All Chemical recycling articles – Page 2
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ArticleA roundup of the Sustainable Packaging Summit 2023
As the dust settles after the Sustainable Packaging Summit 2023, we’re casting our eye over the highlights of this year’s event. Our 95 speakers and 650 attendees offered a range of perspectives from across the value chain and an array of global regions, bringing with them a plethora of discussion points to take into the new year.
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ArticleLyondellBasell to turn plastic waste into feedstock at upcoming advanced recycling plant
LyondellBasell has made a final investment decision to build an industrial-scale catalytic advanced recycling demonstration plant for its proprietary MoReTec technology – set to convert 50,000 tonnes of post-consumer plastic waste into feedstock every year.
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ArticleOMV and Interzero enter joint venture to build ‘Europe’s largest’ chemical recycling sorting facility
OMV will invest over €170 million into a state-of-the-art, fully automatic sorting plant developed by Interzero to produce feedstock for chemical recycling with an expected annual capacity of up to 260,000 tonnes.
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ArticleLyondellBasell pursues higher plastic recycling rate with 25% acquisition of Cyclyx
LyondellBasell has acquired 25% equity ownership of Cyclyx International, a joint venture between Agilyx and ExxonMobil, in what is hoped to be a step towards improved recycling and a circular economy for plastics in the United States.
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ArticleMura Technology opens advanced recycling facility for ‘unrecyclable’ plastics
Mura Technology is opening its first commercial-scale HydroPRS advanced plastic recycling plant in Teesside, UK, processing ‘unrecyclable’ flexible and rigid mixed plastics into recycled hydrocarbon feedstocks for repeated plastic production.
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ArticleMass balance fuel-use exempt necessary to scale up chemical recycling, says plastics supply chain
Twenty associations from across the plastics supply chain – including EuPC, CEFLEX, EUROPEN, and Der Grüne Punkt – have signed a letter calling upon EU Member States to utilize mass balance fuel-use exempt in a harmonized mass balance approach for allocating chemically recycled content.
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ArticleCertified circular EVA copolymers unveiled by Repsol
Repsol has revealed its range of ISCC PLUS certified circular EVA copolymers – reportedly the first of their kind on the market – and aims to help establish a circular economy for polyolefins, alongside lowering its own virgin raw material consumption.
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ArticleItero Technologies and Brightlands Chemelot Campus join forces to build pyrolysis plant
Itero Technologies has signed a commercial realisation agreement with Brightlands Chemelot Campus to build a chemical recycling plant anticipated to recycle 27kT of plastic waste every year.
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ArticleAustralia’s ‘first’ infinite recycling R&D facility announced by Samsara Eco
Samsara Eco will open what is claimed to be Australia’s first infinite recycling research and development facility, where the start-up hopes to expand its enzymatic library and pursue its goal of recycling 1.5 million tonnes of plastic a year by 2030.
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ArticlePlastic Packaging Tax – why we can’t seem to find the right balance
Following the UK Government launching a new consultation on the Plastic Packaging Tax, Zoe Brimelow, director at packaging manufacturer and consultancy Duo, asks: are we looking in the right places and debating the correct priorities when it comes to plastic packaging and sustainability?
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ArticleErema and Lindner pursue streamlined plastics recycling process with new holding company
Erema Group and Lindner Holding have jointly founded holding company BLUEONE Solutions in the hopes of combining their expertise in research projects to create industrial standards for plastics recycling.
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ArticleCollaborative pilot testing works towards film-to-film recycling for printed flexible BOPP
Toppan, Mitsui Chemicals Tohcello, and Mitsui Chemicals are piloting the horizontal recycling of printed BOPP film back into new flexible packaging film in a bid to scale up the relevant technologies and operational infrastructure and facilitate network growth in the flexible packaging materials industry.
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ArticleAramco, TotalEnergies and SABIC generate certified circular polymers from plastic waste-derived oil
Aramco, TotalEnergies, and SABIC have converted oil derived from plastic waste into ISCC+ certified circular polymers in the hopes of creating a domestic value chain for the advanced recycling of plastics into circular polymers in Saudi Arabia.
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Article‘First-of-a-kind’ plant to aim for 40,000-ton rPET output by depolymerising plastic waste
gr3n and Intecsa Industrial are entering a joint venture to build a ‘first-of-a-kind’ manufacturing facility for the microwave-assisted depolymerisation of PET – aspiring to produce 40,000 tons of recycled PET a year by 2027.
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ArticleThe role of chemical recycling in sustainable product design: how can we design for circularity?
Are existing ‘Design for Recycling’ guidelines doing enough to cut down on plastic packaging waste? Dr. Abi Mountain, head of Product and Partnerships at Itero Technologies, presents an alternative idea – designing for circularity, in which the industry would embrace chemical recycling as a complementary technology and create a closed loop for plastic materials.
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ArticleSyclus constructing Dutch ethanol-to-ethylene plant with Axens technology
Syclus is building what claims to be the first ethanol-to-ethylene production plant in Europe in Geleen, The Netherlands, with a predicted annual capacity of around 100,000 tonnes. The plant is set to enable a more sustainable production process for plastics.
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ArticleBorealis to acquire Rialti S.p.A, a European producer of recycled polypropylene compounds
Borealis has announced the signing of an agreement to acquire Rialti, a producer of mechanically recycled polypropylene (PP) compounds for injection moulding and extrusion.
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ArticleBASF Venture Capital invests in chemical recycling startup DePoly SA
BASF Venture Capital GmbH (BVC), the corporate venture company of the BASF Group has announced an investment in the Swiss startup DePoly SA (DePoly), a plastic solutions provider developing chemical recycling technology.
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ArticleNeste invests in upgraded plastic waste-to-feedstock process at Finnish facility
Neste has made a $111 million investment to upgrade its refinery in Porvoo in an effort to recycle 150,000 tons of liquefied plastic waste into petrochemical feedstock every year.
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ArticleNestlé Mexico and Greenback use Enval technology to generate pyrolytic oil from plastic waste
Nestlé Mexico and Greenback Recycling Technologies are utilising Enval Limited’s advanced recycling technology to turn hard-to-recycle plastics into pyrolytic oil at a newly-opened recycling plant.