Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, Mass.) announced it is investing more than $140 million to further expand its laboratory plastics consumables production to support significant global demand for COVID-19 testing, as well as development and manufacturing of therapies and vaccines. "Early…
ALPLA Group (Hard, Austria) is building a plant in Mexico for recycling high-density polyethylene (HDPE). It is planned to produce 15,000 metric tons per year (m.t./yr) of post-consumer recycled material. ALPLA has acquired a property in Toluca, capital city of…
thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions AG (Essen, Germany) recently won another order to build a bioplastics plant based on the patented PLAneo technology. It will be built in South China and will produce 30,000 tons/yr of polylactide (PLA). PLA is a compostable…
ANDRITZ Separation was among the first to introduce fluidized bed technology for use in industrial drying – a drying method achieving the requested polymer product quality in an efficient process. Petrochemical and polymer producers have installed more than 1,000 of…
Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland) today announced the construction of a new state-of-the-art catalyst production site in China. This project represents a significant investment which further strengthens Clariant’s position in China and enhances its ability to support its customers in the country’s…
PPG (Pittsburgh, Pa.) announced it has received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for research into the use of two versatile, high-output processes in the production of lithium-ion battery (LIB) electrodes. The three-year, $2.2 million project – one…
The preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) for July 2020 (the most recent available) increased compared to the previous month’s value, reversing a three-month period of decline. a similar decline prior to July. Three of the four…
Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL), a leading Indian Refining company based in Mangalore, is planning to install a second generation (2G) ethanol facility in the State of Karnataka, India. MRPL has awarded LanzaTech (Skokie, Ill.) the contract to commence…
INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany) and Trinseo (Berwyn, Pa.) are advancing plans to build the first-of-its-kind polystyrene recycling plant based on depolymerization in Wingles in the north of France. The planned full commercial-scale recycling facility will be capable of processing up…
The Polyplastics Group (Tokyo) has announced plans to construct a cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) production facility in Leuna, Germany to meet the growing global demand for its Topas COC polymers. The new plant, to be operated by local Polyplastics subsidiary…