Category: Production Capacity
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Packaging Industry Owned Composting Infrastructure (FREE)
Closed Loop Partners Collaborates with PepsiCo, the NextGen Consortium & Other Leading Brands to Advance Composting Infrastructure & Recover Compostable Packaging and Food Scraps. This is a FREE article.
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Plastic Energy and TotalEnergies Partner on Chemical Recycling
Plastic Recycling: Plastic Energy, Freepoint Eco-Systems And TotalEnergies Partner On Advanced Recycling Project In The U.S
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Evanesce Opens First US Plant
Evanesce® Opens First U.S. Based Manufacturing Facility for Sustainable Product Development
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Plastic Energy to Build Chemical Recycling Plant in France
Plastic Energy Announces Final Investment Decision And Start Of Construction Works For Advanced Recycling Plant In France
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New Clariant Sunliquid Cellulosic Ethanol Plant
Clariant Completes Construction Of First Commercial Sunliquid® Cellulosic Ethanol Plant In Podari, Romania
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Multibillion Investment Needed for Circular Plastics
Analysis Indicates Need for Multibillion-Dollar Capital Spending to Achieve a “Circular Plastics Economy” by 2050
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ExxonMobil to Build US Chemical Recycling Plant
ExxonMobil to build its first large-scale plastic waste advanced recycling facility
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Dow to Build First Net Zero Plastic Plant
Dow announces plan to build world’s first net-zero carbon emissions ethylene and derivatives complex
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Dow Grows Global Circular Plastics Capabilities
Dow expands global capabilities for circular plastics, with initial products available for customers in 2022
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Pilot Biorefineries in Italy and Spain
After five years, Agrimax, the Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking project, which has built two ground-breaking pilot plant facilities in Spain and Italy has come to an end.
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First Carbon Neutral Industrial Park
Marquis Incorporated’s CEO, Mark Marquis, announced a plan for the Marquis Industrial Park to be the world’s first carbon-neutral industrial park with on-site carbon injection.
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NatureWorks Thailand Plant Update
Jacobs has completed front-end engineering design for a new biopolymer production plant in Thailand
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TotalEnergies Doubles Recycled Plastic Production in France
TotalEnergies Doubles its Recycled Plastic Production Capacity in France
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First Swedish Pyrolysis Plant
Production is now underway at Pyrocell’s plant in Gävle. The new and groundbreaking factory is turning sawdust into bio-oil.
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New Renuva Mattress Recycling Plant
Mattress recycling now a reality with startup of new RENUVA™ plant
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LG Chem and ADM Partner on PLA Plant
First Korean company to build a Poly Lactic Acid (PLA) plant in the U.S.
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Viridis Chemical to Produce Bio Chemicals in Nebraska
Viridis Chemical Announces Completion of Capital Improvement to Produce USP Grade Bio-Based Ethanol (Phase I) and Begins Construction on Upgrade to Produce Bio-Based Ethyl Acetate (Phase II) at the Columbus, Nebraska plant
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Solugen Raises Millions to Produce Bio Chemicals
Solugen Raises Over $350 Million in Series C Funding Led by Baillie Gifford & GIC to Make Carbon Negative Chemicals
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US Governor Announces New Bioplastics Plant
Gov. Kemp Announces Bioplastics Company to Open Facility in Savannah, Creating Over 100 Jobs
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Worlds Largest Chemical Recycling Plant
The world’s largest and most modern facility for plastic recycling
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LG Chem to Build 10 Eco Material Plants
LG Chem Invests 2.6 Trillion Korean Won In High Value-add Eco-friendly Materials In Seosan, Chungnam Province
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INCA to Build Hemp Composite Plant
INCA Renewtech Signs Agreement with Genesis Products to Manufacture Bio-panels for RVs and Trucks and Secures Land in Elkhart County, IN to Build Hemp-based Composites Manufacturing Operation
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Sumitomo Goes Chemical Recycling of Acrylic Resin
Sumitomo Chemical to Construct Chemical Recycling Pilot Facility for Acrylic Resin to Reduce Impact on the Environment
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Plastic Energy and Sabic Groundbreaking Ceremony
A look back at the groundbreaking ceremony for our new advanced recycling plant in the Netherlands with partner SABIC.
