Press Releases

Winners of the Plastics Industry Awards 2023 were announced on Friday night (17 November) at a black-tie gala evening at the Intercontinental London Park Lane. Presented by Marcus Brigstocke, star of TV and radio, stand-up comedian, actor and writer, the awards recognise the many ways in which plastics product design, manufacture and recycling contribute to successful and sustainable innovation in the UK & Eire. Jaguar Land Rover featured prominently among this year’s winn

Arkema, leader in specialty materials, will showcase more sustainable solutions and innovation for coatings during ABRAFATI 2023 - the International Exhibition and Congress of Suppliers for Paints, November 21-23 in São Paulo, Brazil, Booth #A79. The company is expanding its leading portfolio of high performance and sustainable materials, including solutions for UV/LED, powder, waterborne and high solid coating technologies.  Arkema will feature a full offering for multi

LyondellBasell today announced it has declared a dividend of $1.25 per share, to be paid December 4, 2023, to shareholders of record on November 27, 2023, with an ex-dividend date of November 24, 2023. About LyondellBasell We are LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) – a leader in the global chemical industry creating solutions for everyday sustainable living. Through advanced technology and focused investments, we are enabling a circular and low carbon economy

Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP, as Operator for Golden Triangle Polymers, onboarded its first class of 28 process operators this week for the world-scale integrated polymers facility under construction in Orange County, Texas. The newly hired operators come primarily from the nine-County Golden Triangle region. “Operations makes up most of the workforce for our petrochemical facilities, and these highly skilled employees are the backbone of what we do, helping to ensure

Researchers of RIKEN at Japan’s state-of-the-art synchrotron radiation facility, SPring-8, and their collaborators, have developed a faster and simpler way to carry out segmentation analysis, a vital process in materials science. The new method was published in the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials: Methods. Segmentation analysis is used to understand the fine-scale composition of a material. It identifies distinct regions (or ‘segments’) with sp

Neste, Mitsui Chemicals and Prime Polymer, a subsidiary of Mitsui Chemicals, are working together to provide more sustainable food packaging solutions for CO-OP, a brand of the Japanese Consumers Co-operative Union (JCCU). In the first phase of the collaboration, bio-based raw materials will replace fossil ones in the production of the packaging material for a seaweed snack. Going forward, the companies intend to introduce bio-based raw materials also to packaging for further products.

Asahi Kasei, Gentari Hydrogen Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of PETRONAS clean energy arm Gentari Sdn Bhd (Gentari), and JGC Holdings Corporation (JGC) today announced the completion of a detailed feasibility study for production of up to 8,000 tonnes per year of green hydrogen using a 60 megawatt (MW) class alkaline water electrolyser system. The parties also signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for a front-end engineering design (FEED) study for the said project. This project is s

Covestro's Newark, Ohio, polycarbonate compounding facility has achieved ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) PLUS certification, increasing availability of the company's mass balanced polycarbonate products in the U.S. This achievement comes on the heels of the certification of Covestro's Baytown, Texas, facility earlier this year and marks a major step forward in the path towards circularity for polycarbonates in the U.S.Makrolon® polycarbon

A new study reveals that coffee capsules made with Ingeo PLA biopolymer from NatureWorks outperform aluminum,conventional plastics, and other compostable capsules when it comes to sustainability performance. The independent study conducted by Netherlands-based Wageningen Food & Biobased Research, a part of Wageningen University & Research (WUR), assessed the environmental impact and circularity of singl-use coffee capsules made from compostable biobased materials, aluminum, and conven

The subtle adhesive forces that allow geckos to seemingly defy gravity, cling to walls and walk across ceilings have inspired a team of researchers in South Korea to build a robotic device that can pick up and release delicate materials without damage. The team, based at Kyungpook National University and Dong-A University, has published their research work in Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, an international science journal. The researchers are hoping it can be applied to the tra

Azelis, a leading global innovation service provider in the specialty chemicals and food ingredients industry, announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of Agspec Australia Pty Ltd (‘Agspec’), a leading distributor of crop nutrition, crop protection and specialty agricultural products in Australia. The transaction is expected to close in Q1 2024, after fulfilment of customary closing conditions. The acquisition aligns perfectly with Azelis&r

Materials manufacturer Covestro has entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with five partners in China’s photovoltaic (PV) value chain, inaugurating a new innovation platform dedicated to advancing sustainability within the industry. By capitalizing on Covestro’s diversified solutions and robust research and development capabilities, this collaboration aspires to facilitate the integration of circular economy principles in the solar power sector’s manufacturing phase