Ascensus Specialties

Thenextweb | April 26, 2020

The world is drowning in plastic. About 60% of the more than 8,700 million metric tonnes of plastic ever made is no longer in use, instead sat mostly in landfill or released to the environment. That equals over 400kg of plastic waste for every one of the 7.6 billion people on the planet. One reason for this is that many plastics are not recyclable in our current system. And even those that are recyclable still go to landfill eventually. Plastics cannot be recycled infinitely, at least not using ...

Chemical Technology

Argus | August 12, 2021

Energy and commodity price reporting agency Argus has acquired Oleochem Analytics, a provider of renewable chemicals market information. Oleochem Analytics produces price assessments, market intelligence, news, and analytics for the global oleochemical and pine chemical markets. With subject matter experts in Europe, the US, Brazil and China — who collectively have decades of market expertise — Oleochem Analytics is the leading information source on high-growth renewab...

Chemical Technology

Honeywell | February 21, 2022

Honeywell and TotalEnergies announced a strategic agreement to promote the development of advanced plastic recycling. Under this agreement, Honeywell will agree to supply TotalEnergies with recycled polymer feedstock (RPF) using Honeywell's UpCycle Process Technology at the recently announced Honeywell and Sacyr advanced recycling plant, intended to be built in Andalucía, Spain. TotalEnergies will purchase and convert this raw material into virgin-quality polymers, which could be used...

Products and Technologies

Unifrax, Clearlake | April 22, 2021

Unifrax, the main maker of elite strength materials, today presented FlexCat™ by Unifrax, another high-surface territory adaptable media intended to give improved impetus viability expanded yield utilizing less crude materials. For use in power modules, strength gas creation, compound handling, air refinement, and different applications, FlexCat offers catalyzers and modern accomplices better execution, significant expense investment funds, and improved wellbeing for workers. ...