Sentence examples for feedstocks for plastics from inspiring English sources

The Saudis' natural gas-derived feedstocks for plastics are 75 cents per million Btu, one-sixth the price in the West.

Just up the Ohio from Ambridge, Shell is contemplating building a multi-billion-dollar "cracker" to turn the ethane that emerges with much of the gas from the Marcellus into ethylene, a feedstock for plastics.On the Gulf coast (another gas hub), Chevron Phillips, Dow Chemical, Formosa Plastics, Occidental Petroleum and Williams are all expanding existing chemical plants or building new ones.

Metabolic Explorer, for example, can turn glucose into acrylate, a feedstock for the plastics industry.

LPG is the major feedstock for making plastics and synthetic fibres and is the source of butane and propane fuel.

Nurdles the plastic pellets used as a feedstock for producing plastic goods can spill from ships or land-based sources, and "microbeads" used as scrubbing agents in personal care products such as skin cleansers, toothpastes, and shampoos, can escape water-treatment facilities and pass into watersheds with treated water.

Also, the application of eco-design strategies has not been in the focus for the bio-based products due to the prevailing misconceptions of renewable materials (as feedstock for bio-based plastics) considered in itself as an 'eco-design strategy'.

Will we replace oil with wheat or corn as a feedstock for producing natural plastic?

Cyanobacteria fix CO2 more efficiently than plants, and can be engineered to produce carbon feedstocks useful for making plastics, solvents, and medicines.

The company also produces chemical feedstocks for many industries.

Livestock farmers are substituting cheaper feedstocks for wheat.

Feedstocks for biofuels, for example, take hundreds of gallons of water per gallon of fuel to produce.