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Braskem Opens Renewable Innovation Center in U.S.

Braskem, the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas, as well as a market leader and pioneer producer of biopolymers on an...

LanzaTech Licenses Waste-to-Ethanol Process in Japan

LanzaTech Global has signed a master license agreement with Sekisui Chemical to deploy at commercial scale a jointly developed platform...

Carbon Emissions Converted to Plastics

eFuels leader Infinium and Borealis, a leading supplier of advanced and sustainable plastic solutions, have entered into an agreement to...

Shell Pulls Back on Advanced Recycling

Shell's 2023 sustainability report came out in March but is only now that reports are emerging regarding the oil major's inability to...

SCG, Toyo to Jointly Develop Chemical Recycling Technology

SCG Chemicals affiliate Circular Plas and Japan's Toyo Engineering are collaborating to expand capacity and business opportunities for...

Microparticles From Road Tires are “High Concern” Pollutants, Research Shows

The word is starting to get out. Plastic microparticles released into the environment from common road tires should be treated as a “high...

SK Geo Centric Plans Second Pyrolysis Plant

SK Geo Centric is joining forces with Plastic Energy, the UK-based plastic pyrolysis specialist, to construct a waste plastic pyrolysis...

Neste to Enable bio-based PET Bottles Production

Neste has entered into a partnership with beverage manufacturer Suntory, petrochemicals player ENEOS and and trading house Mitsubishi...

Mitsui Chemicals' Carbon Neutral Vision for Osaka

Methane is currently used to fuel crackers that pyrolyze naphtha at temperatures in the region of 850°C. Under Mitsui Chemicals' vision,...

AI Transforms Social Media Posts into Chemical Sales Opportunities

Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. and IBM Japan have applied artificial intelligence (AI) to identify business opportunities in the chemical...