Scientists develop artificial ‘worm gut’ to break down plastics

Hopes for a nature-inspired way to tackle global plastic pollution

13-Feb-2024 - By feeding worms with plastics and cultivating microbes found in their guts, researchers from NTU’s School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) have demonstrated a new method to accelerate plastic ...

Bringing custom microbes to the business of recycling plastic

Two-step chemical and biological process approach turns mixed plastic waste into valuable new materials

26-Oct-2022 - Scientists working on a solution for plastic waste have developed a two-step chemical and biological process to break down and upcycle mixed plastics into valuable bioproducts. The project, which involves multiple institutions, draws on synthetic biology expertise at the Department of Energy’s ...

3-D printing breakthrough for lightweight syntactic foams could help submarines dive deeper

09-Feb-2018 - A team of materials scientists at NYU Tandon School of Engineering have developed the first process to 3D print components of syntactic foam, extremely strong and lightweight composites used in vehicles, airplanes, and ships. Their breakthrough holds particular promise for submarines because it ...

Strong Figures Ceresana Analyzes the Global Market for Polyethylene - HDPE

23-Aug-2017 - High-density polyethylene (HDPE) is the type of polyethylene offering the highest rigidity and least flexibility. The rigid and slightly hard plastic is highly suitable for a broad range of applications such as rigid containers and tubes as well as a variety of everyday household goods such as ...

INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA has acquired WL Plastics

03-Nov-2016 - INEOS O&P USA has today announced it has acquired 100% of the shares of WLP Holding Corp., a high density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe manufacturers in North America. The business is headquartered in Fort Worth, TX with production facilities in Kentucky, South Dakota, Utah, Texas, and Wyoming. A ...

HDPE plastics on growth course: Ceresana presents third market report on high-density polyethylene

05-Mar-2015 - Milk bottles, water pipes, films or fireworks: High-density polyethylene (HDPE) is used for a wide range of products. The versatile plastic serves for example for the production of packaging and hollow bodies of all kinds, household goods but also technical parts and construction products. "In ...

Ethylene Market in Transition: Ceresana Analyzes World Market for the Most Important Basic Chemical

07-Nov-2014 - Ethylene is the by far most important raw material in the petrochemical industry. About 130 million tonnes of ethylene were processed worldwide in 2013. Direct applications include, among others, the three polyethylene plastics HDPE, LLDPE, and LDPE as well as petrochemical intermediates, which ...

Hyundai Engineering and Turkmengas select INEOS Technologies' process for petrochemical complex

12-Jun-2014 - INEOS Technologies announces that it has licensed its Innovene™ S process to Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd. for the Turkmengas new greenfield world-scale petrochemical complex in the Balkan Region of Turkmenistan. The contract for construction of the gas chemical complex in Turkmenistan, ...

INEOS and Sasol reach final investment decision on high density polyethylene joint venture.

The 50/50 Joint Venture will build a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plant in LaPorte, Texas

11-Jun-2014 - INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA and Sasol Chemicals North America LLC have announced that they have reached final investment decision to form a joint venture to build a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plant in LaPorte, Texas. The 50/50 joint venture will produce 470 kilotons per annum of bimodal ...

Market study: Polyethylene - HDPE

12-Mar-2013 - High-density polyethylene (HDPE) is a highly versatile type of plastic. This becomes apparent in the broad portfolio of products that ranges from food packaging, bottles, cosmetics, care products and household goods to technical parts and products for the construction sector. Ceresana expects ...