackenzie principal analyst Ashish Chitalia.
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For a little over two weeks, visitors will be able to walk from the town of Sulzano to two tiny islands using a temporary pier made from 200,000 cubes of high-density polyethylene.
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Image: WikimediaIn news that offers hope that human civilization won't end up drowning in soda bottles and plastic wrap, Chinese chemists have developed a remarkably efficient method for converting polyethylene into liquid fuel.
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The bars and drinks, which recently have been tested in a phase 20183 trial, contain the same purgative active ingredient, called polyethylene glycol (PEG) 3350, that is often used in colonoscopy prep products.
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Costs pegged to the greenback make up about half of Braskem's investment plan this year, with a new polyethylene plant in Mexico accounting for nearly three-quarters of dollar costs, or $329 million.
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Before the Atlanta fire, few would have identified these tubes -- including the plastic ones, otherwise known as high-density polyethylene, or HDPE -- as being dangerous, said Pete Rahn, secretary of Maryland's transportation department.
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"Commissioning works at the polypropylene production plant has been completed and it has already produced about 55,000 tonnes of polypropylene, while commissioning of high density polyethylene producing line is nearing completion," he said.
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As part of this expansion into the polyethylene market, Total and Saudi Aramco had said in April they would invest around $5 billion to build a petrochemical complex at their Jubail Satorp refinery.
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Exxon will add a plant producing 400,000 tons of polymers a year and an olefins plant that will produce 350,000 tons of feedstocks for polyethylene, waxes and lubricating oils at Baytown by 2022.
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Similarly, in Barney's six-part Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002), we're left asking whether the polyethylene sheep-bagpipe amalgam is the product, whereas the footage of its creation is the documentation, or the reverse?
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From lace loops to decorative decals to stiff outer soles and cushy innards, running shoes are an intricately manufactured stew of acronyms: TPU (thermoplastic polyurethane), EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate), and PET (polyethylene terephthalate).
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An average of 20 microplastic particles per 10 grams of stool were found, with polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) -- major components of plastic bottles and caps -- found in all of the participants.
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This year L'Occitane made the interior compartments of one of its two Advents ($64) from recycled PET — or polyethylene terephthalate; the sections of the more lavish version ($99) are made of recycled paper.
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The polyethylene version of Faye Toogood's plump Roly Poly chair, priced at $13 and already a best-seller on the 1stdibs website, is a bargain when you consider its bronze incarnation costs $45,000.
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Once it started, the fire in the state-owned storage lot under the highway apparently fed on high-density polyethylene pipes, ballooning into opaque walls of black smoke and eventually crumbling the road above.
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Unipetrol said the proposed dividend would allow it to finance ongoing investments, including a new polyethylene unit and repairs to a steam cracker that has been offline since a blast hit it last August.
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"From next year, demand for polyethylene would get even better as the impact of the ban would be felt," said a source from a Chinese firm that produces and markets petroleum and petrochemical products.
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The next line at Mont Belvieu will match that addition and bring total production at the plant to 2.5 million tons per year, making it one of the biggest polyethylene plants in the world.
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Established in 1995, EQUATE operates an integrated manufacturing facility producing more than 5 million tonnes annually of petrochemical products, including polyethylene and ethylene, that are marketed throughout the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Europe.
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Who would have guessed that making a plastic bag involves forcing hot air through polyethylene goop, producing a humongous plastic balloon several hundreds of feet long that is then flattened, heat-stamped and cut?
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Analysts forecast production in the former Soviet Union of basic polymers, such as polyethylene and polypropylene, will more than double to 9.6 million tonnes per year by 2024, from 4 million tonnes in 2017.
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The complex, located in Korla city in southern Xinjiang, will have key production units such as a 600,000 tonnes-per-year ethylene facility and a 300,000 tpy high-density polyethylene facility, the newspaper said.
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They say the enzyme, Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6, is able to "eat" polyethylene terephthalate, PET, which was patented as a plastic in the 1940s and is used in millions of tons of plastic bottles.
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In December, Ohio issued air-emissions and water-discharge permits to PTT Global Chemical of Thailand and its partner, South Korea's Daelim Industrial, for a proposed polyethylene plant in Shadyside, about 80 miles downriver.
