Trillium has plans to launch the world’s first demonstration plant for bio-based acrylonitrile – ‘Project Falcon’ at Ineos Nitriles' Green Lake facility in Texas, USA. The company has raised 13-million-dollars for the project.

With an intent to streamline its polymers operations in Berre, France, Kraton has plans to solely focus on producing unhydrogenated styrenic block copolymers products at the site and cease production of hydrogenated styrenic block copolymers products.

Arkema has announced a 20 % expansion of its Kynar PVDF production capacity at its Changshu site in China which is also the firm’s largest manufacturing site across the globe. The move aims to meet the growing demand for Kynar PVDF across all key markets.

With a hefty investment of 111 million euros, Neste has successfully commissioned its new upgrading facility for liquified waste plastic (LWP) at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. Claimed to be the world’s largest LWP upgrading facility, the plant is expected to process up to 150,000 tons of LPW annually.

Europe’s chemical industry is sliding into crisis as rising energy costs, weak demand, and dwindling investments force widespread plant shutdowns. Without swift policy intervention, the region risks losing its industrial backbone to competitors in lower cost, faster growing markets.

Plastindia makes New Delhi the center of the plastics world on the subcontinent in February – and for the first time since the acquisition of Sikora, Maag is present on-site together with its new subsidiary.

Under a MOU signed between Invista and Epoch Biodesign, both the companies will work together to advance the development of post-consumer recycled nylon 6,6. The partnership will combine Epoch’s AI-engineered recycling enzymes with Invista’s polymerization expertise and global footprint.

BASF’s Performance Materials Division has converted all of its European sites to run completely on renewable electricity. The changeover applies to the compounding of Engineering Plastics, Polyurethanes and Thermoplastic Polyurethanes and Specialty Polymers.

Nextchem has recently inaugurated a new premises at its Myreplast 30,000 square-metre upcycling plant in Bedizzole, Italy. The new premises also includes a showroom with an immersive experience hall where clients can observe Myreplast's plastic upcycling process based on the proprietary NX Replast technology.

Borealis has plans to invest a whooping amount of 49 million euros in order to scale up polypropylene production at its manufacturing site in Burghausen, Germany.