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Chemical Management, Products and Technologies

PureCycle Technologies | March 21, 2023

PureCycle Technologies and Mitsui & Co. Ltd. announced a signed heads of agreement (HOA) to develop and operate a polypropylene (PP) recycling plant in Japan. Mitsui is a global trading and investment company with a diversified business portfolio based in Tokyo. In September of 2021, the two sides announced a signed memorandum of understanding. The two sides are targeting completion of a plant in 2026. The first plant is designed to transform PP waste into an ultra-pure recy...

Raw Materials, Market Outlook

businesswire | August 03, 2023

Origin Materials, Inc. the world’s leading carbon negative materials company with a mission to enable the world’s transition to sustainable materials, and Terphane, part of Tredegar Corporation (NYSE:TG), a global leader in specialty PET polyester films (“BOPET”), announced today a strategic partnership to produce sustainable, high-performance bio-polymer films. As part of the partnership, Terphane signed a multi-year capacity reservation agreement to pur...

Norfolk Southern | September 30, 2020

Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC) recognizes 58 chemical customers who earned its 2019 Thoroughbred Chemical Safety Award for safely handling products regulated as hazardous materials. These companies safely shipped at least 1,000 carloads – a combined total of more than 284,000 carloads – over Norfolk Southern's rail network without a single incident in 2019. As common carriers, Norfolk Southern and other U.S. railroads have obligations to provide transportation for companies that ma...

Chemical Management, Products and Technologies

Aramco and TotalEnergie | December 16, 2022

The Saudi Arabian Oil Company and TotalEnergies have taken the final investment decision for the construction of a world scale petrochemical facility in Saudi Arabia. The “Amiral” complex will be owned, operated, and integrated with the existing SATORP refinery located in Jubail on Saudi Arabia’s eastern coast. The investment decision is subject to customary closing conditions and approvals. The petrochemical facility will enable SATORP to convert internally prod...