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INEOS Styrolution America LLC Receives ISCC PLUS Certification for Sustainable Plastics
INEOS Styrolution America, achieved an important milestone in their commitment to a circular economy for plastics. The company received ISCC Plus certification from ISCC (International Sustainability & Carbon Certification) for its manufacturing sites in (Channahon) Illinois, (Texas City) Texas, and (Altamira) Mexico. The recent commercialization of several advanced recycling technologies means that plastic waste once destined for a landfill can be recycled back into its raw material for infinite use. Thus making closed-loop products a reality. This certification supports the use of advanced recycling technology and bio-attributed feedstocks for the production of recycled polystyrene and other styrenic products. Recycled or bio-attributed products certified by the ISCC PLUS standard use a…
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Ineos styrolution confirms its investment decision for europe’s first polystyrene advanced recycling pilot plant
Joint collaboration with Recycling Technologies, UK Europe’s first advanced chemical polystyrene recycling facility is expected to be operational in the second half of 2022 INEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, has today confirmed its decision to invest into a pilot plant for advanced recycling of polystyrene. The site will be set up in collaboration with Recycling Technologies in Swindon, UK. It is expected to be operational in the second half of 2022. The decision announced today is a significant step forward launching polystyrene recycling through depolymerisation technology. Depolymerisation is an advanced recycling technology that converts polystyrene waste feedstock back into its main building block, Styrene which can then…
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INEOS Styrolution and University Bayreuth continue successful R&D cooperation
University Bayreuth acquires extruder from INEOS Styrolution to support further research projects New extruder elevates the University of Bayreuth to a new level in plastics compounding INEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, and the University of Bayreuth continue their long-established R&D collaboration preparing for future projects. A new twin screw extruder will allow the university to perform plastics compounding at a new level. INEOS Styrolution looks back at almost eight years of collaborating with the University of Bayreuth on various R&D projects to unleash the full power of styrenics materials. Initial projects were focused on optimising materials for selected industries and applications. More recently, the focus has shifted to…
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INEOS Styrolution awarded Platinum rating for 2nd year running
· Position in the top 1% of companies of all assessed companies retained · Overall sustainability score of 77 is an improvement over last year · Special recognition given to the company’s advanced sustainability management INEOS Styrolution has received a platinum rating by EcoVadis for its exemplary corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance. This is the second consecutive year that the company has been awarded the highest distinction, retaining its place in the top 1% of over 75,000 companies assessed by EcoVadis. EcoVadis evaluates companies across four categories: environment, labour and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement. INEOS Styrolution’s overall score of 77 out of 100 across these four categories is…
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INEOS Styrolution named finalist in Chemical Week Sustainability Awards
INEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, today announced that it has been chosen by Chemical Week as a finalist in the magazine’s sustainability awards 2021 in the category “best sustainable feedstock initiative”. The INEOS business was nominated as a finalist for its bio-attribution approach to use renewable feedstock in its petrochemical installations, developed together with the INEOS Group and Scandinavian bio-refineries. Using this approach, the company has taken steps to substitute fossil with renewable feedstock to produce Styrolux® ECO and Styroflex® ECO, the world’s first specialty grades