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Neste Corp. | November 11, 2020

Neste Corp and LG Chem Ltd.announced their expect to construct a key long haul association to create and develop the biopolymers and biochemicals market all around the world, and all the more explicitly, in LG Chem's home market Korea. On account of the association, LG Chem will begin supplanting fossil feedstock ordinarily utilized in the assembling of polymers and synthetic substances with Neste Renewable Hydrocarbons in the impending months. This encourages LG Chem to creat...

Ohio Environmental Protection Agency | June 23, 2020

A Thailand-based petrochemical company has received an extension from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for for its air permit for a proposed ethane-ethylene cracker plant along the Ohio River in Belmont County. The extension exempts the company from having to do a new analysis to determine whether national air quality standards would be violated. An air quality permit for a proposed multibillion-dollar petrochemical plant in eastern Ohio was set to expire Monday. But in a ...

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Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd. | March 07, 2022

Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd. working to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, announces that it has obtained ISCC PLUS certification from the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification system (ISCC) (*1) for superabsorbent polymers (SAP) made by its subsidiary Nippon Shokubai Europe N.V. (hereinafter NSE) from caustic soda produced using electricity generated from renewable energy. SAP, commonly used in disposable diapers, is mainly made from acrylic acid produced from ...

chemical watch | April 09, 2020

The Mexican health authority's proposal for a hazard-based national chemicals law would conflict with the trade deal agreement it signed with North America, in which countries agreed to move towards risk-based chemicals management systems. Industry groups want the country’s General Health Council (CSG) to amend its policy to align more with the US and Canadian systems – if it moves forward at all. "If any version of the project is agreed, it should be more linked to w...