Italian companies Saipem and Garbo have agreed to collaborate to commercialize the latter’s proprietary depolymerization technology, called ChemPET. The process converts...
US nylon giant Ascend Performance Materials has acquired an undisclosed majority stake in compatriot Circular Polymers, a recycler of post-consumer high-performance...
24.04.2020
- BP has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with China Resources Chemical Innovative Materials Holdings (CRC), a leading PET producer and one of the UK energy and petrochemical...
08.01.2019
- Thai polyester giant Indorama Ventures (IVL) and its two partners in the joint acquisition vehicle CC Polymers have received all regulatory clearance from the US Federal Trade...
20.04.2018
- An incidental find by a joint UK and US research team could have the potential to revolutionize plastics recycling and possibly ease the increasing burden of waste in the...
29.03.2018
- Creditors of insolvent Italian plastics producer M&G Group (formerly Mossi & Ghisolfi) have teamed up to buy the mammoth PTA and PET plant the company’s subsidiary M&G Polymers USA...
20.03.2018
- Leading PET producer Indorama Ventures has agreed to buy M&G Polimeros Brazil for an undisclosed sum. The Brazilian company’s parent, Italy’s Mossi Ghisolfi Group, filed for...
10.11.2017
- Thailand’s Indorama Ventures, the world’s largest PET producer, has agreed to buy the assets of Artlant PTA in Portugal for an undisclosed sum. The PTA plant in the Sines...
