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WASTE VALORISATION said Ms. Yvonne van der Laan, Lyondell produces recycled materials with a ing at establishing LYB as an industry
Borealis and Infi nium to turn carbon emissions Basell Executive Vice President, Circular high degree of purity suitable for new leader in sustainability. A key element
and Low Carbon Solutions.
fl exible packaging of, for example, of its new strategy was the formation
personal care products. The materials of a dedicated Circular & Low Carbon
into plastics The recycling technology, a unique produced will be sold under the LYB Solutions (CLCS) business. CLCS has
solvent-based kind for low density Circulen portfolio. started to make substantial investments
Austrian petrochemicals major, polyethylene (LDPE), separates the upstream in plastic-waste sorting and
Borealis, and US-based producer of different polymers of hard to recycle, In March 2023 LYB revealed its recycling operations in Europe, the US
e-fuels or electricity-based fuels, Infi nium, fl exible plastic waste materials and pivotal, new company strategy aim- and Asia.
are joining forces for the production of
low-carbon-footprint plastics generated REUSING RESOURCES
from waste carbon dioxide (CO )
2
emissions that would otherwise be Mitsubishi Chemical to explore recycling of used
released into the atmosphere.
tyres for making carbon black
As per the deal between the two
fi rms, Infi nium will supply commercial Japan’s Mitsubishi Chemical
volumes of ‘eNaphtha’, a sustainable Group (MCG Group) has launched
drop-in alternative to traditional fossil- studies to perform chemical recycling
based naphtha, to Borealis. of end-of-life tyres (ELTs) by utilising
the coke ovens at its Kagawa plant.
The eNaphtha, manufactured at the The MCG Group aims to begin mar-
company’s Project Pathfi nder facility keting sustainable carbon black made
in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA, will be from ELTs by March 2026.
shipped to Borealis’ Porvoo facility in
Finland, for processing into sustainable way as with a conventional naphtha- “Through this collaboration with Along with the accelerating trend
polyolefi n solutions. “The world’s fi rst based product. eNaphtha produced at Infi nium, we show that atmospheric car- in the tyre industry toward using
commercial eNaphtha shipment left the the Infi nium Pathfi nder facility has bon, obtained by effectively capturing sustainable raw materials, there is a
US in May,” the companies informed received ISCC PLUS certifi cation from and storing carbon emissions in pro- growing need to use recycled carbon
in a joint press note. the International Sustainability and ducts during their lifetime, can con- black, one of the main raw materials
Carbon Certifi cation (ISCC) body. This stitute a circular building block for the and a rubber reinforcing agent used in world to produce sustainable carbon In preparation for commerciali-
Plastics made from Infi nium’s certifi cation system ensures the trace- future. This is one of the ways that Bore- tyres. By leveraging the MCG Group’s black from ELTs using coke ovens. sation, in July 2024, MCG started
eNaphtha can be produced using the ability of the sustainably produced alis is reinventing essentials for sustain- supply chain, it is able to feed crushed demonstration experiments where
same facilities and manufacturing feedstock from its point of origin able living,” said Ms. Mirjam Mayer, VP ELTs as raw material into its coke According to the company, the sus- ELTs were fed into coke ovens.
equipment and recycled in the same throughout the entire chain of custody. Circular Economy Solutions at Borealis. ovens and produce carbon black again tainable carbon black produced has
from the tar. the same performance as conventional The group aims to sell “several
PORTFOLIO BOOST carbon black and can therefore be used thousand tons” of sustainable carbon
According to the MCG Group’s again in new tyres, contributing to a black in FY2025, and raising it to
LyondellBasell announces German recycling company research, this is the fi rst attempt in the closed loop recycling of tyres. “tens of thousands of tons” in FY2030.

acquisition Deltech Holdings assumes divinylbenzene production

Chemicals giant, LyondellBasell with its already existing mechanical “We see APK’s solvent based from DuPont
(LYB), has agreed to acquire full and advanced recycling technologies. recycling technology as a vital addition
ownership of APK AG in Merseburg, Therefore, it already invested in the and complementary to our existing and Deltech Holdings, a US-based pro- benzene (DVB) from DuPont. DuPont DVB for DuPont and its customers.
Germany, as part of its efforts to grow company in the past and made colla- future mechanical and advanced recyc- ducer of high-performance aromatic plans to discontinue its production of “This agreement represents a major
its Circular and Low Carbon Solutions borative efforts on bringing the techno- ling operations. This is an important monomers, specialised crystal poly- DVB as part of its strategy to focus step in the continued expansion of our
business. logy to scale. By acquiring APK, LYB further step toward reaching our goal to styrene, and downstream acrylic resins on downstream applications. With this monomers segment,” said Mr. Jesse
secures the future of the company after produce and market at least 2-million for the coatings, composites, construc- agreement, DuPont will transfer IP Zeringue, President and CEO of
LYB believes APK’s solvent-based it entered into insolvency at the end of metric tons of recycled and renewable tion, and other end markets, will be and other assets to Deltech, enabling Deltech, a portfolio company of SK
recycling technology is a perfect fi t May 2024. based polymers annually by 2030,” assuming the production of divinyl- them to produce a reliable source of Capital Partners.

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