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-POLYONE LAUNCHES NEW ACETALDEHYDE PROCESS AID TO ENHANCE RPET PROCESSABILITY
PolyOne today launched ColorMatrix™ AAzure™ Acetaldehyde Control Additive, a process aid for PET and recycled PET (rPET) preforms with added acetaldehyde (AA) control capabilities. It is a patented liquid formulation that can reduce AA by up to 80 percent in the preform, helping to counter off-taste in bottled contents.
The increased use of rPET in PET bottles can lead to increased AA levels, but can also compromise bottle mechanical strength and create blowouts, both of which reduce productivity and increase scrap rates.
This technology helps to overcome these issues so that higher levels of rPET can be used, and it can be combined with recycle-friendly toners to offset the yellowing common with increased rPET content. One final benefit is a reduction in the energy required to heat preforms, which fosters roughly 25 percent lower carbon emissions.
-AGILYX AND TECHNIPFMC TO COLLABORATE ON PATHWAYS FOR POLYSTYRENE RE-USE
Agilyx Corp. (Tigard, Ore.) announced an exclusive collaboration with TechnipFMC to jointly develop a process to purify Agilyx Styrene Oil to high-purity styrene. This collaboration has been the result of over a year of evaluation, and their desire to expand their energy transition and circular economy offerings. Agilyx also recently announced partnerships with Toyo in Japan and Lucite International, a group company of Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. Petrochemicals Enzymes Recycling Biobased
-OXO Biodegradable Vs Compostable Plastics
Let’s look at the similarities and differences between OXO biodegradable (Oxo-bio) and compostable plastics.
The purpose of this article is not to say which technology works better, but to understand both technologies better by comparing them. Compostable plastic is a big family so I may reduce the scope to PLA and PBAT when needed.
Applications
OXO-bio plastics and compostable plastics such as PLA and PBAT can be used for similar applications such as bags, packaging and mulch films.
Carbon origin
Most compostable plastics are biobased (PLA, PHA, PBS, PBAF). However, some are fossil-based such as PBAT and PCL. OXO-bio plastics are usually fossil-based but the masterbatch can be mixed with bio-based polymers such as Bio-PE for instance.
Nature
OXO-bio is not a plastic resin on itself. It’s a catalyst to reduce the molecular weight of ordinary PE and PP to make them biodegradable.Petrochemicals Enzymes Recycling Biobased
Compostable plastics are plastics (resins) on their own and it’s possible to blend (mix) them with other compostable plastics (resins). PBAT and PLA can be blended together, and both can be blended with starch for instance.
-Demand for resins in Brazil up 3% on year in Q1 2020 – Braskem
Demand for resins in Brazil in the first quarter of 2020 increased 3% year on year to 1.40 million mt and 7% quarter on quarter, reported S&P Global with reference to Brazilian petrochemical producer Braskem’s statement earlier this month.
Braskem said its crackers operated at a capacity utilization rate of 81%, up 3 percentage points quarter on quarter. Compared with Q1 2019, capacity utilization increased by 3 percentage points, Braskem said June 3.
The company’s resin (polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP) and PVC) sales in the Brazilian market totaled 882,000 mt, up 0.5% year on year and similar quarter on quarter.Petrochemicals Enzymes Recycling Biobased
“Market share has been stable or very similar to the past quarters,” Chief Financial Officer Pedro van Langendonck Teixeira de Freitas said June 3. “Braskem sells at an import parity in Brazil, which is part of our strategy. We adjust the prices to accommodate or to reflect prices with international prices and exchange rate,” Freitas said.
As a branch of AKRO-PLASTIC GmbH, BIO-FED is the specialist for innovative and application-oriented biocompounds.
The product portfolio under the trade name M·VERA is constantly being expanded with new products. Petrochemicals Enzymes Recycling Biobased
Depending on the requirements profile, these compounds are either biodegradable in various environments or suitable for long-term use – and completely or partially made from renewable raw materials.
-Assets of closed Canadian film recycler acquired
A packaging producer purchased the assets of film recycling company Enviroplast and will use the equipment to supply itself with recycled pellets.
