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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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Feb 24, 2023 | Industry News

LyondellBasell Signs Contract to Receive Recycled Feedstock from Nexus Circular

LyondellBasell and Nexus Circular announce that they have signed a definite long-term contract, which will supply LyondellBasell with approximately 24,000 tons of recycled feedstock per year. The...

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Feb 23, 2023 | Industry News

INEOS Secures 3.5 Bn EUR for the Most Environmentally Sustainable Cracker in Europe

INEOS Olefins Belgium announces it has raised €3.5 billion to support the construction and operation of the most environmentally sustainable cracker in Europe. This is the largest investment in the...

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Feb 23, 2023 | Industry News

MGC to Use Mitsui Chemicals’ Biomass BPA as Feedstock for its PC Resin

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. and Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. jointly announce that MGC launches initiatives to manufacture and market biomass polycarbonate resin (PC) as part of the two...

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Feb 23, 2023 | Industry News

Avantium & Origin Materials to Accelerate FDCA Mass Production

Avantium N.V., and Origin Materials, Inc. announces a partnership to accelerate the mass production of FDCA and PEF for use in advanced chemicals and plastics. The partnership aims to bring the...

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Feb 22, 2023 | Industry News

ExxonMobil to Deploy Honeywell’s Carbon Capture Technologies in Texas

Honeywell announces that ExxonMobil will deploy one of Honeywell's carbon capture technologies – Honeywell's CO2 Fractionation and Hydrogen Purification System - at its integrated complex in...

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Feb 21, 2023 | Industry News

LANXESS Develops Tool to Automatically Calculate Carbon Footprint of its Products

LANXESS develops a tool that automatically calculates the carbon footprint for the Group’s products. The Product Carbon Footprint Engine uses existing data from various business units and calculates...

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Feb 20, 2023 | Product News

Solvay’s HQ & MeHQ Get ISCC PLUS Certification to Comply with Mass Balance

Solvay announces that the production of its hydroquinone (HQ) and hydroquinone monomethylether (MeHQ) in Saint-Fons, France is accredited to comply with the mass balance accounting regime of the...

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Feb 17, 2023 | Industry News

Research Shows Bacteria Can Break Down 1% of Fed Plastic Per Year into CO₂

The bacterium Rhodococcus ruber eats and actually digests plastic. This has been shown in laboratory experiments by PhD student Maaike Goudriaan at Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research...

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Feb 17, 2023 | Industry News

Nexus Circular & CPChem Partner for Advanced Recycled Feedstocks Supply

Nexus Circular announces that the company signs a long-term commercial agreement with Chevron Phillips Chemical for the supply of a significant volume annually of circular liquid feedstocks from a...

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Feb 16, 2023 | Industry News

DIC’s GHG Emissions Reduction Targets Get Endorsed by Science Based Targets Initiative

DIC Corporation announces that the DIC Group’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets have been officially endorsed by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) as being consistent with levels...

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