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Clariant to collaborate with SABIC on High Performance Materials Business

Global speciality chemicals company Clariant has announced an updated strategy for its speciality chemicals segment, alongside a collaboration with SABIC on high performance materials. 

By 2021, it will combine its Additives and high value Masterbatches (colour, high temperature resins and health care) businesses into a High Performance Materials division, with parts of SABIC’s Specialties business. It will also divest its remaining Plastics & Coatings Business, including Pigments, standard Masterbatches and Medical Specialties. 

Covestro to build sustainable chlorine production plant

One of the world’s largest polymer companies, Covestro, is planning to build its own chlorine production plant in Tarragona, Spain, which will use a more sustainable process: oxygen-depolarised cathode (ODC) technology, which consumes around a quarter less energy than the conventional method. The company is building the first industrial-scale plant based solely on this technology at its location in Spain, expected to begin in the first half of 2019. 

DuPont and ADM open world-first FDME pilot production facility

DuPont Industrial Biosciences and Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) have opened the world’s first biobased furan dicarboxylic methyl ester (FDME) pilot production facility in Decatur, Illinois, US.

FDME is a molecule derived from fructose that can be used to create a variety of biobased chemicals and materials, including plastics, that can be more cost-effective, efficient and sustainable than their fossil fuel- based counterparts.

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