Doppelganger plastics: a desirable alternative?
What if a product existed to match PET’s practicality, but was environmentally superior? Dirk den Ouden, Vice President of Circular Chemicals, Stora Enso, says the move to a truly circular economy just got closer.
The...
Lack of demand for sustainable chemicals blocks investment
Over 450 large-scale industrial projects in six of the world’s highest-emitting industries are seeking investment to start producing green commodities by 2030, according to analysis by the Industrial Transition Accelerator (ITA).
Heavy industries responsible for...
Organocatalysis: our golden ticket to a green future?
The high cost of traditional catalysis has accelerated the drive to sustainable alternatives, says trainee patent attorney Iain McLauchlan, JA Kemp.
Catalysts are specialised compounds that offer certain chemical reactions faster, lower energy pathways towards...
Microplastics solution ‘available today’
Most of the microplastics are caused by the fragmentation of ordinary plastic – now is the time to look to oxo-biodegradable solutions, says Michael Laurier, CEO of Symphony Environmental Technologies Plc.
Microplastics are seen as...
The importance of mass balance in chemical recycling
Global chemical recycling capacity has the potential to grow 8x by 2029 if all projects (including pre-FID) come to fruition, according to the ICIS Recycling Supply Tracker – Chemical. Analyst Joshua Dill investigates.
While chemical...
Sustainable Carbon for the UK Chemicals industry Ambition
Innovate UK launches Sustainable Carbon Ambition for chemicals industry
The UK advanced manufacturing base is fundamentally reliant on inputs from the chemicals industry.
However, the chemicals industry is inherently carbon and energy intensive, and unlike other...
Measurement technology secures hydrogen processes
Hydrogen is the key element for a greener economy. Hardly any other area of the global economy is currently experiencing so much development and dynamism. Research, trials and tests are being conducted worldwide. No...
Moving towards Green Energy and the Challenges That We Face
Chemical engineering, process safety and associated industries are built around the mutual core value of striving for a greener, more sustainable environment, and this can only become a realistic goal through collective efforts to...
Decarbonising the chemical industry: a path to net-zero emissions
By Yash Chawla, Chemical Expert and Strategic Project Manager at STX Group, global environmental commodity trading and climate solutions firm.
The chemical industry is integral to modern society, supplying essential materials for pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, agriculture...
Continuous metals monitor reveals environmental benefits
A new continuous metals monitoring technology has been trialled at a river by a talc production plant in Finland.
The trial assessed whether the sampling and analysis of large numbers of environmental water samples could...