19 December 202214 December 2022Air Liquide, Fluxys Belgium and Port of Antwerp-Bruges awarded EU funding for building the Antwerp@C CO2 Export HubThe project, named “Antwerp@C CO2 Export Hub”, is set up as an open-access infrastructure to transport, liquefy and load CO2 onto ships for onward permanent offshore storage
15 November 202210 November 2022INEOS signs agreement with Plastic Energy for its largest plant to produce 100,000 tonnes of raw materials from plastic wasteThe recycled material has already been successfully converted into virgin-quality polymer through the INEOS cracker at Köln, Germany, and used by selected customers and brands
25 July 202219 July 2022Circular Economy: Beyond recycle, reuse & reduceWithin the chemical supply chain, the concept of a circular economy is growing in significance as Businesses are increasingly promoting green credentials to eco-conscious consumers
29 June 202222 June 2022Chemical recycling: Towards a circular economyFor most polymers the only possible approach is to break down the polymer chain through pyrolysis, which releases either monomers, such as ethylene, or light hydrocarbons like naphtha, to remake the polymers
27 June 202220 June 2022INEOS Phenol launches new lower carbon bio product line to be called INVIRIDIS for its phenol acetone and alphamethylstyrene businessManufactured at the INEOS Phenol sites in Gladbeck Germany and Antwerp Belgium, INVIRIDIS is made by using bio-attributed cumene, which enables the replacement of fossil fuel resources
4 May 20224 May 2022 Next Week: Renewable Materials Conference, 10-12 May, Cologne (Germany) – all information hereList of participants, panel discussions, exhibitors and the nominations for the Renewable Material of The Year 2022 are launched
28 April 202226 April 2022McDonald’s Tests Circular Clear Cups Sourced From Recycled and Biobased Materials, Including Used Cooking OilAlong with its partners Pactiv Evergreen, INEOS, Neste, and LyondellBasell, the company will use a mass-balance approach to produce a recyclable solution
31 August 20216 April 2022Regulation, consumer demand drive bionaphtha use in fuels, petchemsOver the next three to five years, production could grow to anywhere between 500,000 mt/year and multiple millions of metric tons per year, depending on demand
2 June 202116 June 2021INEOS and LACTEL partner to produce the world’s first HDPE Milk Bottles from advanced recyclingLACTEL is the first dairy brand to explore a solution for UHT milk bottles produced with circular polyethylene, derived from post-consumer recycled material
18 May 20219 September 2021Advanced Plastic Recycling from INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA Receives ISCC PLUS CertificationAdvanced recycling allows key raw materials ethylene and propylene to be manufactured from mixed plastic waste
9 March 20219 September 2021 Renewable Materials Conference 2021 – A unique concept that covers all renewable materials solutions in one eventProgram already available – application period for the innovation award “Renewable Material of the Year 2021” still open! The conference will take place as an online event.
3 March 20219 September 2021 Renewable Materials Conference 2021 – A unique concept that covers all renewable materials solutions in one eventAlmost final program already available – application period for the innovation award “Renewable Material of the Year” still open! The conference will take place as an online event.
1 March 20219 September 2021Tetra Pak introduces certified recycled polymersFirst company in the food and beverage packaging industry to be awarded the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) Advanced Products certification
20 July 20209 September 2021INEOS to acquire BP’s global aromatics & acetyls businessAromatics provides the building blocks for the global polyester industry, key to fibres, films and packaging. Acetyls support a wide range of downstream industries in food flavouring and preservation, pharmaceuticals, paints, adhesives and packaging
16 July 20209 September 2021Carbon capture and reuse gain steamUS government and European firms invest in CO₂ capture projects
15 May 20209 September 2021Hafen von Antwerpen: Konsortium treibt Projekt für Power-to-Methanol voranGeplante Demonstrationsanlage soll 8.000 tpa grünes Methanol produzieren und dabei ebenso viel an Treibhausgasen einsparen
INOVYN plays role in ambitious ‘Power to Methanol’ project in AntwerpA planned industrial-scale demonstration unit would produce 8,000tpa of sustainable methanol and would save at least 8,000tpa of CO2 emissions every year
8 May 202031 December 2020INEOS and PLASTIC ENERGY to collaborate on new advanced plastic recycling facilityAdvanced recycling takes waste plastic and re-makes this into new high-quality polymer, replacing raw materials derived from oil-based products
INEOS und PLASTIC ENERGY planen gemeinsamen Bau einer neuen Anlage für modernes KunststoffrecyclingBei diesem fortschrittlichen Recycling werden Kunststoffabfälle in neue hochwertige Polymere umgewandelt und damit erdölbasierte Rohstoffe ersetzt
11 March 20207 March 2020Nouryon and INEOS Nitriles break ground on new facilities in GermanyINEOS will operate and maintain the new facilities as well as provide key raw materials
18 February 202017 February 2020INEOS and UPM Biofuels announce supply agreement for renewable raw materials to make plasticINEOS plans to use UPM BioVerno, a sustainable raw material from a renewable residue of wood pulp processing, to produce bio-attributed polyolefins
6 November 20197 November 2019INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe announces range of Bio-attributed Olefins and PolyolefinsThe INEOS bio-attributed polyolefins can be made with 100% substitution of bio-feedstock and provide more than 100% Greenhouse Gas savings (GHG)
17 April 201912 April 2019How to convert wheat straw waste into green chemicalsAn EU initiative has produced renewable bio-isobutene for use in various applications ranging from cosmetics to fuels
15 February 201912 February 2019First production of isobutene from wheat straw at demo scaleAim of the project is a new value chain combining Global Bioenergies bio-Isobutene process with technologies developed by Clariant and INEOS
21 February 201720 February 2017Norner goes green. 2,5 MEUR grant to research on green packaging for the futureLooking for circular solutions: Norwegians fund green packaging project
9 December 20167 December 2016INEOS Compounds announced today that it has entered into a licence agreement with Resysta International GmbHThe Resysta ARF will initially be manufactured at the INEOS Compounds site in Sins, Switzerland, to respond to the growing demand from European customers
INEOS Compounds gab heute den Abschluss eines Lizenzvertrags mit der Resysta International GmbH bekanntResysta ARF soll am INEOS Compounds-Standort in der Schweiz hergestellt werden, um wachsender Europäischer Nachfrage zu begegnen
17 June 201615 June 2016Synthetic Biology – The next renewables frontier?More and more interests focusing on microbial genome engineering tools for chemicals production
29 October 201526 October 2015Butanol and The Case of a Global Sustainable SocietyTo Be, or Not to Be… By Dr Kapil S Lokare, Special to The Digest
25 September 201524 September 2015Neue Marktstudie zum europäischen KunststoffmarktVon Standardprodukten über technische Hochleistungskunststoffe bis zu Biokunststoffen: Ceresana untersucht den gesamten europäischen Markt für Kunststoffe
5 June 20153 June 2015Global Bio-based Platform Chemicals Market 2015-2019with BASF, BioAmber, Braskem, DSM, DuPont, Ineos, Myriant & Novozymes dominating
27 December 2012Top 10 Biobased Predictions for 2013How big, how different will biobased become in 2013? We peer down into the Petri Dish to see what we think 2013 will bring
8 October 2012INEOS Technologies and Accsys Technologies form a 50:50 Joint Venture to develop and commercialise Tricoya® Technology and materialsINEOS, Accsys team-up to develop and market Tricoya® tech for wood plastic composites
22 July 2008Ethanol from municipal waste will be on sale by early 201165 million tonnes of waste in the EU can be converted to 12 million tonnes of ethanol a year