Industry News

  1. Itero To Scale Plastic-To-Product Recycling With €6M Investment, Led By Infinity Recycling's Circular Plastics Fund 7/25/2022

    Itero Technologies, chemical recycling technology provider, has received a €6m investment, with €5m from Infinity Recycling's Circular Plastics Fund (CPF), to support the design and construction of Itero's first at-scale demonstration plant located at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus, Geleen, NL

  2. KBC Joins Forces With CiT To Launch Rigorous Simulation Software For The Design And Optimization Of Polymer Plant Processes 7/12/2022

    KBC (A Yokogawa Company) announces a partnership with Computing in Technology (CiT), the leading source of simulation software for modelling different polymer processes. Combining over 50 years of simulation software experience, this collaboration brings together the CiT Predici modeling software with the KBC Petro-SIM® simulation platform and automated digital twin simulator to provide the first comprehensive solution that reduces polymer process scale-up risks and experimental time

  3. Braskem Extends Relationship With Nexus Circular Through Mou For Commercial Off-Take Of Circular Plastic Feedstocks From New Advanced Recycling Facility 7/11/2022

    Nexus Circular and Braskem S.A. (B3: BRKM3, BRKM5, and BRKM6;NYSE: BAK; LATIBEX: XBRK) ("Braskem"), the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas, as well as a market leader and pioneer producer of biopolymers on an industrial scale, today announced that they have signed a detailed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to secure the production output from a new advanced recycling facility planned near Chicago, IL

  4. Biomerics Launches Interventional Medical Plastics Division With Acquisition OF Dependable Plastics 7/11/2022

    Biomerics, the leading vertically integrated medical device contract manufacturer in the interventional device market, announced the acquisition of Dependable Plastics and creation of a new division -- Biomerics Interventional Medical Plastics (IMP) Division

  5. McCormick® Introduces 100% Recycled Plastic Food Color Bottle From Berry Global 7/6/2022

    To help advance their commitment of achieving 100% packaging that can be recycled, repurposed, or reused, McCormick is joining with packaging and plastics industry leader, Berry Global (NYSE: BERY). The collaboration leverages Berry's expertise and access to mechanically recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET)

  6. KBR Announces Investment In Mura Technology To Advance The Plastics Circular Economy 6/1/2022

    KBR, Inc. (NYSE: KBR) is pleased to announce it has entered into an agreement to invest an additional $100 million in Mura Technology ("Mura") bringing KBR's aggregate investment in Mura to 18.5%

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. EY Joins Alliance To End Plastic Waste, Enhancing Measurement Through Deep Cross-Sector Experience 4/27/2022

    The EY organization has joined the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, alongside more than 90 companies, project collaborators, allies and supporters who are committed to ending plastic waste in the environment