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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 25, 2022 | Industry News

Encina to Produce Circular Chemicals Using Technip’s Pyrolysis Reactor

Technip Energies announces that it has signed an agreement with Encina Development Group, LLC (Encina) to deliver the Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) of the fluidized bed catalytic pyrolysis...

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Feb 24, 2022 | Industry News

Covestro & Mitsui Enter Agreement on Mass-balanced Raw Materials Supply

Covestro has entered into an agreement with Mitsui Chemicals on the supply of raw materials phenol and acetone from ISCC Plus certified mass-balanced sources. Both components will be used for the...

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Feb 24, 2022 | Industry News

Cabot to Start Operation at New Specialty Compounds Facility in Indonesia

Cabot Corporation announces the groundbreaking of a new specialty compounds facility in Cilegon, Indonesia. The new facility is co-located with Cabot’s existing carbon black manufacturing site and...

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Feb 22, 2022 | Industry News

Honeywell to Supply Recycled Polymer Feedstock to TotalEnergies

Honeywell and TotalEnergies announce a strategic agreement to promote the development of advanced plastic recycling. Under this agreement, Honeywell agreed to supply TotalEnergies with recycled...

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Feb 18, 2022 | Industry News

Trinseo & Partners to Build Chemical Recycling Plant for PS in Europe

Trinseo announces plans for a world-class chemical recycling plant in Europe are progressing rapidly...

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Feb 17, 2022 | Industry News

Global Bioenergies Develops Process to Convert Plant Resources into Isobutene

Global Bioenergies has developed a process for converting plant resources into isobutene, one of the main building blocks of chemistry, whose derivatives are used in cosmetics, fine chemicals...

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Feb 17, 2022 | Industry News

Honeywell Introduces New Technology for Renewable Naphtha Production

Honeywell announces that it has introduced a new solution for producing renewable naphtha for petrochemical production using the commercially proven Honeywell UOP Ecofining™ technology...

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Feb 17, 2022 | Industry News

Linde Expands Supply Agreement with Celanese for Decarbonization Solutions

Linde announces that it has expanded its existing agreement with Celanese Corporation and will begin supplying carbon dioxide and hydrogen to the Celanese manufacturing facility in Clear Lake...

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Feb 16, 2022 | Industry News

OQEMA Acquires Alpkem, an Inorganic Chemicals Supplier in Slovenia

OQEMA expands its business through the acquisition of Alpkem d.o.o., strengthening its inorganic product line, circular economy business and the European infrastructure in South East Europe...

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Feb 15, 2022 | Industry News

Braskem & Nexus Collaborate to Convert Plastic Films into Circular Feedstock

Braskem S.A. ("Braskem") announces its investment in Nexus Circular LLC ("Nexus"). Using a proprietary advanced recycling technology, Nexus converts a range of hard-to-recycle plastics especially...

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