Industry News

31. Rosti To Offer Major CO² Reductions With Introduction Of Roctool Technology In Manufacturing Processes 3/16/2021

    Rosti Group, the European headquartered technology led plastic moulding company and contract manufacturer, announces investment into Roctool systems. Rosti sits at the centre of the supply chain and has a duty and an opportunity to make a positive environmental impact on the plastics industry

32. Sinopec Accelerates Hydrogen Development To Build A Global Leading Clean Energy Chemical Company 3/12/2021

    Mr. Ma Yongsheng, President of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (HKG: 0386, "Sinopec") and an academic at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, proposed the development of the hydrogen industry during the two sessions that were held in Beijing recently. Mr. Ma suggested that more efforts should be made in the areas of top-level design, core technology, R&D, standard systems formulation, and industrial policy support

33. Amcor Announces New Partnership With Alliance To End Plastic Waste 3/9/2021

    Amcor has announced that it is joining the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (the Alliance) at Executive Committee level

34. Interfacial Launches Highly Filled, Proprietary Polymer Masterbatches In Partnership With NAGASE Specialty Materials 2/5/2021

    Interfacial Consultants ("Interfacial"), a Wisconsin-based innovator in advanced materials, has recently released two disruptive, highly filled masterbatch technologies, to be distributed by its sister company NAGASE Specialty Materials ("NSM")

35. ICIS Launches The Recycling Supply Tracker To Increase Visibility In The Global Plastic Market 2/1/2021

    With demand currently outstripping supply, particularly for food grade packaging plastics, many FMCGs, manufacturers and converters are finding sourcing the feedstock they require to hit regulatory and sustainability goals challenging

36. Dow, Liby And LOVERE Ink MoU To Advance Sustainability In Packaging Agenda 1/20/2021

    Dow (NYSE: DOW), Liby, a leading laundry brand in China, and LOVERE, an internet environmental tech company, has signed a strategic three-way Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to address plastic packaging waste and promote a circular plastics economy in China.

37. Polyplastics Targets PBT And PPS Grades In Sensors For Autonomous Driving Applications 1/12/2021

    The growing trend toward electric vehicles is spurring materials suppliers like Polyplastics Co., Ltd., a leading global supplier of engineering plastics, to position its innovative resin products for use in Advanced Driver-Assistance System(ADAS) parts that enable autonomous driving

38. Braskem Announces Research Partnership For Sustainable Plastic Production Using CO₂ Capture And Utilization Technology 12/14/2020

    Braskem (B3: BRKM3, BRKM5 and BRKM6;NYSE: BAK; LATIBEX: XBRK), the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas and a leading producer of biopolymers in the world, has joined forces with the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) to develop a new route for producing ethylene, a raw material used to make thermoplastic resins.

39. LyondellBasell And SUEZ Increase Plastics Recycling Capacity 12/7/2020

    LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) one of the world's largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies and SUEZ (EPA: SEV), a world leader in environmental services, today jointly announced the acquisition of TIVACO, a plastics recycling company located in Blandain, Belgium.

40. Trinseo Starts Up New TPE Pilot Facility In Hsinchu, Taiwan 12/2/2020

    Trinseo (NYSE: TSE), a global materials solutions provider and manufacturer of plastics, latex binders and synthetic rubber, announced today the inauguration of its Thermoplastic Elastomers (TPE) pilot facility in Hsinchu, Taiwan.