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-China – Polyethylene Terephthalate and the prices its chain continue to be weak.

PET Bottle grade export 1,220/1,260 $/ton – PET Bottle grade domestic market 9,700/9,800 yuan/ton – PET Filament grade SD domestic market 9,600/9,750 yuan/ton – PET Filament grade BR domestic market 9,550/9,700 yuan/ton

PTA Taiwan 980/990 $/ton – PTA domestic market 7,200/7,300 yuan/ton – MEG $ 845/855 $/ton – MEG domestic market 7,000/7,150 yuan/ton – PX Korea 1,265/1,275 $/ton

POY 150D/48F  domestic market 10,950/11,100  yuan/ton – DTY 150D/48F  domestic market 12,550/12,650  yuan/ton – PSF domestic market 10,600/10,700  yuan/ton

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-Kazakhstan will start production of titanium dioxide by 2021  

Tenir-Logistic intends to create a chemical-technological complex for the production of special steels and titanium dioxide in the special economic zone Pavlodar, reports Lkmportal .

The construction and equipment of the site will require USD2.3 billion.

Work on the project has been going on for more than 10 years, and by 2018 the company set up pilot production at sites in Tomsk and Novosibirsk, and also developed technologies for obtaining final products – steel, ferroalloys, titanium dioxide , vanadium pentoxide and silicon dioxide.

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-Sidel Group acquires PET Engineering to strengthen and diversify packaging solutions portfolio Sidel Group PET Engineering packaging solutions 

On October 11, the Sidel Group concluded the acquisition of PET Engineering Srl, further expanding the company’s portfolio of packaging solutions.

“With packaging increasingly playing a key role in any marketing mix, we are confident that Sidel and PET Engineering’s complementary strengths in packaging design, qualification and blowing process will bring the Sidel Group more business opportunities while offering customers a diversified choice of partners to materialise their creative requirements,” comments Pavel Shevchuk, Executive Vice President Services, Sidel Group

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-Anellotech announces commercial plant engineering plans Anellotech commercial plant engineering

Sustainable technology company Anellotech confirms significant progress in its Bio-TCatTM technology development program Anellotech commercial plant engineering

The company has begun planning for scale-up design and engineering of a commercial plant with its process development and design partner IFPEN and commercialization, engineering, and licensing partner Axens.

Anellotech is pioneering an innovative manufacturing process to produce cost-competitive renewable chemicals and fuels from non-food biomass.

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-Global Bioenergies reaches 87% of yield target in Isobutene process 

Yield and productivity have reached a threshold meeting the expectations for profitable exploitation of the process at commercial scale

Global Bioenergies announces today that a new milestone has been met in the development of its Isobutene process.

The company announces a yield exceeding 87% of the final target during the complete production phase, at laboratory scale.

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-Avantium and BASF in dispute over Synvina

A disagreement over the timing of investment in a commercial-scale plant for furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) has led to a potentially damaging dispute between Avantium and BASF.

The two companies operate the Synvina joint venture, which is using plant-based materials to produce FDCA and PEF, a potential replacement for the terephthalic acid (TA) used to produce PET.

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-US-China trade dispute to disrupt polyolefins trade

New polyethylene investment volume will find markets in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asian countries

Following the escalation of trade tariff disputes between China and the US, analytical firm Wood Mackenzie Chemicals expects that US polyolefins exports to the Asian country will be negatively impacted by 50 per cent in 2019.

Instead, China will continue to import from the Middle East, South Korea, Thailand and Singapore for its supply. The new polyethylene investment volume will find markets in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asian countries.

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-A Trillion Reasons why Recycling is Getting Easier

There are some staggering facts that highlight the challenge the world is facing in terms of the waste we produce.

The World Bank estimated that in 2012, on average globally, each person generated 1.2kg of waste per day.

Of that waste, only 18 per cent is being recycled, with almost half going to landfill, and the rest litter.

In the developed world we generate twice as much waste per person, and although some countries do significantly better than others at recycling: 60 per cent in the Netherlands and Germany, 45 per cent in the UK.

There is plenty of room for improvement – writes Gillian Ewers, VP marketing at PragmatIC.

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-Brazil’s Bolsonaro: ‘China Is Buying Brazil’

“China isn’t buying in Brazil. China is buying Brazil,” Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing frontrunner in Brazil’s presidential election, said in an Oct. 9 interview with Band TV, referring to the Latin American nation’s top foreign investor and trade partner.

