Inflation, because costs for fuel, transportation and petroleum derivatives (plastics, glues and the like) would jump.
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However, once the project is expanded, the plastics will be converted into resin or small beads.
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It still evokes a sense of solid craftsmanship, despite the overall use of plastics.
The eldest child of a school principal, he started a plastics factory in 1950.
Every manufacturing-input cost rose, from electricity to petroleum (for plastics) to metals to wages.
Handing over the trading business to his family (but retaining the plastics factory), he plowed ahead.
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Without fracking, gas would cost a lot more, as would electricity, chemicals, plastics, everything.
Gruber brought PLA samples to more than a dozen plastics makers, including DuPont, Monsanto and BASF.
Dow Chemical is well positioned to gain in the plastics and specialty chemicals sectors.
The difference is that plastics with their accumulated contaminant load are directly ingestible by organisms.
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Nanocor , a subsidiary of Illinois-based AMCOL International , is the leading producer of nano-composite plastics.
The Midland, Michigan-based company still gets 40% of its revenues from basic commodity chemicals and plastics.
Two years ago George Hamilton, Dow's commercial director of engineering plastics, approached Elkhart, Ind.
Guernsey's recycling centre has started accepting 'rigid plastics', which includes buckets, children's toys and garden furniture.
And, also unlike conventional plastics, they are eminently digestible (at least to micro-organisms) after use.
Still, the angled edges highlight the system's design: brushed metal, glossy plastics and clean lines.
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And then there's glass and hard and soft plastics, and paper, and card and tin foil.
New car have this sort of semi sticky coating on the plastics under the hood.
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It might entail getting governments to expand recycling programs and accommodate bio-plastics in the marketplace.
Plastics-related shares have been hit in the past year by falling prices and weak demand.
Both metals and plastics are traded in bulk form, before they are turned into finished products.
Among the industries affected: fertilizer, pharmaceuticals, plastics, food processing, electronics, cosmetics, textiles and mining.
Its customers include chemical processors, plastics fabricators, construction contractors, municipalities and supply warehouses.
The process turns digital models on computer screens into three-dimensional solid objects using plastics and other materials.
Other sketchy stuff in the bags ranges from plastics to Teflon, not to mention artificial butter substitutes.
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The world's largest maker of glass bottles, Owens-Illinois, branched into plastics in the mid-1990s, fueling top-line growth.
Material choices run the gamut between the cameras with soft touch plastics, plastic chrome accents and metals.
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The university in nearby Bologna, for example, is helping it to develop special steels, composites and plastics.
By the early 1940s, though, the easy availability and low cost of petroleum rendered veggie plastics unnecessary.
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