LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and KIRKBI A/S, the family-owned holding and investment company of the LEGO brand, announce they have signed an agreement to make an investment in APK Group, which specializes in a unique solvent-based recycling technology…
Coolbrook Oy (Helsinki, Finland) and Braskem S.A. (São Paulo, Brazil) have announced the signing of a cooperation agreement. As part of its commitment to implementing new technologies and solutions that drive sustainable development and, especially, combat climate change, Coolbrook and…
Sasol Chemicals will deliver a first fill of its latest Fischer-Tropsch (FT) catalyst free of charge to Ineratec, in one of several recent commitments to promising renewable projects. The FT catalyst will be used in the lighthouse project the Karlsruhe-based…
Saint-Gobain North America, through its building products subsidiary CertainTeed Roofing, has acquired the rights to technology from recycling partner Asphaltica that will allow the company to recycle asphalt shingle waste, diverting it from landfill and furthering the company’s commitment to…
NatureWorks LLC (Minnetonka, Minn.) hosted a cornerstone laying ceremony to celebrate construction of their new Ingeo PLA manufacturing complex in Thailand. The ceremony commemorated the progress made to date on the new fully integrated biopolymer facility. The day also featured…
Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan, Italy) announces that its subsidiary NextChem has been awarded a Feasibility Study by Foresight Group for a carbon capture and sustainable methanol synthesis plant in the ETA Manfredonia waste-to-energy plant in Puglia, a Southeastern Italian region. Upon completion of the Feasibility Study, the successful…
UPM Biochemicals and HAERTOL Chemie GmbH announced a development partnership that will accelerate the introduction of renewable, sustainable forest-sourced materials into the automotive market and reduce fossil resource consumption. UPM Biochemicals and HAERTOL, both headquartered in Germany, have agreed to…
Nippon Paper Industries Co., (Tokyo), Sumitomo Corp. (Tokyo) and Green Earth Institute Co. (Tokyo) agreed to begin trilateral consideration of the first commercial production of cellulosic bioethanol from woody biomass in Japan and its development into bio-chemical products. Bioethanol is…
Toray Industries, Inc. (Tokyo) and Idemitsu Kosan Co. (Tokyo) announced that they have agreed to build a supply chain for plastics made from biomass naphtha. They would manufacture biomass styrene monomer derived from biomass naphtha and acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS)…
RWE , Lotte Chemical Corp. and Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) have formed a strategic alliance to jointly develop stable and large-scale clean ammonia (green and blue ammonia) supply chains in Asia, Europe and the US. Within this alliance RWE, Lotte, and…