Keyword: Circular Economy

News

French to develop EPS Recycling Scheme

09.07.2018 - Two French companies and two national industry associations have joined forces to launch a polystyrene recycling system as part of France’s contribution to the EU’s Circular...

News

EU Parliament Approves Circular Economy Plan

24.04.2018 - The European Parliament (EP) has approved the European Commission’s Circular Economy package aimed at reducing waste and boosting recycling in the currently 28 member states, along...

Strategy & Management

Specialty Chemicals – Ideas for Growth

30.03.2018 - In both the specialty and chemicals segments, companies can spur growth by yield optimization, capacity expansions with longer-term focus and new business models along the entire...

Strategy & Management

Navigating in the VUCA Business Environment

27.02.2018 -

Times are changing, and we are changing in them. An old saying that goes back to Ovid - but still true today. The business world has become more VUCA (volatile, uncertain...

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Consortium Plans Dutch Waste-to-Methanol Plant

21.02.2018 - A consortium that comprises AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals, industrial gases group Air Liquide, Canadian cleantech company Enerkem and the Port of Rotterdam has signed an agreement...

Markets & Companies

Regaining Competitiveness in the Global Market

24.11.2017 - The European chemical industry is of major importance for economic development and wealth, providing modern products and materials and enabling solutions in virtually all sectors...

News

Achieving a Carbon Neutral Chemical Sector by 2050

24.07.2017 - The chemical industry’s ambition is to play a leading role in the transformation of the European economy to a low-carbon and circular one by creating innovative climate and energy...

Strategy & Management

A Future-oriented Industrial Policy Strategy

07.07.2017 - René van Sloten, CEFIC executive director industrial policy, explains why a holistic EU industrial policy strategy needs to be put in place – as called for by the Competitiveness...