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Chemical Technology

chemicals | December 10, 2020

The UK synthetic compounds industry on Wednesday cautioned again that a no-bargain end to Brexit would harm synthetic substances exchange and venture. In front of what is broadly observed as the basic gathering in post-Brexit exchange talks between UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday night, the Chemical Industries Association (CIA) encouraged the two leaders to conclude and consent to a deregulation arrangement (FTA)....

Chemical Technology

Eastman | January 17, 2022

This morning, French President Emmanuel Macron and Eastman Board Chair and CEO Mark Costa will jointly announce Eastman's plan to invest up to $1 billion in a material-to-material molecular recycling facility in France. This facility would use Eastman's polyester renewal technology to recycle up to 160,000 metric tonnes annually of hard-to-recycle plastic waste that is currently being incinerated. The investment would recycle enough plastic waste annually to fill Stade de ...

Chemical Management

Kraton Corporation & DL Chemical Co., Ltd. | September 27, 2021

Kraton Corporation , a leading global sustainable producer of specialty polymers and high-value bio-based products derived from pine wood pulping co-products, today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement (the "Merger Agreement") pursuant to which DL Chemical Co., Ltd. ("DL Chemical"), a subsidiary of DL Holdings Co., Ltd. (formerly Daelim Industrial Co., Ltd.), will acquire 100% of Kraton in an all-cash transaction implying an enterprise value of app...

Products and Technologies

ICIS | November 26, 2021

With the demand for recycled plastic outstripping supply, ICIS, a global source of Independent Commodity Intelligence Services, has released a new weekly pricing service for Europe, offering benchmarkable price quotes for mixed polyolefin bales, PVC-screened reject bales suitable for RDF, and MRF reject bales. The shortage in supply of monomaterial plastic waste to feed the mechanical recycling market has led to a spike in prices, with the cost of PET, PE and PP at least doubling ...