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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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Sep 17, 2021 | Industry News

Danimer Receives Grant to Use HOSO for PHA Production

Danimer Scientific receives grant from the United Soybean Board expand the Company’s evaluation of high-oleic soybean oil (HOSO) as a feedstock in the production of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA)...

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Sep 15, 2021 | Product News

BASF Launches Additive Solutions to Aid Mechanical Plastic Recycling

BASF has launched IrgaCycle™, a new range of additive solutions to address the imminent needs in plastics recycling. The new IrgaCycle™ range includes additive solutions that can help increase the...

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Sep 15, 2021 | Industry News

Sunlight Breaks Down Marine Plastics into Water-soluble Chemical Compounds

A group of scientists have found out that sunlight chemically transforms plastic into a suite of polymer, dissolved and gas-phased products. A new study showed that long sunlight exposure can...

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Sep 14, 2021 | Industry News

SCG Chemicals and Braskem to Produce Bio-based Ethylene in Thailand

Braskem has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the SCG Chemicals to perform studies to jointly invest in a new bio-ethanol dehydration plant in Thailand to produce bio-ethylene and...

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Sep 13, 2021 | Industry News

Shell Partners with BlueAlp for Advanced Plastic Waste Recycling Technology

Shell Ventures BV and BlueAlp Holding BV have announced a strategic partnership to develop, scale and deploy BlueAlp’s plastic waste to chemical feedstock technology. The technology transforms...

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Sep 10, 2021 | Industry News

Covestro’s MDI Production Site in Shanghai Obtains ISCC Plus Certification

Covestro has received ISCC Plus mass balance certification for its site in Shanghai, known as Covestro Integrated Site of Shanghai (CISS). The company can now offer its customers in the Asia Pacific...

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Sep 9, 2021 | Industry News

Researchers Develop Evolved Enzymes for Renewable Isobutene Production

The University of Manchester has revealed a breakthrough in the creation of evolved enzymes to support a renewable process to make one of the key building blocks of the chemical industry used in...

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Sep 8, 2021 | Industry News

LG Chem & Dansuk Industrial to Build HVO Plant in Korea

LG Chem has announced signed a Heads of Agreement (HOA) for the establishment of a hydro-treated vegetable oil (HVO) joint venture at the Dansuk Industrial headquarters in Siheung, Gyeonggi-do. The...

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Sep 6, 2021 | Industry News

U.S. DOE Grants Fund to Produce Bioplastics from Food Waste

Stephanie Lansing, professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology at the University of Maryland (UMD), is leading two new grants totaling $6 million from the U.S. Department of...

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Sep 6, 2021 | Industry News

Twelve and LanzaTech Partner to Transform CO₂ into Polypropylene

Carbon transformation company Twelve and LanzaTech have partnered to transform CO2 emissions into polypropylene. Twelve’s carbon transformation technology converts CO2 into materials that are...

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