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  1. INEOS Styrolution Confirms Its Investment Decision For Europe’s First Polystyrene Advanced Recycling Pilot Plant 11/25/2021

    INEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, has today confirmed its decision to invest into a pilot plant for advanced recycling of polystyrene

  2. Lummus Signs LOI With Phigenesis For Recycling Of Waste Plastics To Petrochemical Feedstock Materials 11/22/2021

    Lummus Technology, through its Green Circle subsidiary, announced that it has finalized a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Phigenesis, a UK-based company established to deliver ISCC+ certified renewable chemical feedstock for use in existing petrochemical plants to manufacture virgin grade plastics, suitable for all grades of application

  3. Shaping A Sustainable Future For A Common Plastic 11/18/2021

    Broad-based scientific team from government, academia and industry joins forces to identify new opportunities to reduce the environmental impact of polyurethane — one of the most widely used but little recycled plastic materials.

  4. Evonik To Expand Plasticizer Portfolio 11/15/2021

    Evonik plans to launch new plasticizer products based on the raw material INA (Isononanol) next year

  5. LANXESS Launches New Production Line For Water-Based Compounds In China 11/15/2021

    Specialty chemicals company LANXESS put a new production line for the manufacture of water-based compounds into operation in Nantong, China

  6. SABIC’s New Noryl Polyol Improves Performance Of MDI-BDO Cast Polyurethanes And Offers Alternative To TDI-MOCA Cured Systems 11/11/2021

    SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, today announced that its recently launched NORYL AP2001G aromatic polyol can significantly improve the performance of hot cast polyurethanes (PUs) based on methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) and polytetramethylene ether glycol (PTMG)

  7. Henkel And Nexa3D Sign Material Development Agreement For Next-Generation Functional Polymer 11/11/2021

    Henkel and Nexa3D, the maker of ultrafast polymer 3D printers, today announced the signing of a new material development agreement

  8. Honeywell Introduces Revolutionary Plastics Recycling Technology To Drive A Circular Plastics Economy 11/2/2021

    Honeywell (NASDAQ: HON) today announced the commercialization of a revolutionary process that expands the types of plastics that can be recycled and can produce feedstock used to make recycled plastics with a lower carbon footprint

  9. Lianyungang Petrochemical Co., Ltd. Selected Again LyondellBasell’s Hostalen ACP Technology 11/2/2021

    LyondellBasell the world’s largest licensor of polyolefin technologies, today announced Lianyungang Petrochemical Co., Ltd (a company of Zhejiang Satellite) has again selected LyondellBasell’s Hostalen “Advanced Cascade Process” (Hostalen ACP) technology for a second 400 kiloton (kt) per year high density polyethylene (HDPE) plant.

  10. Mitsubishi Chemical Licenses Patent For Biomass-Based Polyester To Mitsui Chemicals 10/28/2021

    Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (ʺMCCʺ; Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Masayuki Waga) hereby announces that it recently signed a licensing agreement with Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Osamu Hashimoto) for the related patent including MCC-owned basic patent (JP4380654) on a biomass-based polyester.