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Sep 245 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 172 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 52 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 31 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 221 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 222 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...

Jul 192 min read

Shell Pulls Back on Advanced Recycling

Shell's 2023 sustainability report came out in March but is only now that reports are emerging regarding the oil major's inability to...

Jun 281 min read

Trinseo Opens Next-Gen Depolymerization Facility in Italy

Trinseo has opened a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) depolymerization facility in Rho, Italy. The pilot facility represents a significant...

Jun 261 min read

SCG, Toyo to Jointly Develop Chemical Recycling Technology

SCG Chemicals affiliate Circular Plas and Japan's Toyo Engineering are collaborating to expand capacity and business opportunities for...

May 173 min read

Dow SCGC Sign MOU for Circular Plastics

First in the Asia Pacific market to seek a holistic value chain solution for circular plastic. 200,000 tonnes/year of plastic waste will...

Apr 11 min read

Idemitsu Mulls Bio-naphtha-based Ethylene Production in Japan

Hidden away in a joint press release announcing that Idemitsu Kosan and Mitsui Chemicals would further optimize ethylene production at...

Mar 72 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...

Feb 231 min read

MLT Analytics at APIC 2024 Korea

MLT Analytics will be attending the Asia Petrochemical Industry Conference (APIC 2024) in Seoul, Korea this coming May 30th and 31st. We...

Jan 122 min read

Lummus Invests in Microwave Assisted Pyrolysis Technology

Lummus Technology has announced a major investment in Resynergi to scale production of the latter's modular Continuous Microwave Assisted...

Dec 14, 20231 min read

Gunze "Launches Eco-friendly" PS/PET Composite Shrink Film

Japanese packaging concern Gunze has debuted what's described as a an eco-friendly lightweight shrink film for automatic sleeve...

Nov 21, 20232 min read

LyondellBasell to Build Industrial-scale Advanced Recycling Plant in Germany

LyondellBasell (LYB) has made the final investment decision to build the company's first industrial-scale catalytic advanced recycling...

Nov 7, 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 1, 20232 min read

NGOs: Chemical Recycling is NOT the Answer

A recent report by Plastics Europe paints a scenario where by 2050, making plastics using chemical recycled feedstocks will be a more...

Nov 1, 20232 min read

The Circular Future of Polymer Production in Europe

At the recent Global Plastics Summit that we attended in Bangkok, there were calls from NGOs and governmental bureaucrats to...

Oct 19, 20232 min read

SK chemicals Stores Music on Chemically Recycled PET

Global record producer Sonopress has developed the EcoRecord with “circular recycled PET” Replacing PVC, the “circularly recycled” PET...