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Milliken Prepares To Launch Major Clarifier Plant
5/19/2022
Milliken & Company will begin production at its new clarifier plant soon in Blacksburg, S.C. This significant additional capacity will address strong worldwide demand for clarified plastic products.
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Sabic Launches New Upcycled LNP ELCRIN IQ Resin Made With Ocean-Bound Plastic Waste To Help Reduce Pollution And Support Circularity
5/16/2022
SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, today introduced LNP ELCRIN WF0061BiQ resin, a novel material that uses ocean-bound polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles as a feed stream for chemical upcycling into polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) resin
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LG Chem Develops Advanced Plastic Product To Prevent Thermal Runaway In EV Batteries
5/16/2022
LG Chem today announced that it has developed a new plastic product for battery application that is capable of preventing the spread of flame in batteries, delivering the longest fire-resistance performance in the world
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Polyplastics' New Engineering Plastic Fine Powders Compatible With Wide Range Of Processing Methods
5/12/2022
Polyplastics Group has introduced a new series of engineering plastic fine powders which are compatible with a broad range of manufacturing methods
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Flowserve Valves Selected For Waste-To-Product Chemical Recycling Plant In Austria
5/11/2022
Flowserve Corporation, a leading provider of flow control products and services for the global infrastructure markets, announced today that it was awarded a contract to provide control and ball valves to OMV’s chemical recycling demonstration plant in the city of Schwechat, Austria, located approximately 16 km (10 miles) southeast of Vienna
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CJ BIO Launches PHACT® Brand Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Product Line
5/10/2022
CJ BIO, a division of South Korea-based CJ CheilJedang, has introduced PHACT® Marine Biodegradable Polymers based on its proprietary polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) technology. Being a part of the solution to change the trajectory of the plastic pollution challenge and preserving the planet is the essence of the PHACT brand
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bp And Clean Planet Energy Reach Agreement To Help Advance The Circular Plastics Economy
5/9/2022
bp has signed a ten-year offtake agreement with Clean Planet Energy, a UK-based company that is developing facilities to convert hard-to-recycle waste plastics into circular petrochemical feedstocks and also into ultra-low sulphur diesel (ULSD). Clean Planet Energy designs and builds facilities — which they refer to as ecoPlants — that are expected to process plastics typically rejected by traditional recycling centres and so would otherwise be sent to landfill or incineration
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Premix Signs $79.9M Contract For A New Production Facility In The U.S.
5/9/2022
The U.S. Department of Defense, working with the Department of Health and Human Services, awarded a $79.9 million contract to Premix, Inc. to establish a plastic compound manufacturing plant in North Carolina
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UFP Industries Acquires Cedar Poly LLC, Adding Plastic Recycling To Its Retail Operations
5/9/2022
UFP Industries (Nasdaq: UFPI) today announced that its affiliate, Deckorators, Inc., acquired Cedar Poly LLC, for $17 million. The purchase price includes incentive payments of up to $1.5 million over three years if Cedar Poly meets certain performance goals
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AGC To Expand Capacity Of Chlor-Alkali Business In Thailand
5/6/2022
AGC (AGC Inc., Headquarters: Tokyo, President: Yoshinori Hirai), a world-leading manufacturer of glass, chemicals and high-tech materials, has decided to increase the production capacity of AGC Vinythai Public Company Limited (to be established in July 2022), a new company to integrate AGC’s chlor-alkali business in the Indochina Peninsula