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Not All Plastics Are Born Equal

 DSM’s Dyneema replaces steel in offshore ropes Source of picture: offshore-technology.com   By John Richardson THE polyethylene (PE) shopping bags that get thrown away in their millions every day are some considerable distance down the value chain from DSM’s Dyneema ultra-high molecular weight PE (UHMWPE for short). Applications for Dyneema® include stopping bullets (it is […]

When Does Consolidation Become A Strategic Problem?

All our yesterdays… the ICI Runcorn site in its heyday Source of picture: Chesterchronicle.co.uk     By John Richardson Yesterday’s blog post on Petronas illustrates once again how the state-owned giants, albeit in this case one that is about to undergo a partial IPO, are increasingly dominating the global petrochemicals industry. The history of the […]

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