In the interview, Bolsonaro talked about his privatization pledge, promising that he wouldn’t extend privatization to the core business of oil company Petrobras or the power industry.

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-RUDN chemist tested a new nanocatalyst for obtaining hydrogen

A chemist from RUDN was the first to use catalysts with ruthenium nanoparticles to obtain hydrogen under the influence of visible light and UV radiation. In the future, such catalysts may be used for large-scale production of hydrogen fuel under the influence of sunlight. The results of the study were published in Applied Catalysis B: Environmental.

Photochemical reactions are one of the most eco-friendly ways of producing “green fuel”. They don’t consume a lot of energy for heating the raw materials or supporting high pressure levels. To maintain the speed of the reaction one needs only light and photocatalysts. Photocatalysts based on platinum, gold, and palladium are highly efficient in such photochemical reactions as hydrogen extraction from biomass derivatives, such as alcohols. However, these metals are expensive, therefore the scientists are in search of cheaper photocatalysts.

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-Constantia introduces packaging with greater sustainability

Ecolutions reduces carbon footprint, focuses on recycle-ready solutions and decreases environmental impact while protecting products.

In its quest to create environmentally friendly yet cost-effective and functional packaging solutions, Constantia Flexibles developed a new, more sustainable packaging line called Ecolutions that made its debut at PACK EXPO 2018.

Ecolutions meets sustainable requirements, reduces the carbon footprint of packaging, focuses on recyclable solutions and decreases the impact on the environment. In addition to the sustainable characteristics, the packaging solutions have all the properties required to protect the packaged products.

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-Coveris launches fully recyclable PE film for Co-op

In partnership with the Co-op and Freshtime, Coveris has launched a fully recyclable PE film that delivers the same protective, functional and shelf-life benefits as existing non-recyclable solutions.

This marks a major step forward in supporting the packaging manufacturer’s pledge to deliver 100% recyclable packaging by 2025.

Having recently been awarded for “leading the sector” in recyclable plastics through their Project Closed Loop strategy to make 100% of its own-brand packaging recyclable, the Co-op is now even closer to achieving its 2023 target with the launch of a new recyclable PE film across prepared vegetable lines.

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-ReVital Polymers, Pyrowave and Ineos Styrolution partner to launch closed-loop polystyrene recycling consortium

Three companies involved with post-consumer packaging recovery have initiated a strategic partnership to recycle polystyrene (PS) packaging collected in consumer curbside and depot recycling systems as well as other sources.

ReVital Polymers (Sarnia, ON, Canada), a member of the Circular Polymers Group and processor of post-consumer plastics; styrenics manufacturer Ineos Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany); and Pyrowave (Oakville, ON, Canada), a company that has developed a process for making PS recyclable even if it has color additives and food residue, have committed to reducing the amount of plastic waste that ends up in landfills and contaminates the world’s waterways and oceans.

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-First closed-loop recycler converts post-consumer PET into food-grade finished packaging

The first vertically integrated plant for converting PET packaging waste into finished rPET products with properties comparable to those made from virgin PET has opened in Vernon, CA, and more such facilities could be on the way.

The Vernon plant, run by rPlanet Earth, converts bottles, clamshell containers and other packaging waste into food-grade sheet, thermoformed containers and injection-molded preforms for bottles.

The 302,000-sqare-foot facility, which cost more than $100 million, has an annual capacity of 80,000,00 lbs. (36,290 metric tons), and rPlanet Earth plans to add a second bales-to-end product production line to the site within the next two years.

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-Milacron’s Mold-Masters Product Brand to Launch NEW Advanced Thinwall Packaging Hot Runner System – ThinPAK, and Will Have NEW Hot Runner Technologies Featured in the Milacron/iMFLUX Machine Cell at Fakuma 2018

Milacron Holdings Corp. a leading industrial technology company serving the plastics processing industry is pleased to announce their upcoming participation at Fakuma 2018. Fakuma will take place October 16-20th in Friedrichshafen, Germany.

Milacron will be in hall B3 – Booth 3203, displaying its industry-leading technologies including Mold-Masters hot runners and control systems, Milacron injection molding machines, DME mold technology solutions, and industrial supplies as well as TIRAD high precision mold bases.

This year’s Fakuma will see the launch of the Mold-Masters ThinPAK-Series hot runner for thinwall applications and a Mold-Masters hot runner running on the Milacron iMFLUX machine cell, a first for Mold-Masters.

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