Articles Tagged with ''packaging market''

Global demand for biobased and biodegradable plastics will rise 19% per year to 960,000 metric tons in 2017.

DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers announces a price increase in the range of $0.10/lb. to $0.15/lb. in North America on all grades of DuPont Surlyn, Elvaloy, Appeel, Fusabond, Bexloy, Entira, Conpol and Nucrel.

World demand for aluminum (primary and secondary/recycled) is projected to expand 5.8 percent per year through 2017 to 82.5 million metric tons. Of the 20 million additional metric tons of demand in 2017, nearly 11.5 million metric tons will be accounted for by China.