Most of the 360-billion-plus metric tons of plastic manufactured each year isn’t recycled. Some of that’s due to laziness—in the U.S., where plastic bottles can be easily recycled almost everywhere, ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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., ...

COLUMBIA, Md., Aug. 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- W. R. Grace & Co. (NYSE:GRA), the leading independent supplier of polyolefin catalyst technology and polypropylene (PP) process technology, has ...

Packaging producer Berry says it will break ground in September on a new polypropylene (PP) recycling facility in Leamington, United Kingdom, that it says will produce food-grade materials with a ...