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Chemical Management

NW Natura | July 28, 2022

NW Natural, a 163-year-old gas utility based in Portland, announced a partnership with Washington-based Modern Electron to create clean hydrogen directly from natural gas and blend it into its existing natural gas distribution network. The innovative technology process known as concurrent combustion methane pyrolysis is designed to produce clean hydrogen and solid carbon using only natural gas and air as inputs – and does not require any electricity, water, or consumable cat...

Raw Materials

Kraton | October 04, 2021

Kraton Corporation (NYSE: KRA), a leading global sustainable producer of specialty polymers and high-value biobased products derived from pine wood pulping co-products, is proud to partner with Plastship by offering CirKular+™ performance enhancement and compatibilization additives on Plastship Additives Selector platform. Plastship, a leading European platform for recyclate procurement, is a subsidiary of RIGK GmbH, a German recycling scheme operator with more than 25...

Chemical Engineering | February 17, 2020

Versalis signed a joint development agreement with Italian engineering company, Servizi di Ricerche e Sviluppo (S.R.S.), which owns a pyrolysis technology that will be further developed to transform mixed plastic waste, which cannot be mechanically recycled, into raw material to produce new virgin polymers. Versalis will leverage its technological and industrial expertise to build a first plant with a capacity of 6,000 tons per year at its Mantova. Italy site, with a view to progressively...

EHS Daily Advisor | April 03, 2020

According to the EPA, the Agency’s final rule amending the Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) requirements under Section 8(a) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) has three primary objectives. Make regulatory updates that align with new statutory requirements contained in the 2016 TSCA Amendments. Improve the CDR data collected to support the implementation of TSCA. Reduce the burden for certain CDR reporters. “In addition, these regulatory modifications may result in additio...