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According to a study published in Science in March, the microbe Ideonella sakaiensis can convert polyethylene terephthalate — most commonly used in plastic water bottles because it is lightweight but durable — into an energy source.
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The whole basement is meant to work as a kind of reverse bathtub, keeping groundwater out with a membrane made of high-density polyethylene that runs under the concrete floors and outside the walls.
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The regulatory filing also showed that Exxon's hard-hit chemical business could slash its profit in the fourth quarter, compared with the third, due to weak margins resulting from a global glut of polyethylene.
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Evian is teaming up with Loop Industries, which has developed a new technology to transform all types of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) plastic waste into the high-quality plastic Evian requires, to redesign its packaging.
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Chemical companies have been struggling with uncertainty caused by trade conflicts, weak global demand as well as lower prices for ethylene and polyethylene due to higher supply from the United States, China, Korea and Thailand.
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The two ends of the spinal cord would then be fused together with a chemical called polyethylene glycol, or PEG, which has been shown to promote regrowth of cells that make up the spinal cord.
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Chemical companies have been struggling with uncertainty caused by trade conflicts, weak global demand as well as lower prices for ethylene and polyethylene due to higher supply from the United States, China, Korea, and Thailand.
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In a series of papers published in Surgical Neurology International, neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero describes recent experiments using a chemical called polyethylene glycol, or PEG, which his team is using to reconnect severely damaged spinal cords.
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The fact that Burmeister is even using this material – a "nonwoven composite of Dyneema brand ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE)" – is odd in an industry that hasn't changed much in the past 100 years.
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The Federation, which represents national associations and several major companies, said the new industry goal was to collect 90 percent of all PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles by 2025, as an average across the European Union.
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"Today in effect, Nornickel has completed a major project which will draw a line under all the historical pollution incidents," Dyachenko said, adding the new pipeline had a polyethylene lining which would prevent all leaks.
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One of the most prominent materials in the British designer Craig Green's fall 2019 collection, which he showed this week in London, was a thin glossy plastic akin to the polyethylene of a trash bag.
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While perusing the open access Soap Bubble Wiki, he noticed that most of the favored recipes for bubble solution included a polymer—usually natural guar (a common thickening food additive) or a medical lubricant (polyethylene glycol).
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An oversupply of ethylene and polyethylene, used in making plastics, and the impact of U.S.-China trade tensions on demand for chemicals had forced Dow to cut its third-quarter revenue forecast and full-year spending.
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Based on data from the Korea Petrochemical Industry Association (KPIA), the average spread between high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and naphtha feedstock costs in the second quarter was $421.34 a ton - the lowest quarterly average since 20203.
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The 50/50 joint venture, called Gulf Coast Growth Ventures, will have the ability to produce 1.8 million metric tons a year, and will house a monoethylene glycol unit and two polyethylene units, the companies said.
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The baggies are made of low-density polyethylene, which is technically recyclable but often omitted from curbside pickup because of its low value (Blue Apron tells customers how to find a recycling center on its website).
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Of the 7.3 million tonnes, polyethylene made up about 2.53 million tonnes in 2016, and this is expected to fall to between 1.7 million and 1.8 million tonnes this year, data from IHS Markit Chemical showed.
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"The expansion of our Mont Belvieu facility further enhances our ability to meet growing global demand for high-performance polyethylene products around the world," Neil Chapman, president of Exxon Mobil Chemical Co., said in a statement.
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This month, the company showed off the first brick-based fruits of those efforts: About 25 different Lego shapes, many of them plants, will now be made from sugarcane-based polyethylene rather than oil-based plastic.
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Last December, its South Korean joint venture with Hanwha Group had also said it would invest $331 million in the group's refining and petrochemicals platform to increase polyethylene output by 400,000 tonnes per year by 2019.
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What's more, polyethylene glycol is toxic to humans, according to Mark Hardy, an expert on immunosuppresion and a pioneering transplant surgeon at Columbia University, who co-authored the paper examining the scientific grounding of head transplantation.
