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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

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...
Nov 1, 20242 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


Plastic Chemicals Report: >90% of Quantity Cited Probably Used in Non-Plastics Applications
The latest fearmongering report about plastics is out and it's a whopper! The PlastChem report runs to 181 pages and comes with a...
Mar 15, 20242 min read


Plastics added $250 billion to U.S. health costs in 2018?
In 2018 global plastics production was valued at $712 billion according to Statistica. Let's conservatively assume that the U.S....
Jan 16, 20242 min read

Nanofiber Reinforces Rubber Tires, Hoses, Belts
Teijin Frontier has developed an eco-friendly staple polyester nanofiber that offers excellent performance to reinforce rubber uses in...
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

Plastics is the new coal? Really?
An interesting report from Beyond Plastics appeared on our computer screens recently espousing plastics as the new coal in terms of...
Oct 28, 20213 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
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