Experts at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have recently found record levels of microplastic in arctic sea ice. However, the majority of particles were microscopically small. The ice ...
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US startup Mango Materials is testing a new process for biodegradable plastics at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Biofuels Process Demonstration Unit. By using bacterial fermentation process, the startup is engaged in the ...
The Tisch University Chemistry and Chemical Biology professor Geoffrey Coates and his team has worked with a group of researchers from the University of Minnesota to develop multiblock polymer, which could boost plastic recycling. ...
After signing the agreement, Wang Yupu (R) shakes hands with Igor Sechin (L). On Sept. 2, Sinopec and Russia’s Rosneft signed at the Eastern Economic Forum a binding agreement on a joint prefeasibility study for the construction and ...
Tags: Sinopec, Rosneft, joint prefeasibility study
Linx Printing has unveiled a new ink, known as Linx Black PE Ink 1130, offering improved adhesion to polyethylene (PE) and most polypropylene (PP) applications. The Linx Black PE Ink 1130 ink is suitable for non-contact food packaging ...
Global polypropylene capacity increased at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 5.2% from 2003, reaching 65 million tons per year (mmty) in 2013, and is expected to continue rising to 86 mmty by 2018, at a slightly higher CAGR of 5.8%, ...
Tags: China&Russia, Polypropylene, Textile
Toyo Engineering Corporation (TOYO, President and CEO Katsumoto Ishibashi) has been awarded a contract to build a large gas chemical complex for State Concern “Turkmengas”, in collaboration with Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd., ...
Seeking to boost its methanol production capacity while meeting stricter regional environmental regulations, Jiutai Group has selected GE’s high-pressure gasification technology for a coal-to-methanol factory expansion project in the ...
Tags: Greener Methanol, GE
Argentina's petrochemicals industry is unlikely to expand until more natural gas and related feedstock supplies become available when the potential of the country's shale gas plays is turned into production in a decade or so, an analyst ...
Tags: Gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers, the leading trade organization representing the plastics recycling industry in North America, has published an executive summary version of their recyclability design guides for packaging ...
Formosa Plastics USA has lifted force majeure declarations on its output of high molecular weight film polyethylene and polypropylene, company spokesman Steve Rice said Monday. The company issued the force majeure declaration on all of ...
Tags: Polypropylene, PE
Pharmaceutical packaging has to be carried out for the purpose of the safety of the pharmaceutical preparations in order to keep them free from contamination, hinder microbial growth, and ensure product safety through the intended shelf ...
Tags: Pharmaceutical Packaging, Packaging Machinery, Packaging, Health
Pharmaceutical packaging has to be carried out for the purpose of the safety of the pharmaceutical preparations in order to keep them free from contamination, hinder microbial growth, and ensure product safety through the intended shelf ...
Tags: Pharmaceutical Packaging, Packaging, Packaging Machinery
Indonesia's state-owned oil and gas company Pertamina has signed sales and purchase agreements with PTT Polymer Marketing, a unit of Thailand's PTT Global Chemical, for polyethylene and polypropylene products, a Pertamina official said ...
Symphony Environmental Technologies deputy chairman has told Chinese investors that environmental technologies can offer many benefits for future investment with worldwide applications and are urgently needed to tackle China’s own ...