Lorenz develops lightweight bio-based thermoset based on regional raw materials

For California-based Ship & Shore Environmental, Inc, a specialist provider of pollution abatement solutions, the year 2020 was not the disaster it was for many others.

Plants that make PHA - if it is up to Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. an agricultural bioscience company, this is the future. The company has now announced successful field testing of prototype lines of the oilseed Camelina sativa that have been programmed to produce PHA bioplastics directly in seed.

In line with RadiciGroup’s conviction that active engagement in a wide range of international efforts and initiative is a key part of achieving sustainable innovation, the Group’s High Performance Polymers business unit has now joined Pinfa, the Phosphorus, Inorganic and Nitrogen Flame Retardants Association in Europe.

With the introduction of its “LNP Colorcomp WQ117945” compound, a material based on advanced nanotechnology, Sabic can successfully enhance both the performance and the sustainability of today’s PET foams.

Ineos has donated £100 million (€112,25 million) to the University of Oxford to set up and equip a new, world-leading institute to conduct research into the growing global issue of antimicrobial resistance, or AMR as it is called.

UK-based recycling technology company Itero will build its first demonstration plant for recycling plastic waste at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Sittard-Geleen, the Netherlands, the company has announced.

Lightweight composites are a key element for the development of electric vehicles and sustainable transport solutions.

Materials firm Avient Corp. will complete an expansion in February at a colour concentrates plant in Vietnam.

Amcor has become the first global diversified packaging company to report to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) packaging standard.

The new packaging solutions developed by packaging specialist Mondi for German pet food producer Interquell, feature a design that successfully combines both consumer convenience and sustainability benefits.