We were worried because the cost of cement and plastics went up because of the rebuilding down in the Gulf Coast.
Quotes about plastics (15 Quotes)
What investor wants to buy a company that sells plastics to GM when plastics are going through the roof while the prices GM pays go down
Skin cancer rates will go up. Sunburns will occur at a faster rate, degradation of plastics and so forth, because of enhanced ultraviolet radiation from a lowering of ozone.
Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment.
By bringing together our chemicals and fibers segments into one group, we'll benefit from the synergies among our performance chemicals and intermediates fibers and coatings, adhesives, specialty polymers and inks segments. And combining the strengths of our polyesters segments into one group, which will include our polymers and specialty plastics segments, will enable us to take advantage of our integrated polyester strategy.
One reason for this is succinate's broad utility - it can be used to make everything from noncorrosive airport de-icers and nontoxic solvents to plastics, drugs and food additives.
Microsoft has allowed itself to be used by environmental activist groups that have failed to convince regulatory authorities that PVC plastics pose any danger to human health. We are not aware of any evidence whatsoever that Microsoft's use of PVC in packaging has harmed anyone.
I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event.
I can't say that only the citizens litter. I must say that I have also been wrong in doing this. We need to ban plastics and be a little careful with garbage.
Meyers notes that GM also is buffeted by macroeconomic winds that are damaging the company's bottom line and over which it has no control. Prices for steel, oil and plastics all have risen in recent years. GM also is burdened with legacy costs over which it has little control if it keeps its current promises to employees. Health care is the one you hear most about -- and it's big, ... But pension costs are enormous too.
When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?
Water, plastics, airbeds, sleeping bags, flashlights, batteries we just can't keep them in, ... We're not even close to matching demand.
We have the opportunity to produce feedstock to make fabrics like polyesters, plastics for films that wrap our foods, or plastics for things like milk bottles, car parts, all of that. The outcomes are the deliverables.
Many construction materials are likely to be pricier and scarcer because the storms knocked out so much supply, even if demand does not pick up, ... The loss of substantial oil and natural gas production will affect supplies and prices for diesel fuel, asphalt, roofing materials, insulation, PVC pipe, coatings and assorted construction plastics.
In our talks with some of these plastics companies, China is the buzzword.