POLYVANTIS says its PLEXIGLAS and EUROPLEX films provide optical precision, chemical resistance, and biocompatibility for ...

The high-end plastic, developed by a General Electric Co. scientist, Daniel Fox, in 1953, has been used in the space helmets worn on the moon by Astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, in stock-car ...

GE Plastics sees ways for its high-performance resins to replace metal on a variety of medical devices. A movement to plastics from metal is gaining traction, said Clare Frissora, health-care market ...

Sabic Innovative Plastics has introduced two new grades of its Lexan-brand polycarbonate sheet. Lexan ULG1003 112OQ offers superior optical quality for a range of automotive and transportation ...

Lexan has been long recognized as an excellent way to remove weight from quarter-mile warriors and extreme street sleepers. The hurdles limiting its mainstream utilization have been cost and fit.

When the old, white high-density polyethylene (HDPE) Nalgene bottles gave way to the smoky-gray Lexan (polycarbonate) bottles in the early 1990s, I thought it was a godsend. Unlike the original HDPE, ...