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Lummus, Citroniq Announce Licensing and Engineering Agreements for Green PP Plants
Agreements highlight Lummus and Citroniq's progress in meeting surging demand for sustainable polypropylene Lummus Technology and...
Nov 10, 20232 min read


SK Geo Centric Plans Second Pyrolysis Plant
SK Geo Centric is joining forces with Plastic Energy, the UK-based plastic pyrolysis specialist, to construct a waste plastic pyrolysis...
Nov 7, 20232 min read


Lummus, RWDC to Accelerate and Scale PHA Production
Technology licensor Lummus Technology, and biopolymer material solutions developer RWDC Industries have signed what’s called a binding...
Sep 15, 20232 min read


Braskem, SCG Confirm Thai Bio-based Polyethylene Project
The companies join forces to advance in a bio-based ethylene project that will deliver feedstock for the production of 200,000...
Aug 18, 20232 min read


New POE Supplier Emerges in Korea
Korea’s Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical has completed construction of a polyolefin elastomer (POE) pilot plant, representing a...
Jul 27, 20231 min read


Lummus Partners with Texplore to License HDPE Technology
Lummus Technology and SCG Chemicals subsidiary Texplore have entered into a commercial cooperation agreement to license and market Excene...
May 9, 20231 min read


Crude-to-chemicals Complex Construction Kicks Off in Korea
Korea's S-OIL has broken ground on the Shaheen project in South Korea. Once complete, the Shaheen complex will include the world’s...
Mar 28, 20231 min read


BASF Targets Efficient Li-ion Battery Recycling
BASF has entered into a long-term collaboration agreement with Tenova Advanced Technologies (TAT) of Yokneam, Israel, for BASF's battery...
Feb 24, 20231 min read


Braskem Taps Nexus Circular for Chemically-recycled Feedstocks
Nexus Circular and Braskem have signed a 10-year definitive commercial agreement for the supply of circular feedstocks from a new...
Jan 26, 20232 min read


Petron Scientech, Mitsui to Explore Development of Bio-Based Ethylene Infrastructure to Make Bio-PE
Petron Scientech (PSI), a pioneer and leading global licensor of low carbon intensity (CI) and energy efficient “Ethanol to Ethylene”...
Dec 20, 20221 min read


Project Air: Swedish Green Chemistry Investment Secures EU Funding
The European Union Innovation Fund has selected Project Air, a unique production facility for sustainable methanol in Stenungsund,...
Jul 15, 20222 min read


EU Innovation Fund Bankrolls Neste Advanced Recycling Project in Porvoo
Neste has received a positive grant decision for up to €135 million from the EU Innovation Fund for the its project to establish chemical...
Jul 15, 20222 min read

Shell and Dow Start Up E-Cracking Furnace Experimental Unit
Milestone demonstrates significant step toward decarbonising a critical petrochemical manufacturing process. The e-cracking furnace...
Jun 28, 20222 min read


Sumitomo exits caprolactam business as it eyes more profitable, sustainable businesses
Sumitomo Chemical’s April 15 announcement that it will be exiting the caprolactam business, closing down the 85,000-tonnes/year polyamide...
Apr 18, 20222 min read


Sumitomo Chemical Completes Bio-ethylene Pilot Plant
Japan's Sumitomo Chemical has finished constructing a pilot facility in Chiba Prefecture for producing ethylene from ethanol and plans to...
Apr 12, 20221 min read

Repsol Takes Stake in Waste-to-renewable Fuels and Chemicals Firm Enerkem
Repsol has acquired a minority stake in the Canadian company Enerkem, a technological world leader in the production of renewable fuels...
Apr 11, 20221 min read


Styrene-Butadiene Rubber from Plastic Waste Plastic
Asahi Kasei has teamed up with Shell to source feedstock derived from waste plastic to manufacture sustainable solution-polymerized...
Nov 26, 20212 min read


Clariant, Linde unveil groundbreaking ethylene catalysts
Clariant Catalysts has teamed up with Linde Engineering to develop new catalysts for the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane (ODH-E), an...
Oct 8, 20211 min read


Korea is really going green
The spate of green-tinged announcements from South Korea's petrochemical sector continues. Following on from its rebranding, SK Geo...
Sep 20, 20212 min read

US, South African Researchers in Separate Efforts to Develop CO2 Utilization Technologies
A team of researchers from Sasol and the Catalysis Institute at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa has made advancements...
Sep 8, 20212 min read
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