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Final Authorisation NatureWorks Plant in Thailand
NatureWorks Passes Final Authorization Milestone for New Fully Integrated Ingeo PLA Manufacturing Plant in Thailand
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Challenges on Industrial Bio Transformation
Challenges of sustainable industrial transformation: Swedish biorefinery development and incumbents in the emerging biofuels industry
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PHA Startup Receives Funding to Scale Up Production
Genecis Receives Funding from NGen to Scale Sustainable Bioplastic Production from Organic Waste
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Zume and Jefferson Enterprise Partner on Zero Carbon Compostable Packaging
Zume and Jefferson Enterprise Energy Secure $122M to Build the World’s First 100% Renewable Energy Powered Compostable Packaging Factory
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Versalis Circular Production Plan
Two main goals of lowering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reducing our dependency on fossil reserves form the cornerstone for the accelerated shift towards a bio- and circular economy.
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New Wood Plastic Composite Plant in Tasmania
Timberlink Announces a new Bio Composite plant in Bell Bay Tasmania
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PolyStyreneLoop Grand Opening
Dutch people have many great skills; but their biggest weakness is the cheap marketing. Check out by yourself
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Good Natured Expands Production Capacity
good natured Products Inc. Expands Capacity at IPF to Meet Increased Demand for Plant-Based Compostable and Recyclable Packaging
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Futamura Increases Production Capacity Natureflex
Expansion of our capacities and new CEO for Futamura’s five-year anniversary
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Agilyx Major Operating Milestone
Company reaches 16,000 commercial operating hours, marking 4,400 tons of plastic waste converted
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Parkside Invests in Malaysian Production Capacity
Parkside Boosts Malaysian Flexible Packaging Operations
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Bosk Builds Bioplastic Plant in Canada
Bosk Bioproducts Inaugurated Its First Regen™ Bioplastic Production Line, A 100% Biobased, Non-Toxicand Compostable Material, Installed In Quebec City
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Stora Enso Shutting Down Production Site Update
Stora Enso has completed the co-determination negotiations concerning closing down the pulp and paper production at its Veitsiluoto site in Finland
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Danimer Communicates on Production BottleNeck
Danimer Scientific has been accused of many inconsistencies including on its official production capacity. This is an attempt to reassure the public
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Stora Enso to Modernise Production Sites
Stora Enso invests in competitiveness of Anjala-Ingerois and Nymölla production sites
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EU Biorefinery Outlook to 2030
Studies on support to research and innovation policy in the area of bio-based products and services
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Brightmark to Build Largest Advanced Recycling Plant
Brightmark to Build World’s Largest Advanced Plastics Recycling and Renewal Facility in Macon, GA
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Green Dot Bioplastics Plant Expansion
Kansas-based global bioplastics company expansion project will double capacity ahead of new product launches
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Danna Opens Biomaterials Pilot Plant in Spain
Dan*na launches a pilot plant for bioplastic production for the biomedical and technological sector in the Barcelona Science Park
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NatureWorks to Produce PLA in Thailand
Thailand BOI Approves NatureWorks’s Over 15 Billion Baht Investment in New PLA Plant
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NEXE to Start Producing Compostable Coffee Pods
NEXE Innovations Receives Proprietary Assembly Line to begin Producing its Fully Compostable Nespresso®-Compatible Pod
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Global Bioenergies Production Scale Up
Successful first full-scale fermenter run: 180 m3. Transfer of main units from the Leuna demo plant to the Pomacle facility
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LyondellBasell Starts Circular Plastic Production in Germany
LyondellBasell starts commercial production of polymers using raw material derived from plastic waste
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Cargill to Build New Canola Plant (FREE)
Cargill unveils plans for new canola processing facility in Regina, Saskatchewan.
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Total Corbion Starts Design New PLA Plant
Total Corbion PLA enters engineering stage for new 100 kTpa PLA plant in Grandpuits, France
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Belgian Bio Aromatics Pilot Plant Update
LignoValue Pilot ready to be built: More than 30 interested companies
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Occidental Petroleum Builds Bio Ethylene Plant
Occidental unit to build low-carbon bio-ethylene plant
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Finland Partnership for Soy Bioplastics
Multipurpose bioplastic from soy residues: A pilot plant to Finland
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Corbion Global Production Expansion
Corbion Further Boosts Lactic Acid Capacity Through Concurrent Expansion Projects
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NL to Produce Ethanol with Sugar Beets
A new factory in Zeeland will produce bioethanol from sugar beets
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Biffa Doubles HDPE Recycling Capacity
Plastics recycling pioneer Biffa is doubling its high-density polyethene (HDPE) plastic recycling capacity with a new investment in its facility in Washington, Sunderland
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RenCom Starts Producing Lignin Based Renol
RenCom starts production of lignin-based material Renol®, to replace fossil-based plastics, with a capacity of more than 1000 tonnes/year
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Versalis Partners on New Fossil Plastic Plant
Versalis licenses LDPE-EVA technology for MTO project in Uzbekistan. Fossil Plastics is far from dying out!
