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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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May 12, 2022 | Industry News

Evonik to Divest Performance Materials Business

Evonik to divest all three businesses of Performance Materials - Superabsorbents, Functional Solutions and Performance Intermediates for its next phase of strategic transformation. Evonik aims to...

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May 12, 2022 | Industry News

bp to Receive Circular Naphtha from Clean Planet Energy’s ecoPlants

bp signs a ten-year offtake agreement with Clean Planet Energy, a UK-based company that is developing facilities to convert hard-to-recycle waste plastics into circular petrochemical feedstocks and...

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May 11, 2022 | Industry News

KRAHN Chemie to Distribute UPM Biochemicals’ Fillers for Plastics

KRAHN Chemie and UPM Biochemicals have signed an exclusive distribution agreement to market UPM BioMotion™ Renewable Functional Fillers (RFF) in Germany, Austria and Switzerland...

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May 10, 2022 | Industry News

Solvay’s New Platform to Focus on Sustainable Solutions & Biotechnology

Solvay is launching a new Renewable Materials and Biotechnology platform, dedicated to developing innovative and sustainable solutions for a range of markets, using renewable feedstocks and...

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May 10, 2022 | Industry News

CPChem to Begin HDS Unit for Mercaptans Production in Belgium

Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPChem) holds a ceremony for a new hydrodesulfurization (HDS) unit at its Tessenderlo facility in Belgium. The ceremony was witnessed by the governor of the province of...

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May 9, 2022 | Industry News

Braskem & Lummus Partner for Green Ethylene Production Technology

Braskem and Lummus Technology form a partnership that aims to license Braskem's technology to produce green ethylene worldwide. This partnership will accelerate the use of bioethanol for chemicals...

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May 5, 2022 | Industry News

Borealis Selects Axens' Process to Upgrade Its Plastics Pyrolysis Oil Unit

Borealis and Axens sign a license agreement for the Rewind® Mix process in order to purify and upgrade 50 KTA of pyrolysis oils produced from plastics wastes at the petrochemical plant of Borealis...

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May 5, 2022 | Industry News

Arkema Receives Certification for Its Castor-derived Oleochemicals

Arkema’s corporate headquarters and its Marseille and Serquigny plants have received the SuCCESS™ certification. Arkema will now introduce a range of advanced Rilsan® polyamide 11 grades as well as...

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May 4, 2022 | Industry News

Emerald & Partners Launch Fund to Reduce Emissions in Packaging Lifecycle

Emerald Technology Ventures announces the launch of a fund focused on sustainable packaging, one of the first venture-backed investment vehicles targeting the full packaging lifecycle...

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May 3, 2022 | Industry News

LG Chem & KIST's R&D to Commercialize Carbon Neutrality Technologies

LG Chem and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) conduct joint R&D for commercialization of carbon neutrality technologies in full swing. The two institutes announced that it held...

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