Mitsui Chemicals has started manufacturing and selling chemicals and plastics derived from chemical recycling by mass balance method, using pyrolysis…...
Materials
Eneos Material Raises Prices of Elastomers and Latex
Eneos Material announced on March 22 that it will raise the prices of elastomer and latex products for deliveries from…...
Arlanxeo to Build HNBR Plant in China
Arlanxeo announced on February 29 plans to build a hydrogenated nitrile butadiene rubber (HNBR) plant in Changzhou, China. The plant…...
Synthetic Rubber Production Down 16% in 2023
Synthetic rubber production for 2023 totaled 1,158,183 tons, down 16.0% from the previous year, according to a report by the…...
Michelin Produces France’s First Biomass-derived Butadiene
Michelin, IFP Energies nouvelles, and Axens have opened France’s first industrial-scale prototype facility to produce butadiene derived from biomass at…...
Evonik to Increase Wet Silica Production Capacity in North America
Evonik will increase wet silica production capacity by 50% at its U.S. plant in Charleston, South Carolina, to meet growing…...

