NEWS BASF cuts back central functions


BASF has announced plans for an “organisational realignment” that aims to streamline its administration and accentuate the role of the regions and services. The programme is expected to see 6,000 jobs go worldwide with the first changes taking effect on 1 January 2020, the company said in a statement. The process is intended to generate savings of €300m and is part of BASF’s


Green light for US PE


ExxonMobil and Sabic have agreed to go ahead with the construction of a joint venture chemical facility and a 1.8m tpa ethane steam cracker in San Patricio County, Texas, US. Construction will begin in Q3 and start-up is anticipated by 2022. Gulf Coast Growth


Ventures, as it is known, received final environ- mental regulatory approval in June. As well as the cracker, the two companies will build two PE units and a monoeth- ylene glycol unit. In all, it will create 600 jobs. � www.exxonmobil.com � www.sabic.com


ongoing excellence programme, which is targeting annual savings of €2bn in additional earnings from 2022. The job cuts will be focused on


central functions such as finance, HR, communications and supply chain, with the corporate centre slimming down to about 1,000 people. BASF officials told Compounding World that there will be no job cuts in customer-facing or


operational areas and that there may, in time, be additional jobs in fields such as production or digitalisation. Management and employee


representatives are currently renegoti- ating the site agreement at the Ludwigshafen plant in Germany. The current agreement expires at the end of the year. � www.basf.com


production Following the lead set by the EU, Canada has announced a ban on single-use plastics by 2021 where supported by scientific evidence and warranted. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, when announcing the move: “We owe it to our kids to keep the environment clean and safe for generations to come”. Canada will also “take other steps to reduce pollution from plastic products and packaging”, while working with the provinces and territories that constitute the nation as a whole to introduce stand- ards and targets for compa- nies that manufacture plastic products or sell items with plastic packaging, in order


Canada follows EU and bans some single-use plastics


taken in the European Union and other countries”. They will also support the ongoing development of an action plan to implement the Canada-wide Strategy on Zero Plastic Waste. It is estimated that


Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau


for them to take responsibil- ity for the plastic waste their activities generate. The government said that


the measures it is taking “will be grounded in scientific evidence and will align, where appropriate, with similar actions being


Canada currently recycles less than 10% of its plastics and that, without any change, the value of materials being discarded will reach C$11bn per year by 2030. By taking these measures and investing in new technologies, the government hopes to reduce 1.8m tonnes of carbon pollution, generate billions in revenue and create some 42,000 jobs. � www.canada.ca


Borealis and Erema expand their work


Borealis has signed a letter of intent to step up its long-standing partnership in the field of mechanical recycling with Austrian recycling technology group Erema. The stated shared goal is “to advance mechanical recycling technologies in order to accelerate the transition to a circular economy of


10 INJECTION WORLD | July/August 2019


plastics”, while also enhancing recy- cling processes to meet market demand for higher quality recyclate. The two will specifically collaborate on: developing improved technologies and processes in mechanical recycling by leveraging each other’s respective areas of expertise, including joint tests,


trial runs and pilot projects; standardis- ing and harmonising input feedstock and recyclate output; and scaling up the mechanical recycling industry by increasing plant sizes and total production volumes. � www.borealisgroup.com � www.erema.com


www.injectionworld.com


PHOTO: CANADIAN GOVT


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60