Indaver and INEOS Styrolution: project to demonstrate production of ABS plastic from recycled feedstock receives funding by the European Union

INEOS StyrolutionIndaver, a leader in sustainable waste management, and INEOS Styrolution, global leader in styrenics, are set to team up as technology partners in a project funded by the EU LIFE programme, the European Union’s funding instrument for the environment and resource efficiency. The project, which is planned for a duration of four years, will demonstrate the production of ABS based on recycled feedstock.

SONGWON further strengthens its ongoing commitment to China’s coatings industry

SONGWON further strengthens its ongoing commitment to China’s coatings industry (Photo: Songwon Industrial Co., Ltd.)Over the past year, SONGWON Industrial Group www.songwon.com, the 2nd largest manufacturer of polymer stabilizers in the world, has continued to strengthen its commitment to the coatings industry in China. In order to better serve customers, SONGWON has steadily built up an extensive network of highly competent and experienced distributors throughout China to expand and promote its offering to the region’s Coatings market.

Avient ColorForward Experts Predict Pandemic Likely to Influence Color Preferences, Even in 2022

Avient ColorForward™ experts predict pandemic likely to influence color preferences, even in 2022.
(Photo Avient, AVIPR006)Avient Corporation, a premier provider of specialized and sustainable material solutions and services, today announced that Avient ColorWorks has launched ColorForward 2022. This 16th edition of the annual color forecasting guide for the plastics industry marks its debut within Avient, which was formed this year from legacy businesses PolyOne and Clariant Masterbatch.

SABIC’s certified circular PP copolymer selected for Unilever’s Knorr® bouillon powder containers produced by Greiner Packaging

SABIC has been collaborating with Unilever and Greiner Packaging in the development of an innovative new Knorr® bouillon container using SABIC® PP FLOWPACT FPC45 certified circular impact polypropylene (PP) from SABIC’s TRUCIRCLE™ portfolio. (Photo copyright: Greiner Packaging)SABIC, a global leader in the chemicals industry, today announced that the company has been collaborating with Unilever and Greiner Packaging in the development of an innovative new Knorr® bouillon container using SABIC® PP FLOWPACT FPC45 certified circular impact polypropylene (PP) from its TRUCIRCLE™ portfolio.

Clariant’s MegaMax® 800 catalyst set production record at Baofeng Energy’s methanol plant

Ningxia Baofeng Energy Plant Zone. (Photo: Clariant)Clariant’s methanol synthesis catalyst, MegaMax 800, has demonstrated its excellent performance at the methanol synthesis plant in the

Bold, beautiful and perfect for blocking: Clariant’s “New Freedom” Decorative Color Trends for 2021

Wabi-Sabi, with soft violet undertones, is an imperfect gray that can be combined perfectly with any other color. It is Clariant’s Decorative Trend Color of the Year 2021. 
(Photo: Clariant)As 2020 has seen us all spending more time in our homes, there has been a huge growth of interest in decorating and re-imagining how we want our living, and now working, environments to look and feel. To help us make the most of our spaces, Clariant’s latest ‘New Freedom’ Decorative Color Trends 2021, is full of creative colors to capture our imaginations.

Taking AIM on single-use plastics: metal 3D printed tooling solution designed to change the world… one paper cup at a time

3D printed tooling solution.
(Photo: AIM Sweden, GEADPR046)
As pulp and paper manufacturers bid to replace single-use plastic packaging to help clean up our planet, the team at AIM Sweden AB (AIM), the commercial spin-off from the Mid Sweden University, has developed new methods for modelling, as well as 3D printing an entirely new tooling concept that is currently being introduced in the manufacture of molded paper food and drink containers.

Affix Labs, Waste2Wear and Logonet join forces and donate Eco-Friendly, Insect Repellent ‘Uniforms of the Future’ to Jane Goodall Institute on its 60th Anniversary

Affix Labs, Waste2Wear and Logonet join forces and donate Eco-Friendly, Insect Repellent ‘Uniforms of the Future’ to Jane Goodall Institute on its 60th Anniversary. (Photo © 2020 by AFFIX Labs)Environmentally friendly and insect repellent – these are the two key features of a high-tech new uniform developed in a partnership between pioneering textile innovators Affix Labs, with its Repeltec technology, Waste2Wear and Logonet. The uniform has been designed to commemorate 60 years of ground-breaking research by the legendary primatologist Jane Goodall and the hard work carried out by the scientists and rangers at the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) in Gombe, Tanzania.