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Closing the loop: How Clariant is enabling circular plastic

Clarit series and adsorbents. 
© Clariant Séval Schichtel, Sales and Business Development Manager, Ethylene, and Sebastian Lars Löscher, Business Development Manager, Purification, recently sat down with Kristina Morgan, Global Marketing Manager, Petrochemicals, at Clariant, to discuss how we’re enabling a circular economy where plastics are continuously reused rather than ending up in landfills, incinerators, or the environment. This interview explains how Clariant enables the chemical recycling process through its complementary portfolio of adsorbents and hydrogenation catalysts. These technologies work seamlessly together to valorize challenging plastic waste streams, including mixed and contaminated materials, transforming them into virgin-quality feedstocks that integrate directly into existing petrochemical plants, closing the loop and enabling a truly circular plastics economy.

Clariant's FAMAX catalysts deliver outstanding performance at two Yihua formaldehyde plants in China

Milestone achieved: The 100,000 t/a formaldehyde plant in Inner Mongolia, part of Yihua Group's expanding production network, successfully started up in March 2026 — powered by Clariant FAMAX catalysts in partnership with Wuxi Xiyuan Engineering Technology. 
© Yihua GroupClariant, a sustainability-focused specialty chemical company, today announced the successful operation of its FAMAX formaldehyde catalysts at two world-scale production facilities operated by Yihua Group in China. The advanced catalyst technology, integrated with process technology from engineering partner Wuxi Xiyuan Engineering Technology Co., Ltd., is delivering exceptional performance at both the major 100 kt/a formaldehyde plant in Inner Mongolia and the 120 kt/a formaldehyde plant in Hubei province.

Clariant catalysts continue to shrink customer footprints: 45M tons of CO2e avoided in 2025

Clariant enabled customers to avoid 45 million tons of CO2e greenhouse gas emissions in 2025. (Photo created using MidJourney™). 
© ClariantClariant, a sustainability-focused specialty chemical company, today announced that its catalysts had enabled significantly higher emission reductions in 2025 compared to the previous year. Avoided greenhouse gas emissions amounted to 45 million tons of CO2e, 5 million tons higher than in 2024. The emission reductions were made possible by the company's innovative technologies, such as reforming catalysts for producing direct reduced iron (DRI) and nitrous oxide abatement catalysts for nitric acid plants, as well as syngas catalysts for producing green methanol either through electrolytic hydrogen from renewable electricity or from bio-feedstocks. Additionally, Clariant's catalysts for refinery off-gas purification contributed to these avoided emissions, helping refineries and crude-to-chemical complexes reduce their environmental footprint. The DRI process, as one example, has only half of the CO2 intensity compared to conventional steel production.

Clariant launches new CATOFIN 1000 propane dehydrogenation catalyst

CATOFIN 1000: Maximizing operational efficiency through next-generation propane dehydrogenation technology. © ClariantClariant, a sustainability-focused specialty chemical company, today announced the launch of CATOFIN 1000, its next-generation propane dehydrogenation catalyst. Building on the success of the commercially proven CATOFIN 310 Series, the new catalyst delivers improvement in both selectivity and productivity, extended lifetime, and up to 20% lower tar precursors, resulting in significantly reduced fouling. This combination of performance enhancements provides an exceptional value proposition for customers seeking to maximize operational efficiency and returns.

Clariant successfully demonstrates advanced Pyrolysis Oil upgrading technology for circular plastics with Borealis and SINTEF

HDMax: Enabling the circular economy through proven pyoil upgading technology. 
© Clariant Clariant, a sustainability-focused specialty chemical company, today announced the successful completion of a collaborative pilot-scale project with Borealis, a leading provider of advanced and circular polyolefin solutions, and SINTEF, one of Europe's largest independent research organizations. The partnership successfully demonstrated Clariant's pyrolysis oil (pyoil) upgrading technology, marking a significant milestone in advancing circular economy solutions for the plastics industry.

Clariant Zeolites partners with Vertimass to scale-up innovative CADO biofuels technology

Powering sustainable aviation: Clariant and Vertimass scale breakthrough biobased fuel technology with advanced zeolite catalysts. 
(Photo created using MidJourney™)Clariant, a sustainability-focused specialty chemical company, today announced a strategic collaboration with Vertimass LLC aiming to accelerate the development and commercialization of advanced zeolite catalysts for the catalytic conversion of biobased alcohols via Vertimass Consolidated Alcohols Deoxygenation and Oligomerization (CADO) process. The envisaged project combines Vertimass' novel technology with Clariant's six decades of expertise in zeolite catalyst development to advance sustainable processing.