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🌏🎉 Join me in celebrating a milestone in advancing the circular economy! Yesterday BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions and @Heraeus Precious Metals celebrated the opening of our joint venture in Pinghu, China.    At BASF HERAEUS Metal Resource, an impressive 10,000 tons of autocatalysts can now be recycled yearly. This allows for the valuable raw materials platinum, palladium, and rhodium to remain in circulation.     A big thanks to everyone who worked on the successful completion of this facility. It was an honor to celebrate this milestone with you.    Recycling precious metals offers a significant reduction in carbon footprint, saving up to 98% of carbon emissions compared to mining. Therefore, this investment benefits not only both companies but also the wider PGM and downstream industries. It will support our customers by meeting their increasing demand for low carbon footprint products.    By the way: the joint venture is part of our global expansion program. Between 2018 and 2026 we will have invested 300 million euros in expanding our recycling capacities!    #recycling #sustainability #preciousmetals 

🌱♻️ Driving the #CircularEconomy: Together with BASF, we're proud to announce the opening of our new joint venture. Located in Pinghu, China, the facility recovers precious metals from spent automotive catalysts, enabling a circular economy. With a state-of-the-art facility capable of recycling approximately 10,000 tons of spent automotive catalysts per year, we are setting new standards in #preciousmetals recycling. Our goal is to continuously keep recovered precious metals in the loop. This is especially important as recycled precious metals have an up to 98% lower carbon footprint compared to precious metals from mines Read more: https://lnkd.in/dX474vQQ #Sustainability #Recycling #GreenTechnology #Innovation

Interesting development NEU Battery Materials to test & supply recycled lithium to NanoMalaysia Berhad for making energy storage solutions. A similar initiative for testing recycled lithium battery materials for use in new batteries and energy storage systems is crucial, especially in India, where access to primary lithium and other critical materials for battery production is limited. Recycling lithium batteries, not only from India but from around the world, is the best way forward for India to become a leader in this area, which is vital for energy security.

STG aim to become the world's No. 1 magnesium molding and processing group by globally expanding technology and know-how perfected in Japan. "The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) introduced by the United Nations in 2015 are having a big impact on the manufacturing sector. Many firms are seeking ways to reduce their environmental impacts, whether by seeking new materials or by making their manufacturing process more environmentally friendly. Your core material is #magnesium, which is highly recyclable, and you’ve outlined its potential to be a next-generation material to replace plastics." https://lnkd.in/erH-MN6u

Mitsui Chemicals Targets Next-generation Elastomers by 2030: The Japanese plastics giant’s Vision 2030 strategic business plan points to a greener, high-tech future for automotive applications.

CHINAPLAS 2024: Shaping the Future of the Plastics & Rubber Industries Expediting the Transformation from “Made in China” to “Innovated in China”

𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐨𝐫 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐂? Well, this month, I've had at least two messages from clients asking that I work for OPEC Plastic or Stavian Chemical? Not sure whether anyone saw my introductory post on Linkedin, but Stavian and OPEC are the same business 😗 ------- "Stavian Chemical Joint Stock Company was established in 2009 under the name of Opec Plastics. To realize the long-term strategy of developing an ecosystem, Opec Plastics has continued to expand its business into other fields such as investment, logistics, real estate, industrial parks, chemicals, and petrochemicals. To mark this transformation, Opec Plastics has rebranded and officially changed its name to Stavian Chemical on July 1, 2021." cr: https://lnkd.in/gD2gXS-n ------- That's it, we changed the name to Stavian Group to invest across a wide range of industries as a single multi-industry business and operate subsidiaries in the packaging, paper, steel, logistics, etc in addition to plastic resins.  Hopefully everyone will know after reading this post that Stavian Chemical is OPEC Plastic - we are all one. Thank you for reading.

