SI Group Raises Prices Across Full Product Portfolio Effective October 2026

SI Group, a performance additives, process solutions and chemical intermediates producer, has announced a price increase across its entire product portfolio. The increase takes effect October 1, 2026, or as…

DuPont Launches Free Digital Tool for Sugar Chromatography Resin Screening

DuPont has launched the DuPont Sugar Separation Advisor, an interactive digital tool that helps sugar and sweetener producers screen candidate DuPont AmberLite chromatography resins. Users select a target sugar, add…

Nynas promotes naphthenic base oils as flexible complement to Group II

Nynas says naphthenic base oils can complement Group II, Group III and synthetic base stocks in lubricant formulations, letting formulators reduce the amount of Group II or PAO required while…

Avient Launches Nymax FR REC Recycled Flame-Retardant Polyamide Grades

Avient Corporation launched Nymax FR REC, a line of non-halogenated flame-retardant recycled polyamide grades for electrical and electronics applications, incorporating 42% to 77% post-industrial recycled content. The PA6 and PA66…

Avient Launches Non-Halogenated Flame Retardant Polymers for Electrical and Appliance Markets

Avient Corporation launched Maxxam NHFR Polyolefin Formulations and Nymax FR REC Flame Retardant Recycled Nylon Formulations, non-halogenated flame-retardant polymers for electrical, electronics and appliance applications. The Nymax FR REC grades…

Sumitomo Chemical and Kyushu University Demonstrate KNN Optical Modulator Wafers

Sumitomo Chemical and Kyushu University jointly verified potassium sodium niobate (KNN) as a core optical modulator material for co-packaged optics. Sumitomo produced the KNN thin-film wafers, and the university designed,…

Braskem develops hearing protector packaging with 50% recycled resin content

Braskem, working with 3M and MagSac Embalagens, has developed flexible packaging for 3M’s 1100 and 1110 hearing protectors using 50% post-consumer recycled resin from its Wenew portfolio. The solution cuts…