With the acquisition of a 50% share of start-up company Smart Mold, PP compounder and plastics distributor Sirmax has ‘welcomed’ the spin-off of the University of Padua into the Group,  as Sirmax President and CEO Massimo Pavin phrased it.

Inovyn, since 2015 Ineos’ vinyls producing business,  is participating in a new sustainability project set up to explore options for the sustainable production of methanol at Antwerp, Belgium.

In an internal combustion engine, the camshaft – or in some cases, camshafts  - ensure that the intake and exhaust valves in the camshaft module open and close in synchrony with the movements of the pistons. They are critical to the operation of an engine and can have a significant effect on performance.

The Polyolefin Circular Economy Platform (PCEP), established in February as an international forum for the polyolefin value chain to meet and work to promote the circular economy, has elected a new steering board during its first-ever AGM.

Singapore-based investment management company Circulate Capital has announced that its Circulate Capital Ocean Fund (CCOF), the world’s first fund dedicated to the ocean plastic crisis in South and Southeast Asia, made its inaugural investments in two plastic recycling companies located in India and Indonesia. The investment involved a total amount of US$6 million.

A new report released today by the British Plastics Federation (BPF) entitled Sustainable Design for Plastic Packaging offers a condensed version of the association’s recent sustainable design workshop.

As the economic toll of the coronavirus crisis becomes increasingly evident, concerns that the EU’s ambitious sustainability targets will fall by the wayside have grown.

Efforts to develop more sustainable packaging have resulted in an increasing use of cardboard-plastic combinations, as one way to reduce plastic consumption.  

The 50 Sustainability & Climate Leaders for 2020 project, an international sustainability and climate initiative supported by the United Nations and driven by TBD media group, features 50 leading organisations from the international business community who have demonstrated leadership and the will to take effective action in the fight against climate change.

Waalwijk, the Netherlands-based Stahl, a specialty chemistry company for coatings, processing and treatments, has joined the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB).