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.

BASF’s Coatings Division has appointed Patrick Zheng Yu Zhao to take charge of the new Global Automotive OEM Coatings Solutions business unit in Hong Kong. It has also chosen Chris Titmarsh for its new Global Automotive Refinish Coatings Solutions business unit in Münster, Germany along with Frank Naber who will be responsible for the Global Surface Treatment business unit in Frankfurt, Germany.

Trinseo’s new pilot facility was inaugurated in April in which the dissolution technology helps to extract 100 % recycled PC for use in new materials. Jo-Annes de Bat, Provincial Executive of the Netherlands was the guest of honor at the inauguration ceremony.

Berry Global, Peel Plastic Products and Exxonmobil have joined hands to use ISCC Plus certified-circular plastics into pet food packaging. Exxonmobil’s Exxtend technology will be used for advanced recycling of the plastic waste.

The consortium including Neste, Uponor, Wastewise and Borealis have entered into a project to produce cross-linked polyethylene (Pex) pipes from chemically recycled Pex waste. With this project, the consortium is demonstrating that chemical recycling can process hard-to-recycle waste plastic into high-quality polymer products.

With 3 petaflops of computing power, the new supercomputer is the world’s largest supercomputer used in industrial chemical research and has been started up at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site in Germany.

With the partnership, both the companies aim to optimize the production of bacterial cellulose and produce bio-based materials which act as the perfect green substitute for synthetic polymers used in the market today such as acrylates, polyethylene, and polystyrene.

Solvolysis and pyrolysis are two established technologies for chemical recycling. Both of these technologies involve demanding tasks for the mixing technology. This article summarizes the practical approaches to address these challenges — from lab, through piloting and demonstration scale, before building a commercial reactor or plant system.

With the acquisition of Tradeimpex, IMCD India plans to expand its advanced materials business in the Asian country. Tradeimpex generated a revenue of approximately 39 million euros in the last financial year.

Under an agreement signed between Sulzer and JTC Corporation, the Switzerland-based firm will develop a new R&D center for its separation technology solutions in Singapore. Sulzer aims to carry out its research activities on chemical separation processes for circular operations at the center.