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Yokohama Rubber, Zeon to Synthesize Butadiene from Ethanol
Zeon Corporation and The Yokohama Rubber Co. , have agreed to establish a bench facility to demonstrate technology for producing...


Feb 51 min read
MLTA to Speak at InnoPlast Planet-Friendly Plastics Conference
MLT Analytics has been invited to deliver a Special Presentation at the Planet-Friendly Plastics: Latest Advances conference organized by...


Jan 272 min read
Technip,LanzaTech Secure Funding to Commercializing CO2 to Ethylene Technology
Technip Energies and LanzaTech Global have revealed that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations...


Dec 18, 20242 min read
Adhesives Made from Captured CO2 Emissions
Henkel and Celanese Corporation have announced a partnership to enhance circularity in emulsion production by utilizing carbon...


Nov 7, 20242 min read
Dutch Bio-epoxy Consortium Welcomes Westlake Epoxy
TNO (the Dutch Organisation for Applied Scientific Research) has welcomed Westlake Epoxy to its Consortium B4, which aims to explore the...


Nov 6, 20242 min read
Citroniq Selects Nebraska for World's Largest Decarbonized Plastics Production Facility
The company's estimated $7.5 billion investment is projected to be the largest in Nebraska history and creates transformational...

Nov 1, 20242 min read
DOE Grant Supports Sustainable Rubber Synthesis
Bridgestone Americas  has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office to...


Oct 17, 20241 min read
Braskem-SGC JV Kicks Off Ethanol-to-Ethylene Project
Braskem Siam Company Limited, a joint venture of bio-based polyethylene supplier Braskem and Thailand's SCG Chemicals, has appointed...

Oct 8, 20242 min read
Dextrose Will Feed Bio-MEG Facility in Indiana
Sustainea and Primient have announced a co-location partnership for the supply of corn dextrose from Primient’s facility in Lafayette,...


Sep 17, 20242 min read
Braskem America Introduces Bio-Circular Polypropylene
Biopolymers pioneer Braskem has launched a bio-circular polypropylene (PP) under the brand name WENEW. WENEW is said to be a...


Sep 11, 20242 min read
Braskem Opens Renewable Innovation Center in U.S.
Braskem, the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas, as well as a market leader and pioneer producer of biopolymers on an...


Sep 9, 20242 min read
Budding Bio-PP Supplier Secures $12 Million in Funding
Citroniq Chemicals has secured $12 million in Series A investment for its proposed bio-based polypropylene (PP) mega-site in the state of...


Sep 5, 20242 min read
LanzaTech Licenses Waste-to-Ethanol Process in Japan
LanzaTech Global has signed a master license agreement with Sekisui Chemical to deploy at commercial scale a jointly developed platform...


Sep 3, 20241 min read
Dow-Mitsui Goes Bio, Idemitsu Opts for CR
Effective September 1, 2024, Mitsui & Dow Polychemicals has started marketing biomass-based ethylene-vinyl-acetate copolymer (EVA) and...


Aug 7, 20241 min read
Bio-based Material Mushrooms into EPS Alternative
Mushroom Materials, a New Zealand-based startup, is seeking to upend the expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam market with an innovative...


Apr 18, 20242 min read
World's First Large-scale Electrically Heated Steam Cracker Starts Up
BASF, SABIC, and Linde have inaugurated the world’s first demonstration plant for large-scale electrically heated steam cracking...


Mar 7, 20242 min read
ASEAN Circular Plastics Summit Slated for Malaysia in June
Apex Events is convening the ASEAN Circular Plastics Summit 2024 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on June 27–28. The organizer recently unveiled...


Mar 6, 20242 min read
PLAYMOBIL Selects Plant-based Styrenic for Sustainable Toy Line
PLAYMOBIL, a leading global toy producer, has selected plant-based ABS* and plant-based MBS** from INEOS Styrolution for their new...


Feb 9, 20243 min read
Lignin-reinforced PLA Imparts Antioxidant Effect with Controlled Biodegradability
KraussMaffei Extrusion has tied up with a Polish partner to develop a bio-based injection molding compound with enhanced mechanical...


Jan 3, 20242 min read
Baby Bottles are Bio-based
LyondellBasell and Pigeon Singapore – a market leader producing high-quality mother and baby care products for Southeast Asia, Middle...
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