Cellufoam, a lightweight, fiber-based foam material will be produced at Stora Enso’s pilot plant in Sweden. Utilised for protective packaging, the renewable foam can eliminate the need for oil-based polymer foams in the packaging industry.

The new plant will be Thyssenkrupp’s second bioplastics facility in China and is expected to produce 30,000 tonnes of polylactide (PLA) every year. The new unit will be based on the firm’s patented Planeo technology which is capable of producing sustainable plastics.

Repsol plans to adapt one of the units at its Tarragona industrial complex in Spain to manufacture highly specialised polymers which will prove beneficial to the automotive sector due to its superior impact resistance.

The new Wuxi plant is Sumitomo Chemical’s fifth production facility in China and with this project; the company aims to enhance its automotive materials business in the country’s Jiangsu Province.

Evonik will be conducting the free weekly webinar series every Tuesday from October 6 – December 8, 2020. Each session will focus on key formulation, process and production challenges for complex oral and parenteral drug products.

Under the new consortium, Veolia is expected to dismantle used batteries and extract the active metals while Solvay will optimise the extraction and purification of critical metals as well as transform them into high-purity raw materials for new batteries.

Lyondell Basell’s pilot plant will be using the company’s proprietary Moretec advanced recycling technology to convert used plastic waste into feedstock for new plastic materials. The new unit is capable of processing between 5 and 10 kg of household plastic waste per hour.

Sibur will make use of 34 kt of recycled plastics every year to produce the green PET granules at its Polief site in Blagoveshchensk. The move aims to meet the growing demand of eco-friendly PET packaging and is in line with the company’s 2025 Sustainability Strategy.

Together, the MOL Group and Meraxis intend to develop and produce high-quality recycle-based compounds. Under this deal, Meraxis will supply the MOL Group with high-quality, post-consumer recycled materials which will be combined with the firm’s virgin polyolefin resins.

Duqm Refinery and Petrochemical Industries Company’s new plants include a 280 KTA polypropylene plant and a 480 KTA high-density polyethylene plant which will utilise Lyondell Basell’s Spheripol PP and Hostalen ACP process technology respectively.