Chemicals
Optimization of H2 Utilization
In its site in Estarreja, BONDALTI carried out a development project “Optimization of H2 Utilization” with a view to the total recovery of H2 generated in one of its production processes, reusing it as raw material in another production p...
PVC Up Cycling - Circular Economy and Zero Waste with the upcycling of waste fro...
The aim of the “PVC UpCycling” project is to look at the passage in the current REDEL company chain, from a linear model to a circular economy model through actions aimed at the Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) of electric cables from a disposal ...
ECLUSE's W2E-powered steam network delivers reliable energy to chemical industry
ECLUSE will connect Indaver’s 1 million tonnes waste-to-energy plants in the Waasland Port/Antwerp Port (Belgium) to nearby industries. Instead of relying on gas-fired boilers to produce steam, these industries will use steam produced from the inci...
Driving sustainable innovations: StyLight
In comparison to conventional materials, continuous fiber-reinforced plastics offer not only a high weight reduction potential, but also a variety of functional advantages. Based on a proprietary, patented process technology, INEOS Styrolution develo...
Twence reuse of CO2 in sodium bicarbonate production
In this project Twence is demonstrating an innovative technology for re-using carbon dioxide (CO2) by capturing the CO2 from the flue gases of the waste to energy (WTE) plant and using it for the production of sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) as a result ...
The Carbon2Chem® project
thyssenkrupp is a diversified industrial company thatemploys around 158,000 people in 79 countries. Our engineering expertise has been evolving for more than 200 years. This is why we are playing a leading role in developing innovative solutions to g...
TENCEL™ Lyocell fibers with REFIBRA™ technology from Lenzing
TENCEL™ fibers with REFIBRA™ technology have been introduced to the market in 2017. TENCEL™ lyocell with REFIBRA™ Technology is the first commercially available cellulosic fibre featuring chemical recycled content, certified with Recycled Con...
Albemarle's long-lasting catalysts: cleaner fuels for the future
The oil refining industry uses hydroprocessing catalysts (HPC) to remove over 99% of contaminants, such as nitrogen and sulfur from fuel oils, contributing to cleaner and more efficient final use fuels. These catalysts typically contain valuable meta...
3M-Up-cycling: going beyond recycling
Perfluorinated polymers are materials with unique strength and durability. Although we are not always aware of it, they play a crucial role in many daily products and services: coating in pans and bakeware, building materials, automobiles, telecommun...
VinylPlus®: the Voluntary Commitment to Sustainable Development by the European...
VinylPlus® is the renewed ten-year Voluntary Commitment to Sustainable Development by the European PVC industry. The commitment was developed through dialogue with stakeholders, including industry, NGOs, regulators, civil society, and PVC users. It ...
Plastics enable paper recycling - BASF
Paper packaging for food is often derived from recycled paper. Recycled paper may contain substances which are potentially harmful to humans, such as mineral oil residues originally present in printing inks. A study supported by the German Federal Of...
AkzoNobel's Waste2Chemistry: a new circular value chain
As concern about the scarcity of energy and raw materials continues to grow, AkzoNobel is among a group of companies looking to use waste as a feedstock to make chemicals. The project began in 2014 as a collaboration between AkzoNobel, several other ...
Sustainable Shipping by AkzoNobel
Shipping is by far the world’s most efficient form of transport but, because more than 85% of the world’s traded goods travel by sea, it still has a major environmental impact. Shipping is a big sector; the approximately 100,000 ships account for...
Quality Circular Polymers; an innovative solution to provide secondary materials
QCP was founded in April 2014 of which SUEZ is a partner. QCP is located in Chemelot industrial park in Sittard-Geleen (Netherlands), a strategic location in terms of polymers research, development and production of Polymers. At the heart of Western ...
Covestro's RE-Salt initiative: Recycling of industrial salty process water
In many industrial processes, large amounts of waste water, containing highly diluted common table salt (5-10%) are released into rivers, becoming a burden to the ecosystem, especially in terms of drinking water production. On the other hand, salt (N...
Polystyrene Loop: Demonstrating the economic and technical viability of closed-l...
Polystyrene (PS) Foam is used for a broad range of products and applications and predominantly used as insulation in the construction sector. Until 2015, a large portion of the PS Foam used for insulation included the flame-retardant HBCDD. In the Eu...
Clariant's sunliquid process for converting agricultural residues into climate-f...
The sunliquid® process developed by Clariant meets all the requirements of a technically and economically efficient, innovative process for converting agricultural residues into climate-friendly advanced biofuel. Using process-integrated enzyme prod...
Fortum Ekokem's Integrated Circular Economy village in Finland
A combination of waste sorting and recycling facilities which aims to increase the recycling and recovery rate of waste operates in Riihimäki, Finland. This unity is called the Circular Economy Village. It consists of a sorting facility of mixed was...
Polski Koncern's by-products for chemicals and refineries
ORLEN Group Companies located in Plock are involved in materials recovery and their further reprocessing in order to obtain valuable materials for other purposes. It increases the efficiency of processes, helps to protect natural resources, and reduc...
Kemira's industrial symbiosis in Sweden
Industry Park of Sweden (IPOS) is an industrial park owned and operated by Kemira in Helsingborg, Sweden. The business idea of IPOS is industrial symbiosis. In other words, by innovative resource co-operations create added value to reduce costs and e...
Solvay's Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) reuse program
Sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) must be recovered and recycled Solvay Fluor offers a worldwide recycling service for SF6 in Bad Wimpfen (Germany) and in Onsan (South Korea). The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has recognised ...
BASF: Biodiesel from cooking oil
Over the last few years, biodiesel (the production of fuel from renewable raw material or waste) has become a real alternative to conventional fuels. Biodiesel is made, among other things, from cooking oils and animal fats. Catalysts are used to help...
HARRPA's Crude Tall Oil Biorefineries
Crude Tall Oil (CTO) is a renewable oily mixture of natural chemicals with valuable functional groups. CTO is obtained from coniferous wood as a by-product of forest industry’s pulping process, thus companies from forest and chemical industry w...
Covestro's reuse of CO2 in the plastics production
Covestro has developed an innovative technology that allows using CO2 as raw material for the production of chemical building blocks for high-quality plastics. The most widely known of the numerous possible applications for these building blocks, cal...