University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and University of California, Santa Barbara researchers teamed with Dow to develop a breakthrough process to transform the most widely produced plastic — ...

QUINCY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Myriant Corporation announced today that it has made substantial progress towards the production of cost-competitive bio-acrylic acid made from renewable feedstocks.

A global processing company identifies plant optimization applications with advanced process control software and finds immediate return on investment. Recent global consumer economic numbers show ...

Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building blocks and turned into new plastics with all the properties of virgin material. There are hurdles still to overcome, but the new ...

PVC as a polymer material is ubiquitous. It is, in fact, the third most used resin behind polyethylene and polypropylene and, therefore, according to Jason Lyons, R&D Manager of polymer additives at ...

Dublin, March 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Thermoforming Plastic Market by Product (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene, Biodegradable Polymers, Polyethylene), Material Type (Aluminum, Paper & ...

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, MINNEAPOLIS and COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Aug. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BASF, Cargill and Novozymes have signed an agreement to develop technologies to produce acrylic acid from ...

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

Three giants in chemicals, agricultural products, and industrial enzymes have partnered to commercialize a biological route to acrylic acid. BASF is the world’s largest producer of acrylic acid. It ...