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Sep 15, 20232 min read
Lummus, RWDC to Accelerate and Scale PHA Production
Technology licensor Lummus Technology, and biopolymer material solutions developer RWDC Industries have signed what’s called a binding...


Aug 18, 20232 min read
Braskem, SCG Confirm Thai Bio-based Polyethylene Project
The companies join forces to advance in a bio-based ethylene project that will deliver feedstock for the production of 200,000...


Jul 27, 20231 min read
New POE Supplier Emerges in Korea
Korea’s Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical has completed construction of a polyolefin elastomer (POE) pilot plant, representing a...


May 9, 20231 min read
Lummus Partners with Texplore to License HDPE Technology
Lummus Technology and SCG Chemicals subsidiary Texplore have entered into a commercial cooperation agreement to license and market Excene...


Mar 28, 20231 min read
Crude-to-chemicals Complex Construction Kicks Off in Korea
Korea's S-OIL has broken ground on the Shaheen project in South Korea. Once complete, the Shaheen complex will include the world’s...


Feb 24, 20231 min read
BASF Targets Efficient Li-ion Battery Recycling
BASF has entered into a long-term collaboration agreement with Tenova Advanced Technologies (TAT) of Yokneam, Israel, for BASF's battery...


Jan 26, 20232 min read
Braskem Taps 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...


Dec 20, 20221 min read
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”...


Jul 15, 20222 min read
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,...


Jul 15, 20222 min read
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...

Jun 28, 20222 min read
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...


Apr 18, 20222 min read
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...


Apr 12, 20221 min read
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...

Apr 11, 20221 min read
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...


Nov 26, 20212 min read
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...


Oct 8, 20211 min read
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...


Sep 20, 20212 min read
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...

Sep 8, 20212 min read
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...


Aug 24, 20211 min read
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...
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