Clariant has completed a collaborative pilot-scale project with polyolefins supplier Borealis, and Sintef, one of Europe's largest independent research organizations. that proved Clariant’s upgrading technology was capable of converting pyrolysis oil (pyoil) derived from plastic waste to steam cracker-compatible feedstock that fully meets cracker-grade quality specifications. Using Clariant's proprietary HDMax catalysts, the pilot-scale testing conducted at Sintef’s research facility in...

HydroGraph Clean Power Inc. has announced that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has in principle approved the manufacture, processing, distribution, use, and disposal in the United States of its Fractal Graphene. The carbon-based product, engineered for performance at ultra-low loadings significantly improves tensile strength, modulus, and toughness in plastic composites, enhancing mechanical performance by 20% to 70% while maintaining processability compared to...

New Zealand e-waste recycler Mint Innovation has successfully produced the industry’s first batch of certified closed loop recycled copper through an industry-first collaboration with HP Inc. The milestone demonstrates Mint’s proprietary biosorption technology, which recovers high-purity copper from HP’s end-of-life printed circuit boards (PCBs) for reuse in HP PC manufacturing starting with the HP EliteBook X G2 Series laptops and HP EliteBoard G1a Next Gen AI PC.  The announcement comes as...