Materials
Materials
Turkish PS producer plans to start up second plant by 2023-end / ABS production set to commence soon
18/09/2023 -
Turkish PS producer plans to start up second plant by 2023-end / ABS production set to commence soonMore than one year behind schedule, Dioki Petrokimya (Ceyhan, Turkey;
Plastics from Thin Air: The Carbon Dioxide-Based Polymers Market
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Big problems call for big ideas. One of the biggest challenges from a wide-angle environmental view is figuring out what to do about carbon dioxide, which accounts for 76% of greenhouse gas (GHG)...
OCSiAl to Establish New Production Facility for Graphene Nanotubes in Serbia
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TAGS: Sustainability / Natural Solutions
OCSiAl to construct European graphene nanotube facility in 2024
15/09/2023 -
Graphen nanotubes manufacturer OCSiAl (Luxembourg) has been granted a construction permit for a nanotube...
Japan Provides Update on Positive List Developments
12/09/2023 -
Japan’s Positive List (PL) of synthetic resins for food utensils, containers, and packaging (UCP) is expected to be fully implemented from June 1, 2025. The public was invited to submit comments...
Using Flies as a Source of Chemicals to Make Bioplastics
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Imagine using insects as a source of chemicals to make plastics that can biodegrade later - with the help of that very same type of bug. That concept is closer to reality than you...
Goodbye solvents: sustainable synthesis and recycling with mechanochemistry
01/09/2023 -
Being both innovative and sustainable in the chemical industry is a real challenge. Can new materials be synthesised without the use of solvents' Ana Mangas, researcher in Mechanochemistry and...
Lummus and Biohydrogen Technologies Establish Partnership to Develop and Deploy Blue Hydrogen Technology
28/08/2023 -
Lummus Technology, a global provider of process technologies and value-driven energy solutions, and Biohydrogen Technologies have announced an agreement to develop and deploy advanced...
Researchers Develop Stretchable Hydrogel to Impart Flexibility & Rigidity in Polymers
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TAGS: Surface Modification Chenfeng Ke, an incoming...
Claussen, Spence named to Rotational Molding Hall of Fame
22/08/2023 -
Two longtime industry executives, Corey Claussen and Alvin Spence, have been elected to the Rotational Molding Hall of Fame. They will be inducted on Sept. 28 at the Association of Rotational...
Conagen and Sumitomo Chemical jointly develop a new era of renewable carbon materials
18/08/2023 -
Conagen, the bio-platform innovator and biomanufacturer, and Sumitomo Chemical, Japan’s leading chemical company,...
Transforming flies into degradable plastics
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Imagine using insects as a source of chemicals to make plastics that can biodegrade later — with the help of that very same type of bug. That concept is closer to reality than you might expect....
A new era of renewable carbon materials
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Conagen (Bedford, MA USA), and Sumitomo Chemical (Tokyo, Japan) have announced to jointly develop p-hydroxystyrene (HS) and its polymer, poly p-hydroxystyrene (PHS), using a combination of...
Researchers Develop a Method to Produce Bio-based Nylon Using Microorganisms
25/07/2023 -
Until now, nylon has been produced from petroleum-based raw materials. However, this is quite harmful to the environment because non-renewable fossil resources are used, a great deal of energy...
Investigadores de la Universidad Shinshu de Japón crean nuevos plásticos estables y fácilmente reciclables por disolución
13/07/2023 -
Participación de micropartículas de polimetilmetracrilato, que se obtiene por polimerización acuosa de monómeros de metilacrilato. Secando el disolvente, se pueden generar films de bajo...
Research team develops process for bio-based nylon
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A research team from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) and the Leipzig University has now developed a process that can produce adipic acid, one of two building blocks of...
New Study Shows the Impact of Seed Type on Final Structure of Polymers
11/07/2023 -
Supramolecular polymers—the versatile, "next-gen" polymers—offer potential applications in a variety of fields. However, achieving precise control of their polymerization requires...
Using Cyanobacteria to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Glucose
06/07/2023 -
The plant-biomass-sugar route dominates the current glucose supply, while it is influenced by multiple parameters, such as plant-cultivation cycles, biomass-collection radius, and...
INN APROBÓ NUEVA NORMA TÉCNICA PARA EL SECTOR DEL PLÁSTICO
06/07/2023 -
El Consejo del Instituto Nacional de Normalización (INN), aprobó una nueva norma técnica para los sistemas de canalización en materiales plásticos para evacuación de aguas residuales (a baja...