SCGC Partners with Thailand Automotive Institute to Drive Thailand Towards Low-Carbon Automotive Industry SCGC - SCG Chemicals suracha udomsak ASEAN Foundation #Polymers #PolymerScience #MaterialScience #PolymerEngineering #SyntheticPolymers #AdvancedMaterials #Plastics #MaterialInnovation #PolymerChemistry Maitri Sahoo Read Polymer Brief and change the way you look for Polymer information https://lnkd.in/dipfb-s2

The rubber compounding arm of the Swedish Hexpol Group has invested in a devulcanization line in Europe. The company reports that this enables mechanical devulcanization of rubber in-house and supports the transition to a circular economy. Specifically, the investment will enable Hexpol Compounding to produce “several thousand tons of compounds with devulcanized rubber content per year” in Europe. Hexpol’s devulcanization process adds no additional chemicals. It involves solely the use of mechanical forces like shear, compression, and temperature to break down the crosslinking bonds of the cured rubber with the help of a specific extruder. The new extruder will be installed at the Hexpol Compounding site in the Czech Republic in late 2024, where it will provide devulcanization services to the other European HEXPOL Compounding sites to ensure that a broad customer base can join the circle. Hexpol Compounding reports that it has worked on using cured compound scrap and waste, which are unavoidable side products of rubber part production, for years. In the past, the converter paid for the disposal of their rubber waste, which often ended in landfills or was incinerated. In some cases, rubber waste was ground and reused, but until now, it was mainly used as a filler in low-quality applications. Devulcanization offers an opportunity to keep these valuable resources in circulation and reduce the demand for virgin materials. “Hexpol´s target is to reprocess cured rubber from post-industrial sources and reuse it for typical rubber applications in the automotive or building and construction industry”, explained Carsten Rüter, president of Hexpol Rubber Compounding Europe & Asia. “Instead of paying for disposal, we support our customers in transforming their rubber production offcuts into a new raw material with a reduced product carbon footprint.” Ralph Wolkener, President Hexpol Compounding Europe & Asia commented: “We are proud to offer a variety of compound solutions with recycled content already today. Soon, we will add rubber recycling to our services. Our customers are becoming our business partners in this process, which involves collecting and sorting their production side products, until Hexpol transforms them into devulcanized raw materials again. We believe our devulcanization process could also be extended to post-consumer rubber recycling”. Norbert Niemand, managing director at Hexpol Lesina added: “It is part of Hexpol’s service to adjust compound recipes based on devulcanized rubber and other renewable raw materials to achieve the same performance as compounds based on standard raw materials”. https://lnkd.in/e8fbKbuY

The rubber compounding arm of the Swedish Hexpol Group has invested in a devulcanization line in Europe. The company reports that this enables mechanical devulcanization of rubber in-house and supports the transition to a circular economy. Specifically, the investment will enable Hexpol Compounding to produce “several thousand tons of compounds with devulcanized rubber content per year” in Europe. Hexpol’s devulcanization process adds no additional chemicals. It involves solely the use of mechanical forces like shear, compression, and temperature to break down the crosslinking bonds of the cured rubber with the help of a specific extruder. The new extruder will be installed at the Hexpol Compounding site in the Czech Republic in late 2024, where it will provide devulcanization services to the other European HEXPOL Compounding sites to ensure that a broad customer base can join the circle. Hexpol Compounding reports that it has worked on using cured compound scrap and waste, which are unavoidable side products of rubber part production, for years. In the past, the converter paid for the disposal of their rubber waste, which often ended in landfills or was incinerated. In some cases, rubber waste was ground and reused, but until now, it was mainly used as a filler in low-quality applications. Devulcanization offers an opportunity to keep these valuable resources in circulation and reduce the demand for virgin materials. “Hexpol´s target is to reprocess cured rubber from post-industrial sources and reuse it for typical rubber applications in the automotive or building and construction industry”, explained Carsten Rüter, president of Hexpol Rubber Compounding Europe & Asia. “Instead of paying for disposal, we support our customers in transforming their rubber production offcuts into a new raw material with a reduced product carbon footprint.” Ralph Wolkener, President Hexpol Compounding Europe & Asia commented: “We are proud to offer a variety of compound solutions with recycled content already today. Soon, we will add rubber recycling to our services. Our customers are becoming our business partners in this process, which involves collecting and sorting their production side products, until Hexpol transforms them into devulcanized raw materials again. We believe our devulcanization process could also be extended to post-consumer rubber recycling”. Norbert Niemand, managing director at Hexpol Lesina added: “It is part of Hexpol’s service to adjust compound recipes based on devulcanized rubber and other renewable raw materials to achieve the same performance as compounds based on standard raw materials”. https://lnkd.in/epBaq35m