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ENEOS, Mærsk To Invest $100m in Green Methanol Portfolio
Japan’s leading energy company has signed an investment agreement with C2X to advance the development of the Beaver Lake Renewable Energy...
Apr 162 min read


Borealis Launches Borcycle mLLDPE Flexible Packaging Grade with 85% PCR Content
Borealis introduces Borcycle M CWT120CL, a recycled linear low-density polyethylene (rLLDPE) grade containing 85% post-consumer...
Apr 132 min read


Japanese Consortium Considers Forest Residue as Bio-naphtha Source, and More
Japan Airlines, Marubeni, Mitsubishi Chemical, Chugoku Lumber, Boeing Japan, and Obayashi have concluded a memorandum of understanding on...
Mar 312 min read


Braskem Siam JV Secures Bio-Ethanol Source for Bio-PE Project
Braskem Siam, a joint venture between SCG Chemicals (SCGC), and Braskem, the global leader in bioplastics from Brazil, has signed a...
Mar 241 min read


LG Chem Accelerates Commercial Production of 100% Plant-Based Acrylic Acid
G Chem has launched prototype production of 100% bio-acrylic acid, which has received USDA Certified Bio-based Product (BIOPREFERRED)...
Feb 202 min read


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 182 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...
Feb 51 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...
Jan 272 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 7, 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 8, 20242 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 24, 20245 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 17, 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 11, 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 5, 20242 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...
Sep 3, 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...
Aug 22, 20241 min read


Carbon Emissions Converted to Plastics
eFuels leader Infinium and Borealis, a leading supplier of advanced and sustainable plastic solutions, have entered into an agreement to...
Aug 22, 20242 min read


LG Chem Adds Eco-friendliness to Flame-Retardant Plastics
Korea’s LG Chem has revealed that its PFAS*-free flame-retardant polycarbonate/acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (PC/ABS) material...
Aug 13, 20242 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...
Aug 7, 20241 min read
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