Hunt for resin continues, even as supplies improve
Chase Plastic Services Inc.
North American resin availability is improving in the wake of recent outages, but many companies throughout the supply chain still can t get all the material they need.
In the wake of Winter Storm Uri, which hit Texas and the Gulf Coast in mid-February, many material suppliers put customers on force majeure sales limits or other types of allocation.
LyondellBasell Industries of Houston operates multiples sites making polyethylene, polypropylene and related resins and compounds in Texas. In an email to
Plastics News, spokeswoman Chevalier Gray said that nearly all of our assets, except for Corpus Christi, are back to normal operations.
2021 Rising Stars: Daniel Timmer
Manufacturing Engineer, Chroma Color Corp.
Two years into his studies at Northern Illinois University, Daniel Timmer began his internship at McHenry, Ill.-based color concentrates maker Chroma Color Corp. A year later, he participated in an independent study course to research recycling e-waste. He started working full time at Chroma in December 2017, the same time he graduated from NIU with his bachelor s degree in manufacturing engineering. I enrolled in plastics courses at NIU because I knew it would be a good industry to work in plastics make up such a huge part of so many products in the world today, the manufacturing engineer said. The plastics industry has a bright future with room for growth, so I knew it would make an excellent career path for me.
2021 Rising Stars: Mary Brown
Analytical Chemist, Chroma Color Corp.
Mary Brown was raised in Albemarle, N.C., and graduated from Pfeiffer University in 2016 with a degree in biological sciences and a minor in mathematics. She graduated with her master s degree in chemistry from the University of North Carolina in July 2020. In August, she was accepted into the graduate program at North Carolina State University, where she is working toward her master s degree in statistics.
Brown s first plastics job was working in the analytical lab with specialty color and additive concentrate supplier Chroma Color Corp. in Salisbury, N.C. I didn t expect to come out of college and start working in the plastics industry, but once I joined Chroma, I fell in love with the industry, she said. I saw some great opportunities here and I get to work with what I love everyday: chemistry!
Mary Brown, 26
Analytical Chemist, Chroma Color Corp.
Mary Brown was raised in Albemarle, N.C., and graduated from Pfeiffer University in 2016 with a degree in biological sciences and a minor in mathematics. She graduated with her master's degree in chemistry from the University of North…