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Chemical Technology

I.C.I.S | May 13, 2021

LyondellBasell plans to significantly expand its global presence in both mechanical and molecular (chemical) recycling of waste plastics, with the United States, China, and ultimately India as the next priorities, according to its CEO on Tuesday. LyondellBasell and SUEZ extended their Quality Circular Plastics (QCP) joint venture focusing on mechanical recycling in December 2020 with the acquisition of Belgium-based plastics recycling firm TIVACO, increasing the overall ability fo...

Chemical Management

Element Solutions Inc, Coventya | June 14, 2021

Element Solutions Inc., a global and diversified specialty chemicals company, announced today that it had made a binding offer to acquire Coventya Holding SAS, a global provider of specialty chemicals for the surface finishing industry. Under the terms of the offer, Element Solutions will pay approximately €420 million in cash, including the assumption or repayment of the debt, subject to certain adjustments. The transaction is expected to close in late Q3 or Q4 2021, subject to receipt of ...

WHYY | January 29, 2020

Philadelphia and Pennsylvania sued the Environmental Protection Protection Agency Wednesday in a challenge to the agency’s rollback of an Obama-era chemical safety rule related to industrial facilities like the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery complex. The city and state joined 13 other states and the District of Columbia in a federal lawsuit that says the new rules violate the Clean Air Act. Patrick O’Neill, divisional deputy for environmental law for the city, said the EPA wa...

Chemical Technology, Market Outlook

Globenewswire | July 13, 2023

Technip Energies and LanzaTech Global, Inc. signed a Joint Collaboration Agreement to create a new pathway to sustainable ethylene utilizing their combined technologies. Together LanzaTech’s carbon capture and utilization technology with Technip Energies’ Hummingbird® technology transform waste carbon into ethylene, the most common building block in petrochemicals. Ethylene is a building block for thousands of chemicals and materials, including plastics, detergen...