Nouryon has successfully completed the production capacity for organic peroxides at its manufacturing facility in Ningbo, China. With this, the firm has doubled the production capacity to 6,000 tons each of Perkadox 14 and Trigonox 101 organic peroxide products.

Emirates Biotech has selected Sulzer’s technology for its upcoming Polylactic Acid production plant in the United Arab Emirates. Claimed to be the largest PLA production facility in the world on completion, the project is expected to have a production capacity of 160,000 tonnes per annum.

BASF has unveiled its new production line for water-based dispersions in Heerenveen, the Netherlands. With this new line, the company will be able to increase its production capacity without additional CO2 emissions.

In the presence of Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid of Belgium, Solvay has launched climate and water projects at its Paulínia site in Brazil. The investment is expected to reduce the site’s GHG emissions by 40 % and water input by 10 % annually as compared to 2021 levels.

Under a new cooperation between Neste and PCS, both the companies will work together to supply renewable solutions to Southeast Asia’s chemicals industry. The move is expected to introduce renewable raw materials in the chemicals and plastics value chains in the region.

Ineos has plans to permanently close its acrylonitrile butadiene styrene production facility in Addyston, Ohio, USA. The move has been undertaken by the firm as the site is no longer economical for it.

Under a collaboration between Henkel and Celanese, both the firms will work together to produce water-based adhesives made from captured CO2 emissions. The move is expected to create new opportunities for customers in the packaging and consumer goods sector to increase the renewable content of their products.

Evonik has begun operations at its new facility for drying aqueous dispersions of Eudragit polymers at its site in Darmstadt, Germany. The new manufacturing unit will enable Evonik to meet the increasing demand from pharmaceutical customers for oral drug delivery solutions.

The acquisition of APK is in line with Lyondell Basell’s goal of producing and marketing at least 2 million metric tons of recycled and renewable based polymers annually by 2030. APK’s unique solvent-based recycling technology is a perfect fit with the company’s existing mechanical and advanced recycling technologies.

Bridgestone Americas has received a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy Industrial Efficiency and Decarbonization Office. Bridgestone aims to design, build and operate a pilot plant that will advance an innovative, potentially more sustainable and cost-effective approach to obtaining butadiene from ethanol.