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Article: Blow molding expands its range. despite high resin prices, blow molders inflate their optimism by focusing on innovation.
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- Plastics Engineering
- Article date:
- December 1, 2005
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Given some of the comments overheard at SPE's Annual Blow Molding Conference in Toledo, Ohio, in October, it seemed the attendees didn't expect to hear about many innovations in their field. Their concerns may have been more about how to deal with high resin prices and maturing technology and equipment.
After all, Hurricanes Rita and Katrina had just rattled sources of PET and polyethylene feedstock, pushing up prices even higher. At the start of the SPE Conference, consultants from Chemical Market Associates, Inc. (CMAI), described a "perfect storm" of damaged oil and natural gas refineries, coupled with high operating capacities for PET and PE production (and ...