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Sustainability / Natural Solutions


Due to the growing awareness for a more circular economy, the industry is now on a constant lookout for renewable feedstocks and recycling solutions.

Biobased additives and polymers are being increasingly used now but there is still scope for improvement for their use in demanding applications and there is a need to find new solutions for end-of-life challenges.

Recycling of plastics is the need of the hour and researchers and companies alike are investing their time for new ways of recycling, like using NIR-sortable additives and masterbatches or using more recycled content in the polymers.

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Jul 31, 2023 | Industry News

Researchers Use Computational Framework for Advancing Chemical Recycling of Plastics

New research from the lab of Giannis Mpoumpakis, associate professor of chemical and petroleum engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, focuses on optimizing a promising technology called...

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Jul 28, 2023 | Industry News

Scientists Discover New Recycling Method to Convert Colored Plastics into Monomers

Scientists at Cardiff University have developed a new method of recycling-colored plastics offering possible solutions to huge environmental challenges. The process, which breaks down colored...

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Jul 27, 2023 | Industry News

LG Chem Receives TUV Rheinland Certificate for Product Carbon Footprint Method

LG Chem has become the first in Korea to receive certification for its Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) calculation method from the global testing organization TUV Rheinland, further enhancing the...

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Jul 27, 2023 | Industry News

Dioxycle Raises $17 million to Transform CO₂ Emissions into Sustainable Chemicals

Dioxycle, a French American start-up that transforms CO2 emissions into high-value, sustainable chemicals, announces the successful closure of its Series A funding round of 17 million dollars. The...

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Jul 26, 2023 | Industry News

Braskem Expands Bio-based Ethylene Production by 30% with $ 87 million Investment

Braskem concluded a 30% increase in production capacity of its bio-based ethylene plant in June, located in the Petrochemical Complex of Triunfo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The US$ 87 million...

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Jul 24, 2023 | Industry News

New Graphene based Material Converts Polymers into Water-dispersible Nanoparticles

A group of researchers from the Institute of Carbochemistry (ICB) of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) has achieved significant progress in the development of more efficient and...

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Jul 24, 2023 | Industry News

LUCRA Project Commences to Convert Organic Waste into Bio-Based Succinic Acid

The first phase of the four-year Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) Project LUCRA kicked-off in Ghent. LUCRA aims to demonstrate a unique process to convert underutilized organic...

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Jul 21, 2023 | Industry News

GAIL Collaborates with LanzaTech to Convert Waste CO₂ into Valuable Chemicals

GAIL (India) Limited and LanzaTech Global, have entered a partnership to explore innovative technology solutions that advance GAIL’s Net Zero 2040 goals and have the potential to support wider...

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Jul 21, 2023 | Industry News

Huntsman & V Carbon Technologies to Recycle Composites & its Carbon Fibers

Huntsman and V-Carbon Technologies combine their expertise to actively pursue solutions for solving the composites recycling challenge. Experts in Huntsman’s Advanced Materials division approached...

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Jul 20, 2023 | Industry News

SCGC & IHI Collaborate to Convert CO₂ into Light Olefins Using CCU Technology

SCG Chemicals Public Company Limited or SCGC, and IHI, a leading Japanese company have entered into a collaboration to demonstrate a pilot plant for testing carbon dioxide capture and utilization...

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