What to do with the packaging plastic? The company Krones aims at closed circuits with its solutions..

Pure Cycle Technologies has transformed waste carpet into ultra-pure polypropylene resin with the help of its proprietary plastics recycling technology which has been developed by Procter & Gamble.

Shell’s base chemicals operation in the United States of America (USA) Gulf Coast region has taken advantage of changing hydrocarbon market dynamics to strengthen its advantaged feedstock processing capability and simplify its business. The turnaround in performance and competitive positioning achieved is vital to the success of Shell’s chemicals business in the USA and for future security of supply to customers in North American heartland markets.

The ‘Global Pharmaceutical Functional and Multifunctional Excipients Market, Forecast to 2023,’ report by Frost & Sullivan mentions that innovative drug delivery technologies, a growing generic and biosimilar drug market, and aging population are the core factors responsible for the growth of the functional and multifunctional excipients in the pharmaceutical industry.

Trinseo has teamed up with global technology provider Synova and global engineering services company Worley to establish the mega chemical recycling plant which is expected to process 15 kilotons of recycled polystyrene flakes every year. The flakes will then be converted into high quality recycled styrene to enable further production of polystyrene.

Wanner International’s Hydra-Cell pumps ensure optimum energy usage and have the capacity to reduce the total energy usage by up to 50 % for industrial sectors. It also helps to reduce carbon footprint.

DEM Solutions has implemented its EDEM simulation software onto SGI UV, the “Big Brain” computer, to deliver a first large-scale bulk particle simulation using commercially-available DEM software. The initial implementation on an SGI UV running 128 cores and 2TB of memory enables a simulation of 10 million model elements.

Dow and UPM Biofuels have teamed up to produce plastics from a bio-based renewable feedstock for the packaging industry. With this move, Dow plans to address the growing demand for renewable plastics across the globe.

The technology group The Linde Group has closed a long-term deal to supply the Indonesian steel corporation PT. Krakatau Posco (PTKP) with industrial gases. Linde will invest around € 88 million in constructing the country’s largest air separation unit (ASU) at Cilegon, around 100 kilometres west of Jakarta.

With an aim to meet the growing global demand, Solvay has plans to increase its soda ash and sodium bicarbonate production capacity by 600 kilo tonnes in the USA and 200 kilo tonnes in Bulgaria respectively.