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Policy and Perspectives, Products and Technologies

Techmer PM | February 14, 2023

Techmer PM, a Clinton-based compounder and materials design expert, has developed a solution to the recycled PET (rPET) shortage. This new concentrate, known as HiTerra™ rPET Revive, rebuilds the polymer chains of the resin, therefore boosting its viscosity and decreasing the consequent yellowness of rPET. To meet their publicly declared environmental objectives, brand owners are dedicated to growing their usage of recycled plastics but face more than simply technical obst...

Chemical Management

Aemetis, Inc. | April 05, 2022

Aemetis, Inc. a renewable fuels company focused on negative carbon intensity products announced the acquisition of an 8.5-acre property on Faith Home Road for $2 million, located approximately 1/4 mile from the Aemetis Keyes renewable ethanol plant. The corner property is a strategic location for operations supporting the company’s Carbon Zero projects, including dairy renewable natural gas and carbon capture and sequestration. Sited adjacent to the existing Aemetis biogas p...

U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, Airgas | July 31, 2020

The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board issued two significant reports in late July. One praises voluntary actions of Airgas after a deadly incident at a nitrous oxide facility. The second is a factual update to the ongoing investigation of an incident at an Aghorn Operating facility in Texas in which a worker and his wife died from exposure to toxic hydrogen sulfide gas. The CSB is an independent, nonregulatory federal agency that investigates chemical accidents. In...

Products and Technologies

ICIS | November 26, 2021

With the demand for recycled plastic outstripping supply, ICIS, a global source of Independent Commodity Intelligence Services, has released a new weekly pricing service for Europe, offering benchmarkable price quotes for mixed polyolefin bales, PVC-screened reject bales suitable for RDF, and MRF reject bales. The shortage in supply of monomaterial plastic waste to feed the mechanical recycling market has led to a spike in prices, with the cost of PET, PE and PP at least doubling ...