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Richman Chemica, The Coretec Group | November 17, 2021

The Coretec Group, Inc., developers of engineered silicon and 3D volumetric displays, has entered into an agreement with Richman Chemical Inc. (RCI) to supply The Coretec Group’s Cyclohexasilane (CHS) to North American customers. Due to increasing supply chain difficulties and overseas shipping delays due to the COVID19 pandemic, it was important that The Coretec Group work with a US company to supply our North American partners with CHS. On November 15th, The Coretec Group ...

Chemicalwatch | June 03, 2020

A stronger regulatory framework that sets "high standards and predictable rules" is vital in order to facilitate a full switch to safer chemicals in the EU, a director from the European Commission has said. Speaking at Echa’s virtual Safer Chemicals Conference yesterday, Kestutis Sadauskas, director of circular economy and green growth at DG Environment, said: "Europe has the scientific and technical capacity to lead the transition to safe chemicals and non-chemical alternat...

Resource Recycling | March 05, 2020

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation has purchased two European plastics recycling companies focusing on engineered plastics, bringing supply of these recycled resins in-house. The Tokyo-headquartered chemical firm last week announced it would acquire Swiss recycling firms Minger Kunststofftechnik AG and Minger Plastic AG. The deal was slated to close by the end of February. In its announcement, Mitsubishi described the acquisition as part of its plan to implement a variety of sustainability initiati...

Energy Live News | March 30, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DoE) has announced up to $25 million (£20.5m) in funding as part of the Plastics Innovation Challenge. The Advanced Manufacturing Office and the Bioenergy Technologies Office jointly released the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) that aims to support recyclable plastic research and development (R&D) and study how to break existing plastics into chemical building blocks that can be used to make higher-value products. Under-Secretary of Energy, Mark W. M...