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02.08.2024 • News

Carbios & Sasa Discuss Licensing PET Biorecycling Facility

Carbios, a company specializing in biological technologies for the life cycle of plastic and textiles, and Sasa, a manufacturer of polyester and related products, have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to explore the potential acquisition of a license for Carbios’ PET biorecycling technology by Sasa.

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27.10.2023 • News

LyondellBasell Acquires 25% of Joint Venture Cyclyx

LyondellBasell has acquired a 25% stake in Cyclyx International, a joint venture between Agilyx and ExxonMobil formed in December 2020. Cyclyx is working with industry participants to develop innovative recycling solutions for all types of post-use plastics and aims at increasing the recyclability of plastics from 10% to 90%.

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09.10.2023 • News

PCG to Build Asia’s Largest Advanced Chemical Recycling Plant

Malaysia’s leading integrated chemicals producer Petronas Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG), part of Petronas group, has reached the final investment decision (FID) to construct an advanced chemical recycling plant with a capacity of 33 kt/a. The plant, to be built in Pengerang, Johor, is the largest of its kind in Asia, said Petronas, and is expected to be operational in the first half of 2026.

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12.05.2023 • News

TotalEnergies Acquires Iber Resinas

TotalEnergies has acquired Spanish mechanical recycling company Iber Resinas for an undisclosed sum. The French energy, chemicals and plastics company said the acquisition will increase its production of circular polymers in Europe, extend its range of recycled products and enhance its access to feedstock through Iber Resinas’ network of suppliers.

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04.05.2023 • News

NextChem Takes Majority Stake in MyRemono

NextChem, part of Italian engineering group Maire Tecnimont, has paid €6.12 million to take a 51% stake in MyRemono, a new company set up with partner Biorenova, which holds the remaining 49%.

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03.05.2023 • News

LyondellBasell Takes Veolia’s Recycling JV Stake

LyondellBasell said it plans to acquire Veolia Belgium‘s stake in the joint venture Quality Circular Polymers (QCP), which has recycling facilities in Belgium and the Netherlands. Currently, the Paris-headquartered waste management group supplies soiled plastic waste to the recycling units, a role it will continue on an independent basis.

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31.03.2023 • News

Agilyx and Ineos Advance Channahon PS Recycling Project

Agilyx and Ineos Styrolution are advancing work on their previously announced PS chemical recycling project in Channahon, Illinois, USA. They expect to complete engineering this year, providing the foundation for a final investment decision.

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21.03.2023 • News

Saipem and Garbo in Chemical Recycling Collaboration

Italian companies Saipem and Garbo have agreed to collaborate to commercialize the latter’s proprietary depolymerization technology, called ChemPET. The process converts waste PET into high-quality, high-value PET that can be reused in the chemical and food industries.

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27.02.2023 • News

Avantium and Origin Partner on PEF

Avantium is partnering with Origin Materials to accelerate the mass production of furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) and plant-based, fully recyclable plastic, polyethylene furanoate (PEF).

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21.02.2023 • News

Maire Tecnimont and Dimeta Explore DME from Waste

NextChem and its subsidiary MyRechemical – both part of Italy’s Maire Tecnimont group – and Dutch company Dimeta have agreed to jointly explore new opportunities to develop plants for producing renewable and recycled carbon dimethyl ether (DME) from waste.

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07.02.2023 • News

Repsol Plans New Recycled Plastic Capacity at Puertollano

Repsol has announced plans to install a new production line for recycled plastics at its site in Puertollano, Spain. The new line, with capacity of 25,000 t/y, will go into operation at the end of 2024, almost doubling existing output of 16,000 t/y.

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23.12.2022 • News

ExxonMobil Starts up Advanced Recycling Plant

ExxonMobil has started up what it says is one of the largest advanced recycling facilities in North America at its integrated manufacturing complex in Baytown, Texas, where the company uses proprietary Exxtend technology to break down hard-to-recycle plastics and process them into chemical feedstock.

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28.11.2022 • News

TotalEnergies to Build Recycling Unit for PP

France’s TotalEnergies said it plans to build a new production line for high-performance recycled polypropylene used in automotive applications at its polymer production site in Carling, France.

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23.11.2022 • News

LyondellBasell Progresses German Advanced Recycling Plan

LyondellBasell (LYB) said it is moving ahead with engineering for a commercial scale advanced plastics waste recycling plant it intends to build at its Wesseling, Germany, production site together with Germany’s 23 Oaks Investments.

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09.11.2022 • News

Ascend Acquires California Plastics Recycler

US nylon giant Ascend Performance Materials has acquired an undisclosed majority stake in compatriot Circular Polymers, a recycler of post-consumer high-performance polymers including PA 6 and 6.6, polypropylene and PET.

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31.10.2022 • News

Solvay Reuses Rosignano Limestone Residues

Solvay is collaborating with two companies to collect and reuse the limestone residues from its soda ash production in Rosignano, Italy. The move will enable the residues to be reused in construction and agriculture.

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05.09.2022 • News

BASF to Collaborate with Sulzer ChemTech

Germany’s BASF and Swiss-based technology firm Sulzer Chemtech have announced plans to collaborate on finding sustainable solutions for a number of industrial applications, in particular renewable fuels and chemically recycled plastics.

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31.08.2022 • News

Covestro Builds up Mechanical Reycling in Asia

German engineering plastics producer Covestro is buiilding its first dedicated line for mechanical recycling (MCR) of polycarbonates at its integrated site in Shanghai, China. The new 25,000 t/y facility, which will cost €27 million, is planned to start up in 2023.

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23.06.2022 • News

BASF to Build Battery Recycling Plant at Schwarzheide

German chemical giant BASF has announced it will build a commercial scale battery recycling black mass plant in at its Schwarzheide, Germany, site, strengthening the location’s activities in production and recycling of cathode active materials (CAM).

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08.06.2022 • News

KBR Invests in Plastics Recycling Firm

US science, technology and engineering group KBR is investing a further $100 million in chemical recycling firm Mura Technology. The move takes KBR’s aggregate investment in Mura to 18.5%.

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28.10.2021 • News

Covestro Leads R&D Project for Recycling PU Foam

German engineering plastics producer Covestro is heading up a four-year EU-funded innovation project with 22 partners from nine countries to help erase the industry’s recycling deficits and close the material cycle for rigid polyurethane foam used in refrigerators and building insulation.

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20.10.2021 • News

ExxonMobil Plans Chemical Recycling Plant in Baytown

Following trials earlier this year of its proprietary technology for advanced recycling – also referred to as chemical recycling – ExxonMobil has now announced its intention to build a large-scale plant in Baytown, Texas, USA.

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15.10.2021 • News

Topsoe and Dow Partner on Chemical Recycling

Haldor Topsoe is partnering Dow to accelerate development of chemical recycling technology that converts hard-to-recycle waste plastics into pyrolysis oil feedstock. The Danish group will support the design and engineering of a 10,000 t/y market-development, or pilot, unit to be built at Dow’s site in Terneuzen, the Netherlands.

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