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Yesterday, LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, Netherlands), a global leader in the chemical industry and KIRKBI (Billund, Denmark), the family-owned holding and investment company of the LEGO® brand, announce they have signed an agreement to make an investment in APK (Merseburg, Germany), which specializes in a unique solvent-based recycling technology for low density polyethylene (LDPE).

Carbon-fibre-reinforced plastics (CFRP) are highly attractive for various industries in demanding application fields due to their unique balance of rigidity, mechanical strength, and lightweight – also compared with conventional glass-fibre-reinforced plastics.

Carbios (Saint-Beauzire, France) and Novozymes (Bagsværd, Denmark), the world leader in biological solutions, recently announced an exclusive long-term global strategic partnership.

Following the construction of its first PLA (poly-lactic acid) plant in China in 2021, Futerro's ambition is to set up a new fully integrated biorefinery in the industrial and port area of Port-Jérôme, in the Caux Seine agglomeration (commune of Saint-Jean-de-Folleville), located on the Seine axis between Rouen and Le Havre.

LanzaTech (Skokie, IL, USA), an innovative Carbon Capture and Transformation (“CCT”) company that transforms waste carbon into materials such as sustainable fuels, fabrics, packaging, and other products that people use in their daily lives, and Sumitomo Riko (Nagoya, Japan), recently announced they have entered into a joint-development agreement to reuse rubber, resin and urethane waste for the production of a key chemical intermediate, isoprene.

TotalEnergies Corbion launches white paper about the recyclability of PLA bioplastic. Titled Stay in the cycle, rethinking recycling with PLA bioplastics, it summarizes the current PLA’s recycling market, regulations, and technologies.

Synova (Maassluis, the Netherlands), SABIC Global Technologies B.V. (Bergen Op Zoom, the Netherlands) – an affiliate of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC – Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), and Technip Energies (Nanterre, France) have signed a Joint Development and Cooperation Agreement on November 23, 2022 to collaborate on the development and realization of a commercial plant, which will produce olefins and aromatics from plastic waste.

LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) today announces it has made a decision to move forward with engineering to build an advanced recycling plant at its Wesseling, Germany, site.

INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany), the global leader in styrenics, has recently announced the availability of a new publication on the recycling of plastics.

All you want to know about advanced recycling technologies and renewable chemicals, building-blocks, monomers, and polymers based on recycling: 14–15 November 2022, Cologne, Germany (hybrid event)

INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe (London, UK) and Plastic Energy (London, UK), have recently announced a Memorandum Of Understanding to produce 100,000 tonnes per annum of recycled raw materials from plastic waste.

Driven by its vision to enable a circular economy, Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland) launched an innovative portfolio of flexible, custom solutions for the emerging market of chemical plastics recycling.

LyondellBasell (Houston, TX, USA) and 23 Oaks Investments (Leiferde, Germany), signed an agreement to create Source One Plastics, a joint venture that will build an energy efficient, advanced plastic waste sorting and recycling facility in Germany.

TotalEnergies (Courbevoie, France), a global multi-energy company and Indaver (Antwerp, Belgium), a leader in sustainable waste management and advanced recycling in Europe, announced a commercial agreement for the supply of petrochemical feedstock generated from recycling of mixed polyolefins waste.

Interzero (Cologne, Germany)and Eastman (Kingsport, TN, USA) recently announced a long-term supply agreement for Eastman’s previously announced molecular recycling facility in Normandy, France. Interzero will provide up to 20,000 tonnes per year of hard-to-recycle PET household packaging waste that would otherwise be incinerated.

Dow (Midland, MI, USA), the world's leading materials science company, and Mura Technology (London, UK), the global pioneer of an advanced plastic recycling solution, today announce the next step in their ongoing collaboration to help solve the global plastics waste issue and advance circularity.

Anellotech (Pearl River, NY, USA) is pleased to announce that it has, for the first time, continuously processed solid, post-consumer plastic waste into light olefins and aromatics using its Plas-TCat™ catalytic pyrolysis technology. The waste consisted of a mixture of all major plastic types, with the exception of polyvinyl chloride (PVC).

After four decades of thermal conversion technology development, VTT (Espoo, Finland) is spinning out Olefy technology in October – a process that can affordably convert most of the world’s waste plastics back to usable virgin grade materials an infinite number of times. VTT also announces eight patent applications for the process.

With the new PLAYMOBIL product series Wiltopia, children discover our Earth, its special features and its inhabitants. Without dry facts, but with lots of play fun and sustainable material in proven Playmobil quality!

To reinforce its global commitment to sustainable development, especially its targets for eliminating plastic waste and combating climate change, Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil), the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas, as well as a market leader and pioneer producer of biopolymers on an industrial scale, announces that it has developed a next-generation technology for addressing plastic waste.

Carbios (Saint-Beauzire, France), a pioneer in the development of enzymatic solutions dedicated to the end-of-life of plastic and textile polymers, has signed an agreement with On (Zurich, Switzerland), Patagonia (Ventura, CA, USA), PUMA (Herzogenaurach, Germany), and Salomon (Annecy, France), to develop solutions that will enhance the recyclability and circularity of their products.

Neste (Espoo, Finland) has received a positive grant decision for up to EUR 135 million from the EU Innovation Fund for the company’s project to build chemical recycling capacities at its Porvoo refinery in Finland.

Showa Denko (SDK) (Tokyo, Japan) and Microwave Chemical (Osaka, Japan) have started joint development of a new microwave-based chemical recycling technology to directly transform used plastic into basic chemical feedstock.

Lanxess (Cologne, Germany) is currently developing new Tepex thermoplastic composites that are being made starting from recycled or biobased raw materials.

Neste (Espoo, Finland) has purchased the European rights to Alterra Energy’s liquefaction technology, further solidifying the company’s efforts to advance chemical recycling.

Am Montag, 20.06.2022 hat die ARD eine Dokumentation über den Umgang mit Kunststoffabfällen ausgestrahlt. „Aus dem Vorhandensein von Mängeln und der Existenz schwarzer Schafe aber den Schluss zu ziehen, man müsse generell auf Kunststoffe verzichten ist falsch,“ kommentierte kunststoffland NRW Geschäftsführer Ron Brinitzer, „hier wird das Kind mit dem Bade ausgeschüttet!“

A species of worm with an appetite for polystyrene could be the key to plastic recycling on a mass scale.

KBR (Houston, TX, USA) is pleased to announce it has entered into an agreement to invest an additional USD 100 million in Mura Technology (London, UK) bringing KBR’s aggregate investment in Mura to 18.5 %.

Lenzing Group (Lenzing, Austria), a leading global producer of wood-based specialty fibres, has joined hands with UTEXBEL (Ronse, Belgium), a vertically integrated textile group and leader in Protective Wear and Workwear fabrics, to provide uniform for security personnel of the Belgian Federal Public Service for Justice (FPS Justice), using TENCEL™ branded fibres with REFIBRA™ technology and recycled polyester.

TotalEnergies (Courbevoie, France) and New Hope Energy (Tyler, TX, USA) yesterday announced a commercial agreement under which New Hope Energy will build an advanced recycling plant in Texas to transform end-of-life plastic waste into a recycled feedstock that TotalEnergies will partly purchase and convert into virgin-quality polymers, which can be used for food-grade packaging.