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LG Chem proceeds with sustainable materials investments
South Korea-based chemical company LG Chem has been making several news headlines within the past few months as the company announced its intention to invest KRW10 trillion ($8.5 billion) in eco-friendly and high-growth materials by 2025. Over 30 projects including M&As, joint ventures, strategic investments focused on ESG-based business portfolio are currently being reviewed according … Continue reading
More bio-based naphtha production ahead
I can barely keep up with news and capacity announcement on renewable diesel/HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oil) so I’ll just mention two big ones that I came across last week. UPM said last week that it is moving forward with its biofuels growth plans and starts the basic engineering phase of a next-generation biorefinery, which would … Continue reading
ACC released guidance for mass balance certification standards
The American Chemistry Council’s Plastics Division announced a set of principles for mass balance certification standards that will trace and help increase plastics recycling and support markets for the outputs from advanced plastics recycling. A mass balance approach measures the amount of used plastic that enters advanced recycling processes and makes certain that claims of … Continue reading
VIDEO: UPM Biofuels enters the bioplastics market with new partners
Renewable diesel producers such as UPM and Neste are now in the bioplastic arena as more and more of their bio-naphtha is being used as feedstock to produce biomass balanced-based monomers such as ethylene and propylene. (For more on biomass balance, check out my last blog post: VIDEO: BASF’s new biomass-balance paints for automotive ) UPM’s … Continue reading
VIDEO: BASF’s new biomass-balance paints for automotive
The first time the blog has heard about BASF’s integrated biomass-based chemical manufacture approach was in late 2013, and since then, the company has steadily increased its chemicals portfolio under this category. This month, BASF’s Coatings division announced the launch of its new Glasurit® and R-M® refinish paint product lines in Europe for automotive refinishing application. … Continue reading