Insights

Mike Boswell, Managing Director of leading polymer distributor, Plastribution, provides an insight on a year like no other.

To maximize polymer performance in final products by mixing polymers with different properties was the goal of RadiciGroup High Performance Polymers. The result is its new specialty range of [...]

With the advent of the 5G era, demand for higher product performance continues to increase, such as more flame retardant and heat resistant materials for communications applications. In response [...]

Light guides made from Plexiglas® lend a high-quality appearance to the new premium ATMs from Diebold Nixdorf. Whether in a pedestrian zone or in a shopping mall, advertisement boards are lit up [...]

Santoprene TPV grades from ExxonMobil come with all-weather resistance and long-lasting sealing performance for windows, door seals and gaskets, both in residential as in commercial buildings. [...]

When the recent pandemic hit and turned business-as-usual upside down, thermoplastics distributor, Plastribution, used the time to work on a long-held plan to ‘stretch’ its portfolio – adding a [...]

Total’s ambition for their polymers business is to be selling 30% recycled polymers by 2030, equating to 1 million tons per year in 2030. However, one of the big challenges facing recycling of [...]

When the polymer industry talks about finite resources it usually refers to oil and gas which are the key components in polymer production. However, there is one resource that the polymer [...]

In the current situation, medical, NHS support staff, teachers and other key workers are being told to bag up and immediately wash their clothing as soon as they return home. The demand for [...]

The plastic packaging tax, set to be implemented in April 2022, is aimed at increasing recycling levels by placing a tax on plastic packaging that contains below 30% recycled content. The tax is [...]

For more than four decades Plastribution’s vision, ‘to be the UK’s preferred supplier of plastic raw materials’, has been consistent. We've has been able to manage expectations by maintaining a [...]

On 16th October 2019 MD's Mike Boswell of Plastribution & Richard Cowling of Hellyar Plastics will run 10K at their 10th successive K-show since 1992, all to raise money for 'The Princes Trust'. [...]

Dr Rotem Shemesh, R&D and Customer Service Manager at Carmel Olefins, recently spent the day at the Plastribution offices providing technical training to our sales teams.  While she was here, [...]

There are numerous headlines in the newspapers at the moment around the misery the weak pound is causing for those holidaying abroad. The ‘hard Brexit’ rhetoric since Boris Johnson became Prime [...]

‘Sustainable polymers’, ‘green polymers’ - however you refer to them, producing materials and products with the intention of causing minimal impact to our environment is perhaps the most [...]