The new Independent Pipe Products Inc. plant in Abbeville, S.C. — still being renovated and expanded — is a microcosm of the ever-evolving plastics industry, and a testament to innovative ...

Polyethylene is a whitish, semi-crystalline, and effectively opaque engineering thermoplastic which, chemically, is a very high molecular weight (3-6 million) HDPE. As a result, its melt viscosity is ...