Ascend Performance Materials agrees to purchase engineered polymers and masterbatch businesses from Italy-based D'Ottavio Group.

Ampacet’s (Tarrytown, NY) Revive masterbatch additive permits post-consumer and -industrial plastic waste to be reprocessed back into the polyolefin recycling stream.

World’s first chemically-foamed, high-density polyethylene grade free of azodicarbonamide.

A daylong conference track devoted to advances in medical plastics will explore topics ranging from the proper formulation of materials that come in contact with pharmaceuticals and best practices in plastics processing to the effect of moisture on polycarbonate and other polymers.