Expanded Polyethylene Product Mix

Until the mid-1990s, the polyethylene product space consisted of the manufacture of ethylene-based homopolymers and copolymers over a density range of about 0.910-0.965 g/cc with Melt Index values between about 0.05-100. 

The introduction of single-site catalyst technology has expanded the polyethylene product space to densities as low as about 0.86 g/cc with traditional comonomers such as 1-butene, 1-hexene and 1-octene. In addition, single-site catalysts have provided new ethylene-based copolymers with comonomers based on styrene and cyclic olefins such as norbomene. 

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