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31. Honeywell To Provide Oleflex Technology To Anchorage Investments For Propylene Production In Egypt 4/26/2021

    Honeywell announced today that Anchorage Investments Ltd. will use Honeywell UOP’s C3 Oleflex technology to produce 750,000 metric tons per year of polymer-grade propylene for its new Anchor Benitoite petrochemicals complex in Suez, Egypt, near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal 

32. New Contract Awarded By Total Corbion PLA To Design A Biopolymer Plant In France 4/23/2021

    Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. announces that its subsidiary NextChem has been awarded today a contract by Total Corbion PLA, a 50/50 joint venture between Total and Corbion, to carry out a Front-End Engineering Design for their 100,000 tons per annum Poly Lactic Acid (PLA) plant in Grandpuits, France

33. Grace Licenses UNIPOL PP Process Technology To Enter Engineering Pte Ltd. 4/14/2021

    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 the new MTO Gas Chemical Complex located in the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan to Enter Engineering

34. American Packaging Corporation Joins Circular Great Lakes To Actively Combat Plastic Waste And Pollution 4/9/2021

    American Packaging Corporation (APC) today announced it has joined Circular Great Lakes as a corporate activation partner, a regional initiative led by the Council of the Great Lakes Region (CGLR)

35. Advanced Recycling Technologies And Collaborative Solutions To Lead The Transition To Circular Economy In Plastics 4/6/2021

    Frost & Sullivan's recent analysis, Convergence and Collaboration to Usher Circular Economy in the Plastics and Composites Industry, finds that leading brand owners and original equipment manufacturers in the industry are adopting strategies to integrate sustainability and circularity into their business activities following mounting pressure from consumers and government bodies

36. Sabic Is A Frontrunner In Industry To Launch Recycled Ocean Bound Plastics Portfolio 4/1/2021

    SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, has announced the launch of a new recycled material made from ocean bound plastic which has been recovered from ocean-feeding waterways and inland areas within a 50 kilometer radius of the ocean

37. The Recycling Partnership Announces Three Grants To Improve Polypropylene Curbside Recycling For Millions Of Americans 3/31/2021

    The Recycling Partnership today announced a second round of grant funding through its Polypropylene Recycling Coalition, distributing nearly $1 million in catalytic grants to advance polypropylene recycling in the U.S. Launched in July 2020, the Polypropylene Recycling Coalition (Coalition) is a cross-industry collaboration supported by steering committee members Keurig Dr Pepper, Braskem, NextGen Consortium, and the Walmart Foundation, along with other members of the polypropylene value chain. Polypropylene, sometimes referred to as No. 5 plastic, is used in an array of food and non-food packaging and is in strong demand as a recycled material

38. Green Science Alliance Developed Nano Cellulose Composite With Biomass Polyethylene And Biomass Polyamide (100% Biomass) 3/30/2021

    Environmental problem such as climate change caused by human population explosion and activity have become a serious issue. Especially the plastic pollution and microplastic problem in the marine environment is becoming a devastating problem

39. Clariant Joins The EU Circular Plastics Alliance 3/30/2021

    Clariant, a focused, sustainable and innovative specialty chemical company, today announced it has officially joined the EU Circular Plastics Alliance

40. LyondellBasell Licensed Proprietary Polyolefin Technology To Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group Co., Ltd. 3/30/2021

    LyondellBasell today announced that Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group Co., Ltd. (Ningxia Baofeng) has selected LyondellBasell’s world-leading polypropylene (PP), high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and low-density polyethylene (LDPE) technologies for three new polyolefin production lines