Plastic

Neste of Finland Commissions World's Largest Liquefied Waste Plastic Upgrading Facility in Porvoo, with Annual Capacity of 150,000 Tons

Neste of Finland recently announced the successful commissioning of its new liquefied waste plastic (LWP) upgrading facility at its Porvoo refinery. This projec…

India

Arkema Plans to Sell Plastic Additives Business to Praana

Arkema S.A. has announced a proposed divestment of certain businesses within its impact modifiers and processing aids portfolio to the Indian group Praana. This…

United Kingdom

New ‘Homogenously Mixed’ Recycled Plastic Technology Trialled in UK Asphalt for First Time

North Lanarkshire Council has become the first in the UK to trial a new technology that homogenously mixes recycled plastic into asphalt, aiming to reduce bitum…

Japan

Avantium’s Plant-Based PDF Cleared for Recycling in Japan’s Pet Bottle System

Avantium, the Dutch renewable and circular polymer specialist, has secured approval in Japan for recycling its plant-based plastic releaf, a polyethylene furano…

Germany

Evonik and Schneider Electric Partner to Advance Automation in Thermoplastic Recycling

Schneider Electric, headquartered in Rueil-Malmaison, France, and Evonik, based in Essen, Germany, have formed a strategic partnership to automate a thermoplast…

Switzerland

Clariant Unveils New Titanium-Based Catalysts for Improved PET Recycling

Clariant AG, based in Muttenz, Switzerland, showcased its new AddWorks titanium-based catalyst solutions for polyester polymerization at K 2025, the world&rsquo…

Biorefinery

Eni Seeks Approval for Sicily Biorefinery, Recycling Plant

Italian energy company Eni announced on Thursday that it has begun the environmental approval process to convert its industrial site in Priolo, Sicily, into a b…

Switzerland

GF Achieves Carbon-Neutrality at Modernized Valve-Manufacturing Site

Georg Fischer Ltd. (GF), based in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, has completed a modernization project at its Seewis site, enhancing its production of plastic valve…

United States

Formosa Plastics Commissions Largest Horizontal Polypropylene Reactor in North America

Formosa Plastics Corporation, U.S.A., headquartered in Livingston, New Jersey, has successfully commissioned the largest horizontal polypropylene reactor in Nor…

United Kingdom

Plastic Energy and SABIC Announce Production of First Batch of TACOLL From Waste Plastic

Plastic Energy, a leader in chemical recycling based in London, UK, has successfully produced its first batch of TACOIL™ at a joint venture plant with SAB…

Italy

Versalis Unveils Demonstration Plant for Chemical Recycling

Versalis, the chemical division of Eni, has inaugurated a demonstration plant at its Mantua site in Italy, utilizing its proprietary Hoop® technology for ch…

France

INEOS Begins Plastic Production Using Recycled Feedstock in France

INEOS Olefins & Polymers, based in Lavera, Southern France, has received its initial shipments of pyrolysis oil, a feedstock derived from recycled plastic waste…

Belgium

Vioneo and Wood Partner on World’s First Fossil-Free Plastics Plant

Vioneo, a plastics manufacturer, has partnered with engineering firm Wood to develop a pioneering plant in Antwerp, Belgium, that will produce carbon-negative p…

United States

KBR Selected as Commercialization Partner for Samsara Eco’s First-Of-Its-Kind Enzymatic Recycling Plant

KBR, Inc., based in Houston, has partnered with Samsara Eco, a Sydney-based biotech innovator, to design a pioneering enzymatic recycling plant for plastics and…

Waste-to-Energy Plant

Does N.C. Need Another Polluting Plant to Turn Plastic Waste Into Diesel Fuel?

The company tried educational chatbots and cryptocurrency. Then nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, of movies and cars. Even a service to Catholic churches allowing th…