Materials
Materials
Houston, Texas – Orion Engineered Carbons SA has formed a partnership with RISE Research Institutes of Sweden to develop and produce renewable carbon black.
In 2019, the DuPont Mobility & Materials production facility at Dordrecht, the Netherlands, was the first DuPont manufacturing site to receive ISCC certification - and was the first POM plant worldwide to be certified.
Royal DSM and chemical major Sabic have joined forces to demonstrate the use of mixed recycled plastic waste to produce DSM’s ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMwPE) Dyneema material via the mass balance approach.
Said to be the world’s only continuous-filament cellulose non-woven, Bemiese, produced by Asahi Kasei from cotton linter, has further enhanced its sustainability credentials with its recent certification as OK biodegradable MARINE by TÜV AUSTRIA Belgium.
While still recovering from the impact of the pandemic, since January 2021 the plastics processing sector has been facing a new challenge: raw material shortages and concomitant price increases.
Repsol has announced that it is expanding its industrial complex in Sines (Portugal) with the construction of two new polyolefin production plants.
Benvic has announced that the acquisition, first disclosed in January 2021, of the compounding facilities owned by Celanese in Ferrara, Italy has now been successfully concluded.
French sports and outdoor retailer, Decathlon, has chosen a solution based on recycled materials for the production of its new portable beach volleyball stand.
With only 9 percent of plastics in the U.S. getting recycled, a Congressional science panel took a look at technological innovations that could help.
Sometimes, the name says it all. The latest family of bike panniers from outdoor equipment maker Vaude are the brand’s first - and the first on the market in general – in which all the key materials are made from recycled products.
Eastman Chemical Co. is working with technology firm SAP SE on a project that would allow certified recycled content to be traced across the value chain.
Petrochemical major Sibur has developed and launched a new product family under the brand name Vivilen.
The resin maker already is receiving material from Braven's plant in North Carolina, produced from difficult-to-recycle mixed plastics.
SK Capital Partners and Heubach Group have acquired the pigments business of Clariant AG, which makes materials used in many plastic products.