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31. BP’s New Technology To Enable Circularity For Unrecyclable PET Plastic Waste 10/24/2019

    BP has developed an enhanced recycling technology, BP Infinia, that enables currently unrecyclable polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic waste to be diverted from landfill or incineration and instead transformed back into new, virgin-quality feedstocks.

32. Plastics Recycling: Total announces Plans To Double Its Capacity Of Recycled Polypropylene For The Automotive Industry 10/22/2019

    Total has decided to double the production capacity of its affiliate Synova to meet growing market demand for high-performance recycled materials.

33. Total Announces Plans To Double Its Capacity Of Recycled Polypropylene For The Automotive Industry 10/22/2019

    Total has decided to double the production capacity of its affiliate Synova to meet growing market demand for high-performance recycled materials. By early 2021, Normandy-based Synova, a French leader in its sector, will produce 40,000 tons per year of recycled polypropylene that meets the demanding quality standards of automotive OEMs and carmakers.

34. LyondellBasell Announces Construction Of New Small-Scale Molecular Recycling Facility 10/15/2019

    LyondellBasell today announced that it is building a new small-scale pilot facility at its Ferrara, Italy site moving another step closer to converting post-consumer plastic waste into new plastics on a commercial scale

35. International Recycling Group, LLC, Announces MOU On Plastics Recycling Arrangement With Stelco Inc. Of Canada 10/11/2019

    International Recycling Group, LLC, (“IRG”), a privately-held New York start-up, signed a memorandum of understanding with Stelco Inc. (“Stelco”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of parent company, Stelco Holdings Inc. (TSX: STLC) to enter into exclusive discussions with Stelco in Canada with respect to the potential supply and use of IRG’s proprietary polymer-based product in Stelco’s steel production facilities

36. New GN800 Thermoformer Significantly Raises SupplyOne Plastics' Manufacturing Speed And Output 9/25/2019

    SupplyOne Plastics, a leading custom thermoformer based in Reading, Pa., has expanded its manufacturing capabilities and increased production speed and output with the installation of a new GN800 High-Speed Form/Cut/Stack Thermoformer from GN Thermoforming Equipment for the manufacture of food, industrial, and electronics packaging

37. LANXESS Inaugurates High-Tech Plastics Plant In China 9/25/2019

    Specialty chemicals company LANXESS officially inaugurated its new plant in Changzhou, China, on September 25, 2019. The compounding facility produces Durethan- and Pocan-branded high-tech plastics, especially for the automotive sector and the electrical and electronics industry

38. Grace Licenses UNIPOL® PP Process Technology To Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited 9/25/2019

    W. R. Grace & Co. (NYSE:GRA), the leading independent supplier of polyolefin catalyst technology and polypropylene (PP) process technology, has licensed its UNIPOL® PP Process Technology to Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL)

39. Dow And UPM Partner To Produce Plastics Made With Renewable Feedstock 9/24/2019

    Dow, in partnership with UPM Biofuels, a producer of advanced biofuels, announces the commercialization of a plastics offering for the packaging industry made from a bio-based renewable feedstock

40. 3D Systems Unveils Breakthrough Material To Enable Direct Digital Production Of Plastic Parts 9/24/2019

    Today, 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) unveiled Figure 4 Production Black 10 (PRO-BLK 10) - a revolutionary production material for additive manufacturing applications that enables manufacturers to directly produce end-use plastic parts without tooling