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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 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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Sep 27, 2021 | Industry News

Borealis Cracker Tests Renewably-sourced Feedstock

The Borealis cracker in Stenungsund, Sweden, is carrying out its first test run of a feedstock derived solely from vegetable-based waste streams. The test, which will be carried out throughout the...

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Sep 22, 2021 | Industry News

European Plastics Producers Call for Mandatory EU Recycled Content Target

European plastics producers support the European Commission’s proposal for a mandatory EU recycled content target for plastics packaging and are today calling for a target of 30 percent for plastics...

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Sep 22, 2021 | Industry News

Dow Partners to Develop Recyclable Packaging Using Circular Polymers

Dow and Bolloré have joined forces on a pilot project which enables the use of recycled content in new food contact packaging applications which can in turn be recycled after use. This partnership...

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