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Image shows a venn diagram of biodegradable and biobased polymers and polymer family groups. Image credit. The association, EuropeanBioplastics

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Plastic Packaging Material That Is Both Sustainable and Biodegradable

ResourceWise: May 6, 2022 6:48:25 AM

Ideally, plastic packaging should be both biodegradable and produced in a sustainable way, but this is rarely the case. Bio-PET is partially...

Image shows the different routes to develop biobased monopropylene glycol

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Biobased Monopropylene Glycol: The Bumpy Road to a Decarbonized World

Jane Denny: Apr 27, 2022 6:28:15 AM

Monopropylene glycol (MPG) – often called simply propylene glycol – is essential to a wide range of products across a variety of industries and...

Image shows the chemical reactions for catalysing succinic acid from petrochemical-based feedstocks as opposed to a biobased route

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Biobased Succinic Acid: Is the Sustainable Route Becoming Economically Viable Once More?

Jane Denny: Apr 13, 2022 3:52:17 PM

A renewable technology hailed as revolutionary in the 2010s may emerge as a choice route to deliver key intermediate chemicals in the future. When...

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Sustainable Routes to Polyurethane

Tecnon OrbiChem: Apr 13, 2022 9:35:30 AM

It could be considered one of the plastics world's most contradictory materials. Notoriously under-recycled due to technical difficulty, polyurethane...

Exponential growth of cellulose staple fibers since the start of the new millennium.

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Cellulosic Fibers - A World of Opportunity

Tecnon OrbiChem: Apr 1, 2022 11:23:00 AM

Worldwide demand for fibers has strongly mirrored GDP for many decades. Having closely monitored markets since 1975, Tecnon OrbiChem predicts a...

Image is a diagramatc representation of a pioneering method for producing ethylene using methane

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A METHANE ROUTE TO ETHYLENE

Tecnon OrbiChem: Apr 1, 2022 8:23:13 AM

Ethylene (C2H4) is a key chemical for producing a huge range of chemicals, polymers and plastics. Much of the world’s C2H4 demand is met via the...

Containers at a shipping port for chemical transport.

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Chemical Industry Forecasts - Long and Short-Term

Tecnon OrbiChem: Apr 1, 2022 8:21:16 AM

Tecnon OrbiChem founder Charles Fryer's predictions for the chemical industry from 2022 onwards. The chemical industry endured many problems in 2020...