Actions to accelerate chemicals circularity

Actions to accelerate chemicals circularity

Study by Cefic, with consultancy UNITY, reveals key actions to accelerate circularity in the chemicals industry and beyond (pinfa is a Cefic Sector Group). The joint study, “Accelerating the Circular Transformation: Insights, Challenges, and Pathways for the Chemical...
Report on plastics recycling economics

Report on plastics recycling economics

Bain & Company say plastics recycling could reach cost parity with virgin plastics, but needs €400 billion investment. The report centres on chemical recycling of plastics (gasification, pyrolysis, glycolysis). Recycling is today costly and customers are very...
Call for partners: upcycling PIN polymers

Call for partners: upcycling PIN polymers

HFFR-Up2Cycle project aims to restabilise and upgrade recycled polymers to PIN FR performance materials. Depending on industry partners, the project will look at post-consumer and closed loop plastics from electrical and electronics, automotive, cables and...
Recycling

Recycling

Michael Grosshauser, Fraunhofer LBF, presented conclusions of the joint pinfa project with ten companies to trial upcycling of post-consumer and post-industrial secondary polymers: PP, PE, PC/ABS, PET and PA. This follows a previous project with pinfa which showed...
PIN FR eco-benign wildfire stop spray coat

PIN FR eco-benign wildfire stop spray coat

Ammonium polyphosphate – triazin spray can provide eco-friendly fire block protection of vegetation. Wildfire frequency is increasing globally with climate change. The difficulty of extinguishing wildfires means that establishing effective firebreaks is essential to...