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PE is a relatively low cost and versatile polymers used in a wide range of molded and extruded applications, including, for example, household & food containers, toys, packaging film and sheet, retail bags, trash bags, geomembranes, pipe, house wrap, pails, crates, caps, closures and bottles |
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Polyethylene represents the single largest category of the world’s major thermoplastics, representing over 30% of the global thermoplastic market. Like other polymers, PE also typically competes against other traditional non-polymer materials such as aluminum, steel, wood, cardboard, and glass. PE is used by plastic converters to make different kinds of end products utilizing different processes. Film and sheet, representing over 25% of global PE consumption, is by far the largest segment. Film includes multiple applications, ranging from food packaging to trash bags, stretch film, and shrink films. Blow molding and injection molding, combined, consume over 40%, with their individual shares almost equally divided. Blow molded bottles for milk, juice, motor oil, and laundry detergent are the largest single end use within blow molding. Various applications, which themselves differ greatly in size, use injection molding applications. Pipe and profiles is the other major demand segment and accounts for almost 15% of global PE consumption; end uses are concentrated in the construction industry. There are three broad categories of PE products; High Density Polyethylene (HDPE), Linear Low Density Polyethylene (LLDPE), and Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE). Indorama produces HDPE and LLDPE resins in various MFI grades ranging from 0.3 to 20 and from 1 to 30 respectively. |
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