Glossary of Terms

A
Actual
Additive
Alloy
Amorphous
Annealing
Antifogging Agents
Antioxidant
Antistatic Agents
Application
Ask
ASTM

B
Back Pressure
Barrel
Bear
Bear market
Bearish
Bid
Black Specks
Bloom
Blow Molding
Blushing
Breakaway gap
Bulk Density
Bull
Bull market
Bullish
Buyer

C
Cash commodity
Cash price
Cash settlement
CFTC
Chartist
Clearinghouse
Coextrusion
Color Concentrate
Colorants
Commitment
Commodity
Compound
Compounding
Compression Molding
Contract
Copolymer
CoPP
Core
Corrosion Resistance
Crate Grade
Cross-linking
Crystal
Crystallinity
Custom Molder

D
Delivery
Demand
Density
Derivative
Double top, bottom
Downtrend
Draft
Drying

E
Ejection Pin
Elastomer
Electronic trading
Engineering Plastics
Exchange
Extruder
Extrusion

F
FAS
FDA
Filler
Film
Flame Retardant
Flame Retardants
Flash
Forming
Forward contract
Fundamentalist
Futures
Futures contract

G
Gate
Good-til-canceled (GTC)
GPPS

H
HDPE
Head and shoulders
Hedge
Hedger
HIC
HIPS
Homopolymer
HoPP

I
Impact Resistance
Impact Strength
Injection Molding
ISO
Izod Impact Strength

K
Knockout Pin

L
LDPE
Liner Grade
LLDPE
Low Temperature Flexibility
Lubricant Bloom

M
Material Safety Data Sheets
Melt Index
Melt Strength
Minimum Specifications
Modified Resins
Modulus in Flexure
Mold (n)
Mold Release
Molding Cycle
Molecule
Monomer
Moving average chart
Moving averages

N
Nozzle

O
Offer
Open order
Order
OSHA
Overbought
Oversold

P
Pail Grade
Pellets
Performance bond
Plastic
Plasticize
Plate-Out
Polyblend
Polybuthene Terephthalate
Polycarbonate Resin
Polymer
Polymer Structure
Polymerization
Polyphenylene Oxide
Polypropylene (PP)
Polystyrene (PS)
Price
Price order
Purging

R
Railcar
Rally
Regrind
Resin
Retracement
Runner

S
Screw
Seller
Selling climax
Shear Strength
Sideways trend
SPE
Specific Gravity
Speculator
SPI
Spot Market
Spot Price
Sprue
Stabilizer
Stiffness
Stress-crack
Structural Foam
Supply
Symmetrical triangles

T
Technical analysis
Tensile Strength
Thermoforming
Thermoplastic Elastomers
Thermoplastics
Thermosets
Tool
Trader
Trend
Truckload

U
Up trend

V
Vacuum Forming
Virgin Material
Viscoelasticity
Viscosity
Volatility

W
Warpage
Water Absorption
Weathering

Y
Yellowness Index