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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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Oct 8, 2021 | Industry News

Nestlé & Yes Recycling Collaborate to Process Hard-to-recycle Plastics

Nestlé UK and Ireland has partnered with a new recycling firm, Yes Recycling, in Fife, Scotland to process hard-to-recycle plastics. The multi-million pound plastic recycling plant in Fife will turn...

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Oct 7, 2021 | Product News

ROWA Masterbatch Offers Polymer-specific Masterbatch for Plastic Recycling

ROWA Masterbatch team has been recycling plastics efficiently, and not just since the current Packaging Act, which aims to increase the recycling rate of packaging waste, came into force in 2019...

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Oct 6, 2021 | Product News

BYK to Highlight Recycling Additives at Fakuma 2021

In the interests of conserving natural resources and of more sustainable economic activities, BYK has taken an important step towards upcycling with the new product series RECYCLOBYK...

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Oct 6, 2021 | Industry News

Adient to Utilize Covestro’s Polyol to Produce Molded PU Foam

Adient and Covestro, join forces on the way to improving the circular economy. From November 2021, Adient will be integrating cardyon®, a polyol made using Covestro’s CO₂-technology, as a...

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Oct 6, 2021 | Industry News

Dow and Partners Start Recycling Plant to Convert PU Foam into Polyols

Dow Polyurethanes and Orrion Chemicals Orgaform together with Eco-mobilier, H&S Anlagentechnik and Vita Group have inaugurated a pioneering mattress recycling plant as part of the RENUVA™ program...

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Oct 5, 2021 | Industry News

New Research Evaluates Impact of Plastic Waste Chemical Recycling

New research from the College of Engineering aims to ease the process of chemical recycling – an emerging industry that could turn waste products back into natural resources by physically breaking...

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Oct 4, 2021 | Product News

Perstorp Offers ISCC-certified Plasticizer for Sustainable PVC Roofs

Emoltene™ 100 Pro is a next generation plasticizer certified according to the ISCC PLUS system (International Sustainability & Carbon Certification). The product is designed to reduce the carbon...

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Oct 1, 2021 | Product News

Milliken to Showcase Performance Modifiers for rPP at PRSE 2021

Milliken & Company supports the plastics recycling industry with advanced polymer additives that allow for the increased use of recycled content by improving the properties of recycled polypropylene...

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Sep 28, 2021 | Industry News

Versalis Acquires Ecoplastic Plants for Styrenic Polymer Recycling

Versalis, Eni’s chemical company, has acquired on an exclusive basis the technology and plants of Ecoplastic, an Italian company of the De Berg group specializing in the recovery, recycling, and...

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Sep 27, 2021 | Industry News

Neste and Kinder Morgan Collaborate for Renewable Feedstock Used in Polymers

Kinder Morgan, Inc., is partnering with Neste, to create a premier domestic raw material storage and logistics hub in the United States, supporting increased production of feedstock for polymers and...

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