ethylene

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Green PE coming soon in Thailand

SCG Chemicals Public Company Limited (SCGC), one of the largest integrated petrochemical companies in Thailand, finalized its planned joint venture agreement with Braskem to produce sugar-based ethylene with an annual capacity of 200,000 tons. The bio-based ethylene will mostly be consumed for the production of polyethylene (PE) under Braskem’s I’m Green™ brand. The project will … Continue reading »

Dow is back in bio-based ethylene action

So I had a presentation last Wednesday at the Renewable Materials Conference in Germany, and in one of my slides, I talked about “The Force”. I did not realize how really strong the Force is until I heard this news from Dow Chemical today announcing their supply agreement with New Energy Blue for bio-based ethylene … Continue reading »

Braskem mulls bio-PP plant in the USA

Braskem announced this month that it is evaluating the possibility of producing physically segregated bio-based polypropylene plastics using bioethanol feedstock. Braskem is also exploring partnership opportunities for this project with several clients, brand owners and suppliers. The press release indicated that this project will be located in the USA, where ethanol supply and infrastructure are … Continue reading »

Renewable ethylene update

Hello blog followers. I was unable to blog until now due to very tight schedules and deadlines after my two-week holiday in September. We published our October Bio-Materials report last Tuesday, and I just want to share some interesting news from LanzaTech that I included in the report. The company has been busy churning out … Continue reading »

lululemon invests in renewable materials

US athletic apparel company lululemon Athletica Inc. has been very busy these past two months partnering all the way up in the company’s raw material supply chain.  The company released its first Impact Agenda in October last year with a goal to make 100% of its products from sustainable materials by 2030.  By 2025, lululemon … Continue reading »

Indorama Ventures to buy Brazil-based Oxiteno

Indorama announced on Monday that it will acquire Oxiteno, the chemical subsidiary of Brazilian fuel company Ultrapar Participacoes SA, for $1.3 billion, subject to adjustment and closing, with a deferred payment of $150 million in 2024. The transaction is expected to close in Q1 2022. Oxiteno is an interesting acquisition for Thailand-based Indorama Ventures not … Continue reading »

PNNL offers Special Exploratory License Agreement 

From time to time, I covered several R&D news coming from the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). One of these was the partnership between LanzaTech and PNNL on their ethanol-to-fuel technology R&D, which I believed, started in 2010. PNNL also has a chemocatalytic technology to convert ethanol to butadiene in a … Continue reading »

Braskem Green PE 101

I think I’ve mentioned before that I like posting videos on the blog. Here is another one from Braskem explaining the production and sustainability of its I’m Green sugarcane-based polyethylene plastic. The company has been heavily promoting the bio-based plastic in the US despite challenges of low crude oil (hence low petro plastics) prices. Braskem … Continue reading »

Siluria partners with Linde on ethylene tech

Siluria Technologies and The Linde Group have entered into a collaboration agreement based on Siluria’s oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) technology, which catalytically converts methane directly to ethylene. The companies have formed joint teams, which will fully integrate the companies’ respective technologies and collaborate through the final scale-up and demonstration of the OCM technology at the … Continue reading »

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