According to a report from Grand View Research, the global market for bio-succinic acid is expected to reach $992.9 million by 2020, growing at a CAGR of 23.3 percent from 2014 to 2020. The recognition of succinic acid, as a potential ...
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Russia's Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat has launched a new pyrolisis furnace at its Monomer petrochemical plant in Bashkortostan, in the Urals region of Russia, and expects its ethylene and propylene output this year will increase by around 13%, ...
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Six major categories of plastic packaging help to significantly reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions compared to packaging alternatives made with other materials. A recent study: "Impact of Plastics Packaging on Life Cycle ...
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"Lighter, more attractive, consumer-friendlier packages." Has Krones got your attention? How about, "energy-economical, eco-friendly and affordable production operations"? These are the vital advantages that Krones will be putting on ...
Nampak Plastics, the UK’s leading producer of plastic milk bottles based in Newport Pagnell, has announced that sales of its multi-award-winning Infini bottle have reached the 500 million mark. Since its launch in 2012, sales of the ...
Qixia District Council in China has placed an order with Australian packaging materials manufacturer Cardia Bioplastics for 500,000 Biohybrid kitchen waste bags. Manufactured using Cardia's proprietary Biohybrid technology, the bags ...
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The US ethylene market could have six new world-scale steam crackers online by 2017-2019, Dow Chemical's Jim Fitterling said Wednesday. Speaking at the IHS World Petrochemical Conference in Houston, Fitterling announced expansions for the ...
Total Petrochemicals and IFP Energies Nouvelles (IFPEN) have launched via Atol, a joint partnership, technology to produce bio-ethylene via the dehydration of renewable ethanol, the companies announced Wednesday. The technology will ...
Global beverage can manufacturer Rexam has received a binding offer from Berry Plastics Group of $135m to acquire its Healthcare business’ remaining Containers & Closures division. According to Rexam, the transaction, which requires ...
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Cardia Bioplastics Limited is pleased to announce the use of Cardia Bioplastics compostable resin technology for the development of So Delicious Dairy Free's innovative compostable ice cream sticks. So Delicious Dairy Free purchased first ...
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Videojet has introduced the new thermal ink jet printer Videojet 8610, which offers high resolution print on non-porous packaging materials such as films, foils, plastics, and coated stocks. The new printer, which has a controller with ...
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Hot tapping is a procedure where particular tools are used to cut into a present pipeline while it is still in the functioning mode. It may comprise of liquid or even gas and it will be under the pressure and so certainly it is arrived with ...
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Feedstock issues and supply tightness have driven up North American prices for suspension PVC and solid polystyrene resin since Feb. 1. But a different feedstock and lower demand served to send regional prices for PET bottle resin down in ...
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As the United States continues to lead the world in the production of natural gas, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have devised a new and more efficient method with the potential to convert the ...
From the outside, it's hard to imagine that the Flexan Corp. facility in an unassuming neighborhood in Chicago serves as the headquarters for a thriving global enterprise. But the 65,000-sq.-ft. complex not only houses production for the ...