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The company said it had pushed out the dates for beneficial operation of its low density polyethylene unit from mid October to November, its ziegler and ethoxylates units to January and the guerbet unit to March.
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China in 2018 placed an additional 25% tariff on U.S. polyethylene imports, a move that helped send North American margins to the lowest levels since 2011, said Joel Morales, a polymers analyst at consultancy IHS Markit.
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A California Department of Public Health test found that 75 percent of the tested samples contained undisclosed additives, including cutting agents such as vitamin E, vitamin E acetate, propylene glycol, polyethylene glycol and medium chain triglycerides.
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As the Denver Post reported, the Marijuana Enforcement Division in Colorado is very close to restricting certain additives in cannabis vaping products, including polyethylene glycol (PEG), vitamin E acetate, and medium chain triglycerides or MCT oil.
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The cladding on the building — sheets of aluminum composite material, encasing a flammable polyethylene insulation — has been associated with high-rise fires in other countries and its use is restricted in the United States and elsewhere.
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A hydrocarbon that comes from natural gas, ethane is used to make ethylene, which in turn is used to make the common plastic polyethylene at the Braskem-Idesa plant near the Gulf coast port of Coatzacoalcos.
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Does Robinson want us to think about the material contents of a plastic cup, nylon umbrella or tent, a rubber tire or polyethylene jug — things that cannot be turned to compost and are not necessarily recycled?
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Grenfell was clad in panels made of layers of an aluminum composite over a core of polyethylene, a type of plastic, which melted, caught fire and sent flaming drops and rivulets down the sides of the building.
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Compounding the woes for chemical companies reeling under weak global demand and trade conflicts is an oversupply of ethylene and polyethylene used in making plastics from the United States, China, Korea and Thailand that has hurt prices.
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"Our understanding is that the ignition of the polyethylene within the cladding panel produces a flaming reaction more quickly than dropping a match into a barrel of petrol," Stephanie Barwise, another lawyer representing survivors, told the inquiry.
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Qatar's largest petrochemical maker, Industries Qatar , rose 2434 percent after news that one of its units, QAPCO, had signed an agreement with state-owned Qatar Petroleum to supply the low-density polyethylene producer with additional ethane gas.
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The performance was staged in conjunction with Reusable Universes: Shih Chieh Huang, a single-room exhibition for which the artist has assembled marine cyborgs from Tupperware, LED automotive "angel eye" headlights, polyethylene terephthalate bottles, and other materials.
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They used a pair of robotic arms that extrude concrete mixed with polyethylene fibres to print precast sections which were then assembled into a 33-metre footbridge that spans a pond in an industrial park in Shanghai.
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Although the monkey's spinal cord was not re-fused, the team says it may be possible if the spinal cord is cut cleanly in a bath of polyethylene glycol (PEG), a chemical that preserves nerve cell membranes.
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Unlike the first-generation IHPS, the new combat helmets feature a pressed and molded polyethylene material that has yielded significant weight reduction, Douglas Tamilio, director of the Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC), explained.
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PKN Orlen's voluntary buyout offer came after Unipetrol shares had soared to record highs, lifted by strong margins, dividend hopes and prospects of rising profit once the company brings a new polyethylene unit online early next year.
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The walkway is assembled from 220,000 high-density polyethylene cubes that form its 16-meter-wide (53 feet) spine, covered this week with a waterproof and stain-resistant fabric made by a German company for the project.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French oil and gas major Total has made a final investment decision to expand its Texas Bayport Polymers joint venture to double polyethylene production capacity to around 1.1 million tonnes a year, the company said.
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The family-owned maker of colorful plastic bricks said botanical pieces such as leaves and trees would now be made from polyethylene, a type of plastic derived from sugar cane, to replace materials sourced from fossil fuels.
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The National University of Singapore team said it had found a way to convert bottles made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET) into aerogels that have many potential uses - from insulation and fire safety to cleaning up oil spills.
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Output rose last summer at the depth of the U.S.-China trade dispute, and industry margins for a key polyethylene fell 30% compared with levels between 2016 and 2018, said James Wilson, analyst at pricing provider ICIS.
