Chemists have developed a catalytic process that turns the largest component of today's plastic waste stream, polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that are ...

MIDLAND, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Shandong Shenda Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. (Shenda), has selected UNIPOL™ Polypropylene Process Technology from The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) for its new 200 KTA ...

Water used to wash recycling materials in the study became progressively darker as it was reused. Photo courtesy of Greg ...

COLUMBIA, Md., Nov. 09, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- W. R. Grace & Co. (NYSE:GRA), the leading independent supplier of polyolefin catalyst technology and polypropylene (PP) process technology, has ...

PARAMUS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Koch Modular Process Systems, LLC (Koch Modular), a market leading provider of engineered and fabricated modular reaction and mass transfer systems, today announced ...

Soon, however, it may be possible to recover high-grade polypropylene from synthetic carpets that would otherwise just end up in the dump. The new recycling process is being developed by scientists at ...

A new process to recycle existing plastics indefinitely and reduce the flood of plastics into landfills is being developed by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. From sandwich bags ...

COLUMBIA, Md., Oct. 26, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- W. R. Grace & Co. (NYSE:GRA), the leading independent supplier of polyolefin catalyst technology and polypropylene (PP) process technology, has ...

COLUMBIA, Md., Feb. 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- W. R. Grace & Co. (Grace), the world’s leading independent supplier of polyolefin catalyst technology and polypropylene (PP) process technology, today ...

BPCL expands its license arrangements with Grace, including supply of acclaimed and non-phthalate CONSISTA(R) catalysts, to add 950 kilotons of capacity at the Kochi and Bina refineries COLUMBIA, Md., ...

Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics ...