Polystyrene is made from styrene building blocks and is the most widely used plastic in terms of volume, for example in packaging. Unlike PET, which can now be produced and recycled using ...

Maverick Boat Group and Pursuit Boats are the Treasure Coast's largest air polluters by quantity. Economic incentives helped build their facilities.

Among the chemicals used to manufacture polymer composites, few are as widely used as styrene. Produced from natural gas feedstocks, it is a primary ingredient in polystyrene (PS), acrylonitrile ...

IT'S NOT EVERY DAY in the chemical industry that a potential new process for making a commodity chemical comes along and is called a breakthrough. But that's what some chemists are saying about a ...

There is no evidence that the material styrene, often found in food contact materials, is genotoxic (has the ability to cause DNA or chromosomal damage). That is according to the European Food Safety ...

BASF is strengthening its styrene value chain at its Ludwigshafen site by expanding the production capacity of Neopor® by 50,000 metric tons per year. This increase is aimed at meeting the growing ...

Despite fierce opposition from the chemical industry, formaldehyde and styrene have been added to a government warning list of known and potentially carcinogenic compounds. Released on June 10—four ...