Materials

sustainability

Arizona is 12th State to Support Advanced Plastics Recycling

Arizona has enacted legislation that will enable greater adoption of advanced recycling.  

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Biopolymers

Total Corbion PLA in Engineering Stage for new PLA Plant in Europe

The 50/50 joint venture between Total and Corbion has kicked off the front-end engineering design stage for its new 200-million lb/yr PLA plant in Grandpuits, France.

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Dow Partners with Mura Technology to Scale Game-Changing Advanced Plastics Recycling Technology

Dow’s collaboration to speed up development of Mura’s pioneering Hydro PRS technology that can recycle all forms of plastics.

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Biopolymers

Eight Startups Aim to Tackle Plastic Pollution

Rethinking Materials summit includes startups approaching issue through bioplastics and others through circular technologies.

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Indorama Launches Carbon Neutral PET

The Deja sustainable brand PET portfolio from Indorama now includes carbon neutral PET grades.

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Polykemi Invests in its Own U.S. Compounding Plant

Gastonia, N.C. is the location for Polykemi’s plant which could start production of compounds as early as 2022.

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BASF Issues Price Increases for Caprolactam, Nylon 6 & Copolymer

Increases reflect tight supply and increased demand.

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Ineos Styrolution, Recycling Technologies and Trinseo Reach Milestone in Plans to Build Commercial PS Recycling Plants

Pilot plant to be built next year in the U.K. using Recycling Technologies’ depolymerization solution.

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Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Cellophane

How—and when—cellulose-based chemistry led to the discovery of cellophane.  

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Ultra-Light TPE Composites for Footwear

Xenia’s new Xelight composites are based on Arkema’s Pebax TPE

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