abstract:Commodity plastics are plastics that are used in high volume and wide range of applications, such as film for packaging, photographic and magnetic tape, clothing, beverage and trash containers and a variety of household products where mechanical properties and service environments are not critical. Such plastics exhibit relatively low mechanical properties and are of low cost.
Haldia is already a licensee of Basell's technology in commodityplastics, and might fancy direct access to Basell's wide expertise in more upmarket stuff.
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.