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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...
Jan 82 min read
Sekisui Plans Perovskite Solar Cell Production, Installation on Bullet Train Soundproofing Walls
Bullet train (Shinkansen) operator  Central Japan Railway and Sekisui Chemical have concluded a joint development contract to develop...
Dec 18, 20241 min read
Novel PP Clarifier Embodies Paradigm Shift in Polymer Industry
Adeka has just launched an innovative clarifier for polypropylene (PP) with a new brand name—Transparex (product name: ADK Transparex CA...
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 19, 20242 min read
BASF 3D-Prints Catalysts
X3D® technology produces catalysts with optimal shapes to maximize performance and efficiency while minimizing energy consumption...
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, 20241 min read
GFRP Composite Rebar Gets Global Boost
Talk rebar and one would normally envision rusty metal rod. Now, a glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) composite rebar is getting a...
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,...
Oct 7, 20242 min read
Lanxess Exits Polymers Business
Announcing on October 3 that it would be selling its Urethane Systems business to Japan's Ube Corp., German materials supplier Lanxess...
Sep 24, 20245 min read
California Sues ExxonMobil for Deceiving Public on Plastic Product Recyclability
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has announced the filing of a lawsuit against ExxonMobil for allegedly engaging in a decades-long...
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 22, 20241 min read
Ube Machinery Debuts 9000-tonne Giga Casting Press
Machinery has debuted a newly-developed die casting machine for giga casting, a form of die casting technology that uses aluminum alloy...
Aug 22, 20241 min read
Mitsubishi Chemical Investigates End-of-life-tire Conversion to Carbon Black
The Mitsubishi Chemical Group (MCG) has launched a study chemically recycle of end-of-life tires (ELTs) by utilizing the coke ovens at...
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