Specialists from the nova-Institute were able to recognize 25 applications or plastic products for which biodegradability is a viable or the best end-of-life option. All the details have been shared in the report titled ‘Biosinn – Products for which biodegradation makes sense’.

Nature Works has plans to establish a new fully integrated Ingeo PLA production facility in Thailand. Expected to have a capacity of 75,000 tons annually, the plant is scheduled to be completed by 2024.

With an aim to advance the circular economy, Lyondell Basell has started producing virgin quality polymers from raw materials derived from plastic waste at its Wesseling site in Germany.

The Maag Group will be showcasing its solutions at the virtual Achema Pulse event scheduled to be held on June 15 and 16, 2021.

The Adani Group will be developing a new coal-to-polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plant in Mundra, Gujarat, India. The 2 million metric tons/year unit is expected to produce PVC grades such as suspension PVC, chlorinated PVC and emulsion PVC.

Chevron Phillips Chemical’s new world-scale unit has broken ground in Old Ocean, Texas, USA. The 266 KTA plant will make use of the company’s proprietary on-purpose 1-hexene technology to produce exceptional purity comonomer grade 1-hexene from ethylene in order to expand its alpha olefins business.

Eastman introduces Fluid Genius, a revolutionary new patent-pending product that equips engineers and operations managers with predictive insights to optimize heat transfer fluid performance.

Honeywell UOP’s C3 Oleflex technology has been selected by Anchorage Investments to produce 750,000 metric tons per year of polymer-grade propylene for its new Anchor Benitoite petrochemicals complex in Suez, Egypt.

Neste has awarded Technip Energies with two contracts which revolve around the development of its renewables production platform in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The first contract includes EPCM for the modification of Neste's existing renewables production refinery in order to produce SAF while the second one includes FEED for Neste's potential renewable products refinery.

Neste, Mitsui Chemicals and Toyota Tsusho have collaborated to start first production of renewable plastics from 100 % bio-based hydrocarbons in Japan. Mitsui Chemicals will use 100 % bio-based hydrocarbons produced by Neste to replace a part of the fossil feedstock at its crackers within Osaka Works in Japan.