"If loss rates can be kept to one percent or less, there is potential for the costs of the process to rival those of producing new polypropylene," says Fraunhofer researcher Maike Illner. Plans call ...

A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics that dominate the waste stream today and turn them into hydrocarbon building blocks for new plastics. The catalytic process, developed at the ...

Attempts in the past have tried adding plastic scrap to traditional building products, but shredding the material and dumping it into concrete or asphalt does not work in most applications because ...

Polysmart Packaging Limited, one of Nigeria’s leading plastic recyclers, has announced a $60 million expansion to construct ...

Resynergi is awaiting approval of an air quality permit for its plastic processing plant in SOMO village, which would melt plastic into oil. Residents are concerned about the facility's proximity to a ...

11 March 2006 AHVAZ - The catalyst paste was injected into the polypropylene unit of the Marun Petrochemical Plant as the final part of a pilot project before the new unit comes on stream.As part of ...

BPCL expands its license arrangements with Grace, including supply of acclaimed and non-phthalate CONSISTA(R) catalysts, to add 950 kilotons of capacity at the Kochi and Bina refineries COLUMBIA, Md., ...

PARAMUS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Koch Modular Process Systems, LLC (Koch Modular) announced that on October 7 th, it has been awarded by PureCycle Technologies, LLC (“PureCycle”) the construction of ...

Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics ...