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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 18, 2021 | Industry News

New Way to Transform Used Plastic into Carbon Nanotubes

The new method from researchers at RMIT University can produce high-value products from plastic – carbon nanotubes and clean liquid fuel – while simultaneously upcycling agricultural and organic...

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Oct 14, 2021 | Industry News

Carbios Opens Demonstration Plant with Enzymatic Recycling Process

Carbios announced the official opening and launch of an industrial demonstration plant operating with its enzymatic recycling technology, C-ZYME®, which was installed on the Cataroux site in...

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Oct 12, 2021 | Product News

Avient Displays Specialty Additives and More at Fakuma 2021

Avient Corporation unveiled new bio-filled polymer grades at the international trade fair for plastics processing, Fakuma. Based on polymers such as polypropylene, the new formulations also include...

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Oct 15, 2021 | Industry News

ROWA Masterbatch & Partners to Curb Microplastics Pollution

As a MINUTEX partner, ROWA Masterbatch is working together with other members representing SMEs, industry, and research to establish and market ecologically sustainable and economically sound...

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Oct 13, 2021 | Industry News

TOMRA Opens Plastic Flakes Sorting Facility in Italy

Under the theme of “Testing is believing,” TOMRA representatives welcomed approximately 100 participants to its exclusive opening event and guided tour of the new flake sorting facility, located...

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Oct 12, 2021 | Industry News

Cargill to Take Over Arkema’s Epoxides Business

Cargill has entered into an agreement to acquire Arkema’s epoxides business which includes a facility located in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota. After closing, the investment will give Cargill...

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Oct 11, 2021 | Industry News

Trinseo Signs Offtake Agreement to Receive r-styrene from Indaver

Trinseo and Indaver have signed an offtake agreement for recycled styrene. Under the terms of the agreement, Trinseo will buy a minimum of 50 percent of the r-styrene produced at Indaver for a...

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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 | 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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