Although it has recently been shifting away from commodity plastics towards specialty niches, the division has missed its profit targets and hurt ge's margins.

尽管它从传统的日用品生产转向了面向细分市场，这项业务仍然没能达成利润目标以至损害了通用的整体利润率。

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But today plastics is a low-growth, commodity business.

但是如今，塑料业务已经是一个低增长的日用品业务。

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This class of biodegradable plastics is seen by many to be the answer to making fully biodegradable plastics with property profiles similar to those of commodity polymers such as polyethylene.

这种生物降解塑料类是被许多人是回答使财产概况类似商品，如聚乙烯聚合物的完全生物降解塑料。

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Haldia is already a licensee of Basell's technology in commodity plastics, and might fancy direct access to Basell's wide expertise in more upmarket stuff.

ECONOMIST: Plastics and petrochemicals

Dow Chemical, operating in the dull but brutal commodity-plastics market, now splits out and prices separately the add-on services that it once provided in a lump along with its products.

ECONOMIST: Pricing strategies

The Midland, Michigan-based company still gets 40% of its revenues from basic commodity chemicals and plastics.

FORBES: Chemical transformation