Thermoplastic Stocks List

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Thermoplastic Stocks Recent News

Date Stock Title
Mar 18 CSL Carlisle Companies to Acquire MTL Holdings, a Leader in Edge Metal and Non-Insulated Architectural Wall Systems
Mar 18 CBT Cabot Corporation Launches New PROPEL® E8 Engineered Reinforcing Carbon Black for Tire Tread Applications
Mar 18 AVNT Avient Corp's Dividend Analysis
Mar 17 OC Are Investors Undervaluing Owens Corning (NYSE:OC) By 33%?
Mar 17 CBT Investing in Cabot (NYSE:CBT) five years ago would have delivered you a 146% gain
Mar 15 CSL Carlisle files for automatic mixed securities shelf
Mar 15 CE These Chemical Stocks May Not Be Glamorous But Are In Buy Zones
Mar 15 CSL General Electric's (GE) Turbines Power Invenergy Plant in Japan
Mar 15 OC Owens Corning (OC) Up 10.8% Since Last Earnings Report: Can It Continue?
Mar 15 AME Vishay (VSH) Bolsters Opto Offerings With IR Module Upgrades
Mar 15 CSL ITT Gains From End-Market Strength & Buyouts Amid Headwinds
Mar 15 EMN Eastman (EMN), Patagonia Unite to Tackle Global Textile Waste
Mar 14 WLK Westlake Corporation's (NYSE:WLK) Stock Has Shown A Decent Performance: Have Financials A Role To Play?
Mar 14 OII Oceaneering International (NYSE:OII) climbs 4.2% this week, taking three-year gains to 55%
Mar 14 EMN Eastman and Patagonia Join Forces To Tackle Global Textile Waste Crisis
Mar 14 EMN Discover Eastman’s Six Principles Driving Innovation
Mar 14 OII Oceaneering (OII) Partners With Feritech on Next-Gen Subsea Tech
Mar 13 OC Owens Corning (OC) Advances While Market Declines: Some Information for Investors
Mar 13 CE Should We Be Delighted With Celanese Corporation's (NYSE:CE) ROE Of 26%?
Mar 12 EMN Eastman and Food City Unveil New Plastics Recycling Bin in Kingsport
Thermoplastic

A thermoplastic, or thermosoftening plastic, is a plastic polymer material that becomes pliable or moldable at a certain elevated temperature and solidifies upon cooling.Most thermoplastics have a high molecular weight. The polymer chains associate by intermolecular forces, which weaken rapidly with increased temperature, yielding a viscous liquid. In this state, thermoplastics may be reshaped and are typically used to produce parts by various polymer processing techniques such as injection molding, compression molding, calendering, and extrusion. Thermoplastics differ from thermosetting polymers (or "thermosets"), which form irreversible chemical bonds during the curing process. Thermosets do not melt when heated, but typically decompose and do not reform upon cooling.

Above its glass transition temperature and below its melting point, the physical properties of a thermoplastic change drastically without an associated phase change. Some thermoplastics do not fully crystallize below the glass transition temperature, retaining some or all of their amorphous characteristics. Amorphous and semi-amorphous plastics are used when high optical clarity is necessary, as light is scattered strongly by crystallites larger than its wavelength. Amorphous and semi-amorphous plastics are less resistant to chemical attack and environmental stress cracking because they lack a crystalline structure.
Brittleness can be decreased with the addition of plasticizers, which increases the mobility of amorphous chain segments to effectively lower the glass transition temperature. Modification of the polymer through copolymerization or through the addition of non-reactive side chains to monomers before polymerization can also lower it. Before these techniques were employed, plastic automobile parts would often crack when exposed to cold temperatures. These are linear or slightly branched long chain molecules capable of repeatedly softening on heating and hardening on cooling.

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