Under the terms of the collaboration, Sabic and Plastic Energy’s advanced recycling unit will receive pre-sorted and treated plastic waste from Siemer’s sorting plant in Germany. The unit will convert the plastic waste into pyrolysis oil which will then be treated and used as alternative feedstock by Sabic to produce certified circular polymers.

Petronas Chemicals Group has plans to acquire a 113 kilo-tonnes per annum Maleic Anhydride plant from BASF Petronas Chemicals. Located in Malaysia, the new unit is expected to expand the firm’s product portfolio.

The consortium has decided to separate their joint diphenylmethane diisocyanate production in Caojing, China. With this move, the companies will independently operate two MDI plants at the Caojing site.

Wacker has expanded its hyperpure hydrogen chloride production at the Burghausen site in Germany in order to cater to the growing demand of HCI across the semiconductor industry.

Encina has partnered with Veolia Water Technologies to develop a world-class water treatment system for its Encina Point Township Circular Manufacturing Facility in Point Township, Pennsylvania, USA.

Centrifugal pumps pump lower viscosity liquids with a high flow rate and are used across the chemical, petrochemical as well as wastewater treatment industry. These pumps play a vital role in industrial plants and market players have now introduced many new features to these pumps which makes them different from their counterparts. In this article, we have listed some of the latest innovations in this space.

Mitsui Chemicals’ Mitsui Phenols Singapore has been taken over by Ineos Phenol as its assets are in line with the company’s existing asset portfolio. The deal also provides integration opportunities with Ineos’ manufacturing sites in Germany, Belgium and the U.S.

Fluor has secured an EPC contract for Mitsubishi Chemical’s soarnol ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer facility in the UK. Fluor’s scope of work includes modifications to the existing facility and the addition of a new second production line that will increase capacity by 21,000 tons annually.

Solvay Ventures has invested in Compact Membrane Systems and aims to decarbonize heavy industries through the use of carbon capture technologies with this collaboration.

Chemical recycling has been in the news for quite some time but what is this technology all about? And how does this technology help to solve the plastic problem as well as boost the circular economy concept? Read on to gain an insight into the technology and its benefits for the world at large.