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Qatar's largest petrochemical maker, Industries Qatar , rose 0.7 percent after news that one of its units, QAPCO, had signed an agreement with state-owned Qatar Petroleum to supply the low-density polyethylene producer with additional ethane gas.
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The bottle is made from Military Grade High Density Polyethylene (HDPE), meaning that as well as Water Boarding, it can also be used to Dr. Pepper Board, Clorox Board or even Urine Board potential terrorists or annoying neighbors.
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In addition to being able to break down PETs, the researchers confirmed that the mutated enzyme was capable of digesting polyethylene furandicarboxylate (PEF), a bio-based substitute for PET plastics that could eventually replace some glass beer bottles.
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"The main benchmark that we compare it to is PET, or polyethylene terephthalate, one of the most common petroleum-based materials in the transparent packaging you see in vending machines and soft drink bottles," Meredith told Science Daily .
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An oversupply of ethylene and polyethylene as well as the impact of U.S.-China trade tensions on demand for chemicals had forced Dow to forecast lower-than-expected third-quarter revenue and cut full-year spending in July.
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So, we enter with renewables, then out of that for example, there is a plastic being produced -polyethylene polypropylene - and then the next step is through a new technology that we are still developing so-called chemical recycling.
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The agreement worth billions of dollars with the southern Guangdong provincial government includes a 1.2 million-tonne-per-year (tpy) ethylene plant, two polyethylene production lines and two polypropylene lines in the coastal city of Huizhou, it said.
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Other apartment blocks, like Grenfell, have been prettified with what we now know to be combustible polyethylene — if a council cannot prize poor people from its borough, then it can at least conceal them behind inoffensive pastel shades.
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The plant, which is being built on the site of a former zinc factory about 30 miles (48 km) north of Pittsburgh, will turn ethane from natural gas into at least 1.6 million tonnes of polyethylene per year.
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Demand for cladding surged with rising fuel costs and concerns about global warming, and over time, producers began selling it in a thin "sandwich" design: Two sheets of aluminum around a core made of flammable plastics like polyethylene.
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The first testicular prosthesis—made from a metal alloy called Vitallium—had been implanted in during World War II and in the two decades that followed, a number of other materials were used including lucite, Plexiglass and polyethylene.
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The team additionally reported that Korean researchers had performed further work in mice in an attempt to restore motor function after the spine is sliced through and then reconnected using polyethylene glycol, or PEG, as a kind of glue.
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You can stick plastic in a furnace and burn it at high temperatures, but that process is energy intensive, polluting, and results in a slew of nasty byproducts that are often just as hard to degrade as polyethylene itself.
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While it would be nice to credit the curators with a fresh insight, the Museum of Modern Art had already validated Tupperware's streamlined, injection-molded polyethylene contours as good design in a show of 20th century design in 1956.
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The Ethylene XXI project, a joint venture with Mexico's Idesa, will start producing polyethylene from natural gas-based ethane in the first quarter of 2016, Braskem said, culminating the biggest private investment ever by a Brazilian company in Mexico.
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Those larger grants have been awarded to two parties so far: Ron Frezieres, director of the California Family Health Council, who has been developing a polyethylene condom, and Lakshminarayanan Ragupathy, a researcher at the Indian company HLL Lifecare Ltd.
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Several months of subsequent testing culminated in the production of a flexible translucent sheet that forms at temperatures below 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit) and which James Dyson concluded was stronger than its plastic alternative, low-density Polyethylene.
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Update 06/15/2017 8:40 AM - The BBC now reports that that the aluminum cladding was filled with a flammable polyethylene core, the same material found in high-rise fires in France, the United Arab Emirates, and Australia.
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Tornatore said about 13 miles of safety rails, more than 21,000 square yards of wire netting and 1,420 protection tires would be installed, along with about 3,603 feet of the Tecpro polyethylene barriers that absorb energy during an impact.
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In 2016, HP announced it would use plastic collected in Haiti to make ink cartridges, and since then it has diverted more than 35 million polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles — the kind often used for water and sodas — into its products.
