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A project from Ips Intelligent Pelletizing Solutions, conducted in collaboration with Cetex Institute for Textile and Processing Machines at the Technical University of Chemnitz, has resulted in the development of a pelletising system offering a more efficient manufacturing technology for long-fibre reinforced polymer pellets.
Close collaboration, innovative solutions and far-reaching protective measures are all making it possible for Novamont Group to remain open and fully operational, the company reports.
The highly ambitious Polimery Police project in Poland has come another step closer to realisation now that the management board of Grupa Azoty Polyolefins S.A. has signed the commitment letters with a group of 11 Polish and international financial institutions, confirming the submission of debt offers for the “Polimery Police” project.
A new Norwegian initiative to clean up the countries beaches and seas aims to give value to what it has identified as 100% ownerless ocean plastic.
Having committed to the circular economy, Repsol is now steadily and methodically pursuing its sustainability goals. In 2019, Repsol obtained ISCC plus certification for its Puertollano industrial complex, allowing the company to launch not only its first circular polyolefins by the end of that year, but also other products, such as circular styrene, polyols, and glycols.
Swiss masterbatch producer Sukano has announced that its Sukano NIR-Black detectable masterbatch been certified according to the Cotrep recyclability test protocol and will be featured in the Citeo positive list.
Amaplast says its members are seeing shipping delays to Europe.
Avantium has sold its bioaromatics patent portfolio to The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, TNO.
Despite declining sales and a halved net profit for the fourth quarter of 2019, Covestro achieved its targets, said CEO Markus Steilemann. “We have a solid financial base,” he stressed, speaking at the annual financial press conference in Düsseldorf 19 February.
Barcelona-based Kompuestos, a producer of sustainable compounds for plastics has announced the appointment of two new proprietary directors. The new members of the board of directors are Gant Finance, SA and Gestión y Administracion Mobiliaria S.A, represented by Luis Vázquez and Santiago de Gomar Roca respectively.
EuPC – the EU-level trade association of European plastics converters - has announced the results of its latest survey on the use of recycled polymers by plastics converting companies in Europe.
Leading global graphene nanotube manufacturer OCSiAl, who has developed the world's only scalable technology for the industrial synthesis of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNT), has built and launched a second production facility that expands its production capacity to 75 tonnes a year.
Ineos Olefins & Polymers has partnered with Italy-based polymer recycler Forever Plast SpA on the development of a range of new polyethylene grades made with a blend of post-consumer recyclate derived from used bottle caps, and virgin materials.