CJ Bio, NatureWorks sign letter of intent for long-term cooperation

The Rehau Group will sell its business in Russia to the local management and will withdraw completely from the country.

Norway-based biochemicals company Circa Group AS and Finland’s energy solutions  provider Valmet Oyj have signed a Heads of Agreement to realise and optimise Circa's proprietary Furacell production process at scale within the scope of the ReSolute project.

PLA, or polylactic acid, is a bio-based plastic that is increasingly finding application as a renewable, sustainable alternative to plastics derived from crude oil products.

In the lead-up to K 2022, the German Mechanical Engineering Industry Association, VDMA is conducting a series of interviews with leading businesspersons in the industry, under the title Way2K.

As the pandemic has once again pushed the physical event off the calendar, the organisers of Chinaplas have come up with a new, three-week virtual event for the plastics and rubber industry.

Last week, Orlando, Florida-based PureCycle Technologies announced the publication of its very first Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report.

Plastics Europe, European trade association for plastics manufacturers has today announced the appointment of Marco ten Bruggencate, Commercial Vice President for Packaging and Specialty Plastics EMEA at Dow, as its President, effective immediately.

The Chemours Company, a leader in, among others, titanium technologies, has announced that it has become a participant in the ongoing Remove2Reclaim project.

Design work is now under way on what is being touted as the world's largest pyrolysis plant, a project that has the support of a major petroleum company that will use output to make food-grade polymers.

As plastic packaging requirements continue to evolve in response to new legislation, environmental considerations and changing consumer demand and lifestyle, keeping up can pose a challenge for plastic packaging manufacturers.