Lloyd’s Register (LR; London; www.lr.org) has joined the 3R Initiative to help its members develop a new ‘Project Standard’ designed to tackle the global issue of plastic waste. The 3R (Reduce, Recover and Recycle) Initiative was founded in 2019 by…
Royal DSM N.V. (Heerlen, the Netherlands; www.dsm.com) is expanding the capacity of its high-performance materials compounding plant in Evansville, Indiana. With the investment, DSM will enhance the site to produce the next generation of advanced materials, including polyamides and bio-based…
Vow ASA (Lysaker, Norway; www.vowasa.com), through its subsidiary ETIA, has been awarded a contract to provide a pyrolysis testing unit for processing of waste plastics and polymers for Unipetrol in the Czech Republic. Unipetrol is a part of PKN ORLEN group,…
Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC; Tokyo; www.m-chemical.co.jp) will acquire two Swiss engineering plastics recyclers, Minger Kunststofftechnik AG and Minger Plastic AG (collectively, the Minger Group, headquartered in Appenzell, Switzerland), through its group company Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials (MCAM; Head office: Zurich,…
Avantium (Amsterdam, the Netherlands; www.avantium.com) has sold its bioaromatics patent portfolio to The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO). The sale includes both patents and know-how for technologies that produce bio-derived products for polymers and coatings. These technologies lie…
Invista (Wichita, Kan.; www.invista.com) has announced its continues progress on a planned 400,000-ton adiponitrile (ADN) plant at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP). This $1.2 billion USD (8.4 billion RMB) investment will help meet the growing demand for nylon 6,6…
Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa; www.airproducts.com) announced that Air Products Qudra, a joint venture (JV) between Air Products and Qudra Energy, in collaboration with the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu, held a ceremonial groundbreaking to mark the start of…
Collaboration partners Yara International ASA (Oslo, Norway; www.yara.com) and ENGIE have received $995,000 in funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) towards their feasibility study, which is examining the potential to make renewable hydrogen technology work in industrial-scale facilities.…
Vinnolit GmbH & Co. KG (Ismaning, Germany; www.vinnolit.com/) has successfully commissioned its plant expansion for the production of paste PVC at its Burghausen, Germany site using its leading microsuspension technology. "In Burghausen, we are now additionally producing with the microsuspension…
OCI Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea; www.oci.co.kr) and POSCO Chemical (Pohang-si, South, Korea; www.posco.com) signed a joint agreement to produce electronic-grade and industrial hydrogen peroxide using coke oven gas (COG), a byproduct of steelmaking processes The joint venture (JV) is…