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In Transit CHRISTO ACROSS THE WATER IN ITALY The installation artist Christo will unveil his latest project, a series of buoyant polyethylene cubes laid across Italy's Lake Iseo that will create a nearly two-mile-long walking path, in June.
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Okay, so "virtually indestructible" doesn't mean totally indestructible, but this Grimace-like toy is made of "hard, tear-proof polyethylene," and that unusual shape means a lot of wobbly movement to keep your pup on their toes chasing it around.
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Chief Executive Carlos Fadigas said he expects that spread to remain healthy this year, with a minor reduction in 2016 followed by a more challenging outlook in 2017, when more polyethylene plants fed by U.S. shale gas come onto the market.
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Today, many are made of high-quality combinations of PVC, polyethylene, and sometimes vinyl, that you have to get right up against and take a big whiff of before you realize they're not from a Christmas tree farm outside of town.
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"It's a concern without a doubt because the U.S. has a good cost position, they're adding capacity and the Chinese market is very short of polyethylene as a whole, so they need the imports to meet their demand growth," Lidback said.
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Between the semi-arid landscape, fleshy-colored polyethylene shores, an army of attentive staff, and brightly colored humans toting ungainly foam boards, NLand feels like a theme park dedicated to bringing about a world where humans terraform for pleasure's sake.
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The price of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plastic film had fallen slightly following the halt of Chinese imports, but the price of other recycled plastics, such as PET for water bottles, had increased due to higher oil prices, Boursier said.
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In an e-mailed statement, SABIC said the project with Exxon Mobil Chemical which would feed a monoethylene glycol unit and two polyethylene units reflects SABIC's strategy to advance the company's growth in key markets such as the United States.
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In a brochure aimed at customers in other European countries, the company cautions that the polyethylene Reynobond should not be used in buildings taller than 10 meters, or about 33 feet, consistent with regulations in the United States and elsewhere.
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On April 18, the bridge looked almost ready to open, except for the oddly dissonant color of the five outermost cables, which are coated in a high-density polyethylene that looks orange, although it is officially described as burnt umber.
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"We greatly appreciate the Supervisors' due diligence and their careful consideration throughout the process ... and ... look forward to fulfilling our goal of constructing a world-class polyethylene manufacturing facility in Potter Township," Shell said in a statement emailed on Thursday.
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The new venture plans to build a 1 million ton per year ethane steam cracker in Port Arthur, Texas, and is also considering building a 625,000 tonnes per year polyethylene unit at Total's Bayport site, also in Texas, on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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Scans of the microplastics found in the study showed about 40% of them contained polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as well as polyamide and polycarbonate — all of which are mainly used for consumer products rather than in fishing lines and other sources of marine plastic.
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Writing today in Science Advances, Huang and his colleagues describe their method for degrading polyethylene at temperatures as low as 150 degrees Celsius, by adding an organometallic catalyst—a small, commercially available organic molecule doped with the metal iridium—to the reaction.
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And a third application of the technology is being explored in Japan which takes previously un-recyclable waste streams from consumer products and converts that into ethanol and polyethylene that can be used to make bio-plastics or bio-based nylon fabrics.
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Last year, 61 whales off the West Coast were reported caught up in polyethylene lines attached to crab traps, nearly twice as many as in 2014 and well above the five to 10 per year tallied during the two previous decades, Milstein said.
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Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron Corp are building mammoth chemical crackers to process polyethylene from natural gas, and logistics firms have created millions of new square feet of warehouse space as they plan to ship the output to the global plastics industry.
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After creating the sinuous S chair and licensing it to Cappellini in 220, his subsequent pieces, including the 23 polyethylene Jack, a stackable lamp that resembles a cartoon version of the classic metal toy, established Dixon as a juggernaut of industrial design.
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In fact, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, recycling rates in 2015 ranged from a high of 31 percent for PET (SPI code 1) to 10 percent for high-density polyethylene (SPI code 2) and a few percent at best for other groups.
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Qatar's plant will include an ethane cracker with an annual ethylene capacity of about 1.9 million tonnes, making it the Middle East's largest and one of the biggest in the world, said Kaabi, adding that the plant will increase Qatar's polyethylene output capacity by 82%.
