CONTECH CONTROL SERVICES

Recycling International | January 23, 2020

Plastics recycling pioneer Pyrowave is one of 14 Canadian tech companies to benefit from a total of EUR 32 million from a government foundation backing innovative clean technologies. Pyrowave will receive over EUR 3.7 million, according to Navdeep Bains, Canadian minister of innovation, science and economic development. The ‘strategic investment’ comes from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) to enhance the company’s chemical plastic-to-plastic recycling process. P...

Prnewswire | May 21, 2020

Demand for some of the major polymers and petrochemicals have taken a hit with numerous countries under lockdown. Specialty chemicals used by automobile and construction industries will continue to witness a huge demand drop.

Bloomberg Environment | February 26, 2020

Philadelphia leaders hope their attempt to ban hydrogen fluoride from oil refinery processes within city limits will spark other regulation of the chemical compound across the country. The city’s proposal comes after a fire and explosion at Philadelphia Energy Solutions’ Girard Point Refinery in June 2019, where 5,000 pounds of toxic hydrofluoric acid—a mixture of hydrogen fluoride (HF) and water—was released. No workers or residents were hurt, though the company has sinc...

Coatings World | April 07, 2020

Electrolysis technologies provide an opportunity for the chemical sector to decarbonize its supply chain and use renewable electricity as an alternative to oil and gas feedstock. While many forecasts show that oil and gas will continue to dominate in the chemical sector, Lux Research’s new report, “Electrifying Chemicals: The Cost of Producing Chemicals from Electricity,” predicts that emerging power-to-chemicals technologies will disrupt those figures and provide a new route o...