If styrene can be used without exposure to the workplace environment, then fabricators may continue to enjoy its benefits. Emissions have been the strategic focus at BYK USA (Wallingford, Conn.), ...

It’s estimated that 90 percent of composite material manufacturers use styrene in their products and there are about 3,000 US composite material companies. Marcy Ofner, ...

LyondellBasell Industries (NYSE:LYB) is one of the best basic materials stocks to invest in. In the earlier days of July, ...

Doctoral students have described a new selective biocatalyst in an interdisciplinary and inter-university collaboration. The ...

Boat manufacturer Malibu (Loudon, TN, US) uses Ashland’s (Columbus, OH, US) reduced- styrene Aropol L 67214 resin to mold a variety parts, including these gel-coated storage covers. The resin meets ...

A new report from the National Research Council has upheld the listing of styrene as “reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen” in the National Toxicology Program’s 12th Report on Carcinogens ...

Styrene is a building block used to make the ubiquitous compound polystyrene, which is found in food containers, toys, automobiles, carpet backings, house paints, ink cartridges, ...

In 2011, the styrene, a high volume plastics chemical and animal carcinogen, was the focal point in a 'poison scandal' in the Danish media. Now a registry study of more than 72,000 employees from ...