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S&P Global | April 07, 2020

Following are key facts about the unprecedented challenges and uncertainty faced by the European petrochemical industry due to the coronavirus pandemic and government restrictions on movement in an attempt to limit its spread. As supply-chain concerns in Europe continue to rise, market players will be faced with the prospect of cutting rates regardless of margins. Talks of end product production closures are expected to feedback into feedstock petrochemicals in the coming months. "Europe cu...

Technology networks | May 21, 2020

A faster, more efficient way of recycling plant-based “bioplastics” has been developed by a team of scientists at the Universities of Birmingham and Bath. The team has shown how their chemical recycling method not only speeds up the process, it can also be converted into a new product – a biodegradable solvent – which can be sold for use in a wide variety of industries including cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. Bioplastics, made from polylactic acid (PLA), are becomin...

CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY

Agilyx Patent | September 14, 2021

Agilyx Corporation , a wholly owned subsidiary of Agilyx AS (Euronext Growth (Oslo): and a pioneer in the chemical recycling of post-use plastics has been granted a patent continuation for its process of breaking down waste polystyrene into its chemical building block, styrene monomer. The continuation of US patent number 11,041,123 further confirms Agilyx's depolymerization technology extends to the breaking down of all waste plastic polymers into their respective discrete monomers an...

RAW MATERIALS

Kraton | October 04, 2021

Kraton Corporation (NYSE: KRA), a leading global sustainable producer of specialty polymers and high-value biobased products derived from pine wood pulping co-products, is proud to partner with Plastship by offering CirKular+™ performance enhancement and compatibilization additives on Plastship Additives Selector platform. Plastship, a leading European platform for recyclate procurement, is a subsidiary of RIGK GmbH, a German recycling scheme operator with more than 25...