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ALPLA Invests in rPET in Italy
Construction of an extrusion system in Anagni for 15,000 tonnes of rPET a year
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Bioplastics Leader Goes for Rotterdam
Market leader in bioplastics chooses port of Rotterdam — SYMPHONY ENVIRONMENTAL sues the EU for breach of REACH
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Corbion to Expand Lactic Acid Capacity in US
Investment to increase production capacity demonstrates company’s commitment to regional customers and to meeting their growing needs.
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Borealis Advanced Mechanical Recycling Plant in Germany
Borealis and TOMRA open state-of-the-art plant for post-consumer plastic waste sorting and advanced mechanical recycling
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Belgium Builds 3 New Recycling Centers
Fost Plus today announced the construction of three new recycling centers for plastic household packaging waste.
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Afyren Builds Biorefinery in France
AFYREN, a biotechnology start-up that is a member of the French Tech 120, is making the leap to industrial-scale production as it begins construction of a zero-waste, low-carbon factory in France’s Grand Est region.
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Is Thailand Next Plastic Waste Dumping Paradise?
Will Thailand become the new China in terms of plastic waste dumping place?
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Nurel Expands Biopolymers Production
this new plant will double the production of biopolymers to correspond the growing demand for sustainable plastics
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Genomatica to Scale Up Bio Nylon Production
Genomatica to Scale Bio-nylon 50-Fold with Aquafil to Meet Surging Brand Demand
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New Largest Bioplastic Plant in Central and Eastern Europe
The manufacturer invested more than EUR 10 million in developing a state-of-the art facility near Bucharest, Romania, dedicated to processing bioplastics derived from renewable resources.
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New Threat for Plastic Industry
This may become one of the most important problems for the plastic industry in the medium term.
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Origin Materials to Build Bio Chemical Plant in Canada
Origin Materials to Build Bio Chemical Plant in Canada
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Sekab to Build Green Chemicals Plant
Sekab is investing in its own technology: wants to build a production plant for green chemicals and biofuels
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NGO Block Construction of Plastic Plant
One of the largest plastic plant may not be build thanks to the opposition of NGOs. It may set jurisprudence.
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Aramco and Sabic Fossil Chemical Plant on Hold
Saudi Aramco and Saudi Basic Industries Corp. will re-evaluate the scope of a planned crude-to-chemicals project in the kingdom as they seek to reduce spending amid a slump in prices for their products.
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UPM Builds Biochemical Plant in Germany
The construction of UPM’s innovative biochemicals facility starts in Germany
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Solvay Opens Second Bio Solvent Plant in Brazil
The new plant in Paulinia, São Paulo specialises in the development of a bio-based solvent to mainly serve the European and North american market
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New PHBV Plant in Netherlands
Five water boards, STOWA knowledge center, technology company Paques and sustainable waste and energy company HVC have signed an agreement to build a larger scale production unit in Dordrecht for the production of PHBV, a fully biodegradable and sustainable bioplastic.
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New US Polystyrene Recycling Plant
INEOS Styrolution and AmSty Announce Joint Facility for Advanced Recycling of Polystyrene in Channahon, Illinois, using Agilyx Technology
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NatureWorks Increases PLA Production
NatureWorks announces additional lactide monomer purification technology to expand the availability of Ingeo biopolymer from Blair facility
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Thyssenkrupp to Build Second PLA Plant in China
thyssenkrupp’s plant engineering business recently won another order to build a bioplastics plant based on the patented PLAneo® technology. It will be built in South China and will produce 30,000 tons of polylactide (PLA) annually.
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Bioplastics Drives Demand for Plastic Machinery
Compounding extruders are reporting greater interest in plastics recycling and bioplastics.
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NL Builds New Sustainable Plastics Testing Facility
Multi-million investment in R&D infrastructure in the Netherlands.
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Bioplastic Bags Production Resumes in Caribbean
Local manufacturers will restart the production of biodegradable plastic bags on Tuesday.
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Danimer Receives US DOE Grant
Danimer Scientific Receives U.S. Department of Energy Grant to Support Bioplastic Production
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Avantium Plans to Build New PEF Plant
Worley has been awarded a FEED (front-end engineering design) to develop Avantium’s flagship plant that will support the transition to a bio-based economy for plastics. The plant will produce 100% plant-based FDCA (furandicarboxylic acid) – a key building block for many chemicals and plastics.
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Revolution in Succinic Acid Production
A research team led by Professor Sang Yup Lee reported the production of a microbial strain capable of the massive production of succinic acid with the highest production efficiency to date.