Montreal-based TC Transcontinental on June 16 announced its acquisition of the assets of Enviroplast, a reclaimer with facilities in Quebec and Ontario. The company processed post-industrial and post-consumer LDPE at its two Canadian facilities.
TC Transcontinental produces flexible plastic packaging, and the company framed its recent purchase as a way for the company to incorporate recycled plastic into its packaging products. In a release, the company said the acquisition is “part of our goal to vertically integrate the recycling of plastics in our packaging production chain” throughout North America and Latin America. Petrochemicals Enzymes Recycling Biobased
– Neste and Jokey joined forces to develop rigid packaging from renewable materials
Neste’s headquarter in Espoo, Finland
Neste and Jokey, a leading international manufacturer of rigid plastic packaging, started collaborating with a target to develop the market for rigid packaging from sustainable renewable and recycled materials for food and non-food applications.
By promoting the use of more sustainable materials in packaging, such as those produced with Neste’s hiqh-quality drop-in hydrocarbons produced from renewable and recycled raw materials, the partners wish to help other companies using such rigid plastic packaging to meet their materials-related sustainability targets.
The joint aim of Neste and Jokey is to work towards a future with an increasing share of renewable and recycled materials and a plastics economy built upon solid circular value chains. Petrochemicals Enzymes Recycling Biobased
The first conference already hit the mark, the second will go one step further! The focus will be on strategies, markets, technologies and sustainability – particularly on alternative cellulose feedstocks in order to reduce the demand for virgin cellulose, even as demand for cellulose fibre will in total further increase. 300 participants and 30 exhibitors are expected. Petrochemicals Enzymes Recycling Biobased
2nd International Conference on Cellulose Fibres will be all about the fastest growing fibre group in textiles, the largest investment sector in the bio-based economy and the solution for avoiding microplastics from textile washing.
With 210 participants and 15 exhibitors from 26 different countries, the 1st International Conference on Cellulose Fibres in February 2020 was a great success and exceeded all expectations. Michael Carus, CEO of nova-institute and initiator of the conference stated: “The first conference on cellulose fibres hit the mark. We have given the growing industry an ideal platform for exchange and networking. Due to the extremely positive feedback, we believe that we will be able to attract even more experts from the cellulose fibre sector for the second event.”
-Invista Victoria ADN retrofit on target for early 2021 startup
Invista says the USD250 million retrofit of its Victoria, Texas, adiponitrile (ADN) unit remains on schedule, with completion slated for early 2021, said Chemweek.
“We anticipate all pre-turnaround construction will be completed later this year, and the final tie-ins are to be installed during a regularly scheduled maintenance outage in early 2021 with additional ADN coming online at that time,” says a statement from the company. Petrochemicals Enzymes Recycling Biobased
The retrofit, announced in 2017, will allow the Victoria facility to employ a new Invista process that provides higher ADN product yields while lowering energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and capital intensity than the current process. First scaled up at Invista’s Orange, Texas, facility, the technology has also been deployed at the Chalampe, France, site of Butachimie, Invista’s joint venture with BASF, and it will be implemented in Invista’s new 400,000 metric tons/year ADN project in Shanghai, China, which broke ground earlier this month.
ADN, a key feedstock for nylon-6,6, has been tight in recent years. Three producers—Invista, Ascend, and Asahi Kasei—control the technology used to produce it at commercial scale.
-Asia’s petrochemical trade slows ahead of holiday in China
Asia’s petrochemical trade mostly slowed down ahead of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday in China on 25-27 June, with sentiment in key feedstock markets also weighed by the recent decline in crude oil prices.
Market players in China retreated from the market early in the week ahead of the holiday, with discussions in the butadiene (BD), benzene and styrene monomer (SM) markets remaining thin. Petrochemicals Enzymes Recycling Biobased
Sentiment was further weighed by the weakness in international crude markets. Oil prices extended losses seen in the previous session on Thursday amid worries over a resurgence in global coronavirus
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