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Braskem Tap Nexus Circular for Chemically-recycled Feedstocks

Nexus Circular and Braskem have signed a 10-year definitive commercial agreement for the supply of circular feedstocks from a new...

Petron Scientech, Mitsui to Explore Development of Bio-Based Ethylene Infrastructure to Make Bio-PE

Petron Scientech (PSI), a pioneer and leading global licensor of low carbon intensity (CI) and energy efficient “Ethanol to Ethylene”...

Project Air: Swedish Green Chemistry Investment Secures EU Funding

The European Union Innovation Fund has selected Project Air, a unique production facility for sustainable methanol in Stenungsund,...

EU Innovation Fund Bankrolls Neste Advanced Recycling Project in Porvoo

Neste has received a positive grant decision for up to €135 million from the EU Innovation Fund for the its project to establish chemical...

Shell and Dow Start Up E-Cracking Furnace Experimental Unit

Milestone demonstrates significant step toward decarbonising a critical petrochemical manufacturing process. The e-cracking furnace...

Sumitomo exits caprolactam business as it eyes more profitable, sustainable businesses

Sumitomo Chemical’s April 15 announcement that it will be exiting the caprolactam business, closing down the 85,000-tonnes/year polyamide...

Sumitomo Chemical Completes Bio-ethylene Pilot Plant

Japan's Sumitomo Chemical has finished constructing a pilot facility in Chiba Prefecture for producing ethylene from ethanol and plans to...

Repsol Takes Stake in Waste-to-renewable Fuels and Chemicals Firm Enerkem

Repsol has acquired a minority stake in the Canadian company Enerkem, a technological world leader in the production of renewable fuels...

Styrene-Butadiene Rubber from Plastic Waste Plastic

Asahi Kasei has teamed up with Shell to source feedstock derived from waste plastic to manufacture sustainable solution-polymerized...

Clariant, Linde unveil groundbreaking ethylene catalysts

Clariant Catalysts has teamed up with Linde Engineering to develop new catalysts for the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane (ODH-E), an...

Korea is really going green

The spate of green-tinged announcements from South Korea's petrochemical sector continues. Following on from its rebranding, SK Geo...

US, South African Researchers in Separate Efforts to Develop CO2 Utilization Technologies

A team of researchers from Sasol and the Catalysis Institute at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa has made advancements...

AI and ML set to optimize plant operational efficiencies

#bigdataanalytics and #AI technologies are set to play key enabling roles in process industries through optimizing systems and improving...