8A small business innovation research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy-Office of Science will help develop, build, and test prototype tires for electric vehicles (EVs) using organosilane-functionalized carbon nanotubes

8The expansion will add 9,000 tonnes/year, or 25% of the current total production capacity

8Japan’s Mitsubishi Chemical Group will defer the final investment decision by 6 to 18 months for its new 350 kilotonnes/year methyl methacrylate (MMA) plant

8The facility, which has a nameplate capacity of 300 kilotonnes/year, lost US$30 million over the last 12 months

8There has been a rise in elastomer capacity
8And this will support the strong demand from partner customers in the sports, consumer electronics, medical and industrial markets

8SI Group will add manufacturing capabilities and capacity to begin producing antioxidants at its India facility

8Through developing an even stronger partnership and closer collaboration than conventionally seen in plastics value chains, the companies are introducing new renewable contents into the value chain to enable plastic production where fossil feedstock has been replaced with renewable feedstock

8The raw materials that can be used for bio-based plastics are numerous

8As part of the acquisition, Hallstar is gaining new product lines of brominated flame retardants and phthalate-free plasticizers including benzoate and citrate esters

8The company will demonstrate molding with INEOS Styrolution’s specialty ABS material on a new machine which will be shown for the first time in Europe

8A molding solutions company has come up with a digital watermarking on an injection-molded cap
8The technology intends to make sorting plastics as a primary step for plastics recycling more accurate by using specialized high-speed cameras reading the watermark like a code during the sorting process

8The company is engaged in the manufacturing of crown caps, carbonated soft drinks closures, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) Preforms, PET bottles, and PET 20L Jars

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8This compressor/pump design is equipped to handle any project and/or equipment related to CO compression needs from atmospheric pressure to typical piping pressure of around 2200 PSI and higher for sequestration requirements

8Strike action at two French refineries will continue unless management agrees to new talks and presents fresh wage proposals

8The company is setting up a technical manufacturing plant in Gujarat with a total capital outlay of Rs. 300 crore over the next two years
8The plant will provide raw material security and the benefit of backward integration in the form of lower raw material costs

8The direct grant will support the installation of a large-scale electrolyzer

8A tire company has completed an expansion project at its tire cord production facility in Vietnam, raising the group’s total production capacity to 103ktpa

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