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Adhesives Made from Captured CO2 Emissions

Henkel and Celanese Corporation have announced a partnership to enhance circularity in emulsion production by utilizing carbon...

Nov 72 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 62 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 12 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 171 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...

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 112 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 92 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 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

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 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...

Aug 132 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 71 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 71 min read

MLTA POE Report Covered by PIE

Plastics Information Europe (PIE) did a stellar job of covering the latest update of our global market report for polyolefin elastomers...

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...

Jul 172 min read

Growth Acceleration in Renewables Called for to Meet COP28 Target

The Renewable Energy Statistics 2024 released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) on July 11 this year indicates that...

Jul 102 min read

Lord of the Rings Lightweight Chainmail Transformed into Architectural Plastic Mesh

Born out of the need for lightweight and wearable chainmail for The Lord of the Rings trilogy of films, Kaynemaile (paywall-protected...