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" As for using the gluelike substance, polyethylene glycol, to facilitate the growth of nerve endings, Dr. Shaked said, "Put it this way: It is like if the trans-Atlantic phone cable is cut by half, and someone wants to put it together using Krazy Glue.
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Provided the government gives the green light, renewable company Sundial Energy Ltd will insert polyethylene pipe, used in high-pressure plumbing, down the wellbore's steel casing to a depth of more than 1 kilometre, where temperatures are 70-80 degrees Fahrenheit (21-27 degrees Celsius).
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The company plans to start commercial operation of the olefins plant, or mixed feed cracker (MFC), in 2022, and the plant is expected to churn out 700,000 tonnes per year of ethylene and 500,000 tonnes per year of polyethylene, the refiner said in a statement.
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" As for using the gluelike substance, polyethylene glycol, to facilitate the growth of nerve endings, Dr. Shaked said, "Put it this way: It is like if the trans-Atlantic phone cable is cut by half, and someone wants to put it together using Krazy Glue.
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To see a graphic on Exxon's chemicals and refining profit, please click here - here In chemicals, Woods expanded the company's output of polyethylene, a business where it has 222% of global production capacity, to benefit from demand for plastic bags, food packaging and consumer goods.
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Your disposable coffee cup might seem like it can be recycled, but most single-use cups are lined with a fine film of polyethylene, which makes the cups liquid-proof but also difficult and expensive to reprocess (because the materials have to be separated).
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The company said it expects core earnings from the Lake Charles project to come in between $50 million and $100 million for the financial year 2020 following an explosion and a fire at the low-density polyethylene unit in Louisiana, United States on January 13.
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For three years, she worked at the now-defunct fabricator Carlson & Company in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley, which produced pieces for major contemporary artists including Charles Ray and Jeff Koons (she worked on his Technicolor polyethylene "Cat on a Clothesline" [1994-2001] sculptures).
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The 27.1477 billion yuan ($2.5 billion) complex in the city of Panjin, Liaoning province, will produce 800,000 tonnes per year (tpy) of polyethylene and 600,000 tpy of polypropylene, used to make products ranging from pipes and plastic containers to agricultural films, the sources said.
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Lego is also already using polyethylene made from sugar-cane husks in flexible pieces like dragon wings, palm trees and fishing rods, but these constitute only 1 percent to 2 percent of its output, and the material is too soft for the company's toy blocks.
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Reuters identified 210 blocks which, since 2006, had been cladded with aluminum panels with polyethylene cores - a form of cladding that failed the DCLG's test, and which the prime minister and three other ministers have said breaches safety regulations when used in tall buildings.
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The global output capacity for polyethylene, a key ingredient for plastics used in everything from piping to toys, is expected to exceed demand by 3 million tonnes by the end of 2020, compared to overcapacity of 545,000 tonnes in 2019, data from commodity consultancy Wood Mackenzie showed.
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Undertaken by teams at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the U.K.'s University of Portsmouth, the research could potentially lead to a "recycling solution" for plastic bottles made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which lingers in the environment for hundreds of years.
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Reicher, with Portman and Anella and another classmate, a photographer named Pete Lewitt, hiked down from the source, at Stony Pass, just east of Silverton, Colorado, and put in twenty-five miles later, below the first dam, in fibreglass kayaks, brittle precursors of today's polyethylene creek boats.
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All coverage is thus obliged to parrot the dimensions and specifications: 7,506 horizontally stacked, brightly colored barrels on a platform of interlocking high-density polyethylene (HDPE), 65.5 feet high, 190 feet long at its widest, weighing 600 tons, and covering about 20183% of the lake's surface area.
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The company said it expects core earnings contribution from the Lake Charles project to come in between $50 million and $100 million for the financial year 2020 following an explosion and a fire at the low-density polyethylene unit in Louisiana, United States on January 24.
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"Columbia Gas of Massachusetts' weak engineering management ... did not adequately plan, review, sequence, and oversee the construction project that led to the abandonment of a cast iron main without first relocating regulator sensing lines to the new polyethylene main," NTSB's Managing Director Sharon Bryson said last week.
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"Columbia Gas of Massachusetts' weak engineering management ... did not adequately plan, review, sequence, and oversee the construction project that led to the abandonment of a cast iron main without first relocating regulator sensing lines to the new polyethylene main," NTSB's Managing Director Sharon Bryson said Tuesday.
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But early speculation is that the cladding – which consists of an aluminium exterior with a flammable polyethylene core – may have contributed to the ferocity of the blaze, with the cavity behind the panels and the concrete exterior creating a chimney effect that helped spread the flames.
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Among the proposed phase-one investment with a total cost of 18 billion yuan ($2.54 billion) are the production of 800,000 tonnes per year (tpy) of polyethylene, 600,000 tpy polypropylene and 350,000 tpy styrene, Xinhua reported, without giving a timeline when the facilities are expected to be built.
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Scientists discovered that the wax worm, a caterpillar used for fishing bait that takes its name from its habit of feeding on beeswax, is able to break down the chemical bonds in polyethylene, a synthetic polymer and widely produced plastic used in packaging, bags and other everyday materials.
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North American plastic scrap has long been shipped to China but the world's most populous country has been overwhelmed by its own waste and environmental problem and banned not only polyethylene terephthalate (or PET) commonly used in water and soda plastic bottles, but 24 different types of solid waste.
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READ MORE: This What Happens When You Leave Bottled Water in the Sun "This next-generation PET will be as light in weight, transparent, recyclable and protective of the product as today's PET [polyethylene terephthalate], while being better for the planet," a Nestlé Waters of North America spokesperson told MUNCHIES.
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By the end of the year, under two percent of Lego bricks will use the new polyethylene, a haul that includes not just bushes and trees but also the brushes in the car washes and street sweepers in the Lego City line, and at least one set of dragon wings.
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"The ethane that is exported overseas is mainly used for ethylene production, which is converted to polyethylene to make many types of plastics and synthetic fibers, such as nylon, polyester and spandex, which again, are in products used by Americans every day," Energy Transfer Partners spokesperson Lisa Coleman told Motherboard.
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To make up for the loss of recycled plastic, petrochemical producers and exporters to China from the Middle East, South Korea, Thailand and Singapore are expected to receive more orders for products including polyethylene, a thermoplastic found in almost everything from grocery bags to bubble wraps, pipes, medical devices and even bulletproof vests.
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CreditCreditChris Maggio for The New York Times Each December, surrounded by wonderlands of white paper snowflakes, bright red winterberries, and forests of green conifers reclaiming their ancestral territory from inside the nation's living rooms and hotel lobbies, children and adults delight to see the true harbinger of the holidays: aluminum metalized polyethylene terephthalate.
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Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron Phillips Chemical Co, a joint venture of Chevron Corp and Phillips 2100, are building mammoth chemical crackers to process polyethylene from natural gas, and logistics firms have created millions of new square feet of warehouse space as they plan to ship the output to the global plastics industry.
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The single painting in this room is a knockout by Robert Williams (who also made art for Zap Comix), "Ernestine and the Venus of Polyethylene" (1968) depicting a nude woman standing below a towering red female statue, seen from below and balloon-like in form, appearing to be made of highly reflective stainless steel.
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"The NTSB determines that the probable cause ... was Columbia Gas of Massachusetts' weak engineering management that did not adequately plan, review, sequence, and oversee the construction project that led to the abandonment of a cast iron main without first relocating regulator sensing lines to the new polyethylene main," NTSB's Managing Director Sharon Bryson said Tuesday.
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An oversupplied market and uncertainties stemming from a prolonged U.S.-China trade war have hit prices for polyethylene, the main ingredient used in making most plastics "(2020 will see) not necessarily a snapback but improving demand as we go through the year just based on restocking to a normal demand pattern," Chief Financial Officer Howard Ungerleider told Reuters.
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"The NTSB determines that the probable cause ... was Columbia Gas of Massachusetts' weak engineering management that did not adequately plan, review, sequence, and oversee the construction project that led to the abandonment of a cast iron main without first relocating regulator sensing lines to the new polyethylene main," NTSB Managing Director Sharon Bryson said at the time.
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