Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (Tokyo) has acquired the PVC compounding business of Comtrex, LLC (Warren, MI). This is the second such move made by the company following its offer to purchase the ...

Mexican materials firm Mexichem SAB de CV has acquired PVC compounder Sylvin Technologies of Denver, Pa., in a $39 million deal. Sylvin was founded in 1978 and has annual sales of $29 million, making ...

North American PVC resin prices have moved up an average of 1 cent per pound since July 1, in part because of weather-related production outages. A major PVC resin plant operated by Shintech Inc. in ...

A laboratory mixer is the best tool for assessing the PVC compositions' fusion behavior, compound stability, and processing behavior. It is extremely sensitive to changes in the compound formulation ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westlake Global Compounds, a leading provider of specialty plastics compounds and a Westlake company, and Resinex, a leader in plastic distribution in Europe, today announced ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Westlake Chemical Corporation (NYSE: WLK) announced today that it has issued an exclusive, binding offer to acquire NAKAN, a global compounding solutions business, from Los ...