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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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Mar 21, 2023 | Product News

SI Group will Present Additives to Increase Sustainability at Chinaplas 2023

SI Group will present its latest additives designed to increase sustainability, including its EVERCYCLE™ platform, at Chinaplas 2023 from April 17-20 at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Conference...

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Mar 20, 2023 | Product News

Ampacet’s Masterbatch Gets Selected as Plastics Recycling Awards 2023 Finalist

Ampacet’s GASTOP-Flex™ masterbatch is named a Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2023 finalist in the category of Product Technology Innovation of the Year. GASTOP-Flex™ is part of the Ampacet R3...

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Mar 20, 2023 | Product News

Additives for Advanced Circularity: What is New?

There have been several new additives and pigments, of late, that help to enhance recyclability of materials in a circular economy. Additives can be used to modify the properties plastics to make...

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Mar 17, 2023 | Industry News

Mura’s Tech Reduces Carbon Emissions from Plastic Wastes as per LCA Report

The peer-reviewed Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) published by Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at the University of Warwick reports that significantly reduced carbon emissions (measured as Global...

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Mar 16, 2023 | Industry News

MCG to Commercialize Chemical Recycling by Depolymerization of PC Resin

The Mitsubishi Chemical Group (the MCG Group) has started a study aimed at realizing a processing capacity of approximately 10,000 tons per year by 2030, seeking to commercialize the world's first...

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Mar 15, 2023 | Industry News

SABIC Partners with Coolbrook to Decarbonize Ethylene Production

SABIC signs an agreement with Coolbrook, a transformational technology and engineering company, to assess Coolbrook’s Roto Dynamic ReactorTM (RDR) technology in support of decarbonizing ethylene...

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Mar 14, 2023 | Industry News

BASF Begins Its First Bio-based Polyol Production in India

BASF begins production of its first bio-based polyol, Sovermol®, in Mangalore, India. This product serves the fast-growing demand of eco-friendly products for applications in New Energy Vehicles...

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Mar 13, 2023 | Industry News

KLK OLEO to Acquire Temix Oleo to Expand Offering for Oleochemicals

Temix Oleo SpA and KLK Emmerich GmbH, a subsidiary of Kuala Lumpur Kepong Berhad, under its resource-based manufacturing division known as KLK OLEO, have entered into a definitive agreement to...

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Mar 13, 2023 | Product News

OQ Chemicals Launches ISCC PLUS Certified OxBalance Isononanoic Acid

OQ Chemicals launches “OxBalance Isononanoic Acid”, the world’s first commercially available isononanoic acid that is produced from both bio-based and circular feedstocks and is ISCC PLUS...

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Mar 10, 2023 | Industry News

SBTi Approves Solvay’s 2030 Emission Reduction Targets

Solvay announces that the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a global body made up of leading climate organizations, has approved the Group’s 2030 emissions reduction targets. This validation...

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