NEWS IN BRIEF...
Ravago and Repsol have inaugurated their joint 18,500 tonne/yr com- pounding plant at Tangier in Morocco. The plant will produce PP, PA, PBT and alloys for the local automo- tive sector, which includes project supporters Renault Group and Stellantis Group.
www.ravago.com
www.repsol.com
SGL Carbon is reviewing options for its carbon fibre manufacturing business, including a partial or complete sale. The business accounts for around 23% of its total sales but has been hit by the recent decline in demand from the Euro- pean wind energy sector.
www.sglcarbon.com
Röhm has commissioned its expanded PMMA moulding compound capacity at its site at Worms in Germany. The new facility uses energy efficient technologies that reduce the company’s carbon footprint and includes an additional compounding plant for coloured products.
www.roehm.com
Ineos cracker project faces new challenge
Activist group Client Earth, together with a number of other NGOs, has launched a new legal challenge to the Ineos Project One cracker investment at Antwerp in Belgium. The move follows a successful challenge to the company’s permit last year and its successful gaining of a new permit in January from the Flemish authorities. “Plastics are an environ- mental issue, a people issue and a climate issue,” said ClientEarth lawyer Tatania Luján. “The changes made to the project’s new permit are just window dressing.” Project One is a €4bn scheme to build a 1.45m tonne/yr ethane cracker. According to Ineos, the new
Plans for the new Ineos cracker at Antwerp are facing more opposition
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facility will generate less than half the carbon emissions of the best steam crackers currently operating in Europe. The company said it will also produce 100,000 tonnes of hydrogen fuel annually. Prior to the ClientEarth move — and possibly in anticipation of it — Ineos
founder and Chairman Jim Ratcliffe wrote an open letter to Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, warning that Europe is “sleepwalking towards offshoring its industry, jobs, investments, and emissions.” �
www.clientearth.org �
www.ineos.com
LyondellBasell starts up Source One
Source One Plastics, a joint venture between 23 Oaks Investments and Lyondell- Basell, has started up its post-consumer plastic waste sorting and recycling facility at Eicklingen in Germany. The plant has an annual
capacity of 70,000 tonnes and uses a dry processing method claimed to reduce energy consumption by up to 30% compared to conventional plastic recycling technologies while minimising fines release to
the environment. It is intend- ed to provide feedstock for the first commercial-scale catalytic advanced recycling plant that LyondellBasell is building at its Wesseling site in Germany. �
www.lyondellbasell.com
Syklo plans big recycling impact in Finland
Finnish company Syklo has announced plans to build a plastics recycling plant at Hyvinkää using advanced sorting technology from UK-based Impact Recycling. With a planned capacity of 50,000 tonnes, it will be the largest in Finland and will lift the country’s plastics recycling capacity by near 50%. According to Syklo, the use of
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Impact Recycling’s Baffled Oscillaton Separation System (BOSS) technology will allow separation of different plastic types from post-consumer mixed waste plastic streams with a high yield. It will process mixed hard plastics, plastic films from trade and industry, and mixed plastic streams from waste sorting facilities.
“This plant will increase Finland’s
recycling rate of plastic packaging by up to 20%,” said Syklo CEO Teemu Koskela. “The scale of the project is significant as we plan to expand our operations to other Nordic countries, the Baltics, and the rest of Europe.” �
www.syklo.fi �
www.impact-recycling.com
www.compoundingworld.com
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