NEWS SI Group partners with Dingjide
Performance chemical additives maker SI Group has agreed a supply partner- ship with Liaoning Dingjide Petro- chemical under which the Chinese company will become a co-producer for certain SI antioxidant products. Under the terms of the agreement, SI will continue to offer the products to customers in China and will distribute and sell them outside of the country. It will cease manufacturing at its site Jinshan during this year and will sell the property. SI Group said it aims to relocate its
research and development facilities, which are also currently located at Jinshan, and will continue to operate its remaining offices and manufactur- ing facility in China. “By partnering with Dingjide, SI
Above: Officials mark the signing of the new supply partnership
Group is able to focus on establishing global performance additives leader- ship through its global sales and marketing reach and investments in innovation, while optimising our footprint and variablising our cost structure,” said Joey Gullion, SVP
Chief Commercial Officer at SI Group. Dingjide Chariman Zaiming Zhang said the deal will leverage its world- class quality and production capabili- ties to support antioxidant growth in the global marketplace. �
www.siigroup.com
Bioplastics gain in new LCA data
The latest updates to the Ecoinvent Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) database have resulted in increases in the average carbon foot- print of a number of crude oil and natural gas derived products — a 107% increase for naptha, 34% for PP, 30% for PE and 26% for PET. The changes are said to
be the result of an updated assessment covering oil and
Updated carbon footprint values for fossil-based products in latest
Ecoinvent LCA database
natural gas supply chains to reflect significant changes in the global supply situation and the inclusion, for the first time, of unintended methane emissions during extraction and fossil product processing.
As the Ecoinvent data is used in many LCA assess- ments, the increased footprints may have an impact on comparative
analysis of fossil-based plastics against bio-based or other plastics alternatives containing renewable carbon. According to the Renewable Carbon Initia- tive, the production carbon footprint reduction of bio-based plastics over fossil-based alternatives could shift from 20-30% to 40-50%. �
www.renewable-carbon.eu
LG to make bio-PA
Korean companies LG Chem and CJ CheilJedang have agreed to set up a joint venture to produce and sell bio-based polyamide resins based on pentamethylenediamine (PMDA) produced by fermentation. According to the
Source: Renweable Carbon Initiative/ Nova Institut
www.compoundingworld.com
partners, the bio-based polyamide resins will provide the same heat resistance and durability as fossil-based grades. Under the agreement, CJ CheilJedang will produce the PMDA using its fermentation technol- ogy while LG Chem will polymerise and sell the products. �
www.lgchem.com �
https://www.cj.co.kr/en/index
March 2024 | COMPOUNDING WORLD 5
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