Issue 05/2023

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News
From CO 2
to polyolefins
(29 August 2023)
Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil) and the University of São Paulo (USP)
have announced a partnership to develop lines of research for converting
CO 2
into chemical products such as olefins and alcohols, thus mitigating
its emissions into the environment and using it as a raw material for the
production of polyolefins.
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PET bottles produced with bio-attributed
materials in Japan
Neste (Espoo, Finland) has entered a cooperation with
Suntory (Osaka, Japan), ENEOS (Tokyo, Japan), and Mitsubishi
Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) to enable the production of PET
made with renewable Neste RE on a commercial scale.
Neste RE is Neste’s feedstock for polymer production,
made 100 % from biobased raw materials such as waste and
residues, e.g. used cooking oil, to replace fossil feedstock
in the value chain. Japanese beverage company Suntory
will utilize the renewable PET resin to produce bottles for
its products in 2024.
A new partner for Neste in Japan, ENEOS will use biointermediates
based on Neste RE to produce bio-PX (bioparaxylene)
at its Mizushima Refinery in Okayama, Japan.
The bio-PX will then be converted to PTA (purified terephthalic
acid) and subsequently to PET resin for Suntory to use to
manufacture their PET bottles. Mitsubishi Corporation
will be coordinating the collaboration between the
value chain partners.
“In order to tackle the imminent climate crisis and its
consequences, companies are required to take responsibility
now. Through partnering along the value chain, Neste can
contribute to reducing the polymers and chemicals industry’s
dependence on fossil resources as well as to manufacturing
of products that have a lower carbon footprint”, says Lilyana
Budyanto, Head of Sustainable Partnerships APAC at Neste
Renewable Polymers and Chemicals business unit.
A mass balancing approach will be applied to allocate the
biobased materials to the PET bottles. AT MT
www.neste.com | www.suntory.com
www.eneos.co.jp | www.mitsubishicorp.com
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Topics related to the
Renewable Carbon Initiative...
Bioplastics related topics, i.e.
all topics around biobased
and biodegradable plastics,
come in the familiar
green frame.
All topics related to
Advanced Recycling, such
as chemical recycling
or enzymatic degradation
of mixed waste into
building blocks for
new plastics have this
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When it comes to plastics
made of any kind of carbon
source associated with
Carbon Capture & Utilisation
we use this frame colour.
The familiar blue
frame stands for rather
administrative sections,
such as the table of
contents or the
“Dear readers” on page 3.
If a topic belongs to more
than one group, we use
crosshatched frames.
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Carbon Capture &
Bioplastics, e. g.
PHA made from methane.
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bioplastics MAGAZINE | Renewable Carbon Plastics [05/23] Vol. 18
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