NEWS High Ambition Coalition launches
The governments of 20 countries, including UK, Germany, France, Den- mark, Sweden, Portugal, and Canada, have come together to launch the High Ambition Coalition in a bid to curb plastic pollution. The coalition was initiated following the historic UN Environment Assembly resolution to start negotia- tions of an international legally binding nature to end plastic pollution was
passed in March. It will undertake intersessional work on essential ele- ments and issues in order to develop a landmark treaty by 2024. Minister of Climate and
Environment of Norway and co-chair of the coalition,
Espen Barth-Eide, said: “We took
the initiative to form a group of ambitious countries to work for a truly effective global treaty that will estab- lish common global rules, turn off the
Sirmax plans third US facility
Less than 10 years after establishing its first manu- facturing presence in the US, Italian compounder Sirmax is planning to build a third production plant. Sirmax opened its first US
production site at Anderson in Indiana in 2015 to produce polyolefin compounds. A second plant, configured for production of compounds from post industrial recycled PP and representing a $35m
investment, followed in 2020. “In line with our multi- country and multi-product strategy, we are planning additional investments in the same property by 2025 in order to expand existing buildings and build a third plant,” according to North America Country Manager Lorenzo Ferro. The company says the unit will
third 12,000m2 open in 2025 and will
manufacture engineering plastic compounds. The expansion of its current facilities will allow it to take on TPE production and to increase capacity for recycled compounds. Sirmax operates 13
production plants world- wide: six in Italy; two each in India, Poland and the US; and one in Brazil. It gener- ated sales in 2021 of €480m. �
www.sirmax.com
tap and end plastic pollution by 2040.” According to the OECD’s ‘Global Plastic Outlook Policy Scenarios to 2060’ report, without urgent global action the volume of plastics in rivers and lakes will increase from 109m tonnes in 2019 to 348m tonnes in 2060, while plastics leaking into the oceans will rise from 30m tonnes to 145m tonnes over the same period. The most significant sectors driving mass consumption are packaging, vehicles, and construction. �
www.hactoendplasticpollution.org
Benvic is sold to ICIG
European PVC and polyolefins compounder Benvic Compounds is to be sold to investment firm International Chemical Investors Group (ICIG), which also owns PVC producer Vynova, by current owner Investin- dustrial. Benvic also owns French recycler Ereplast. �
www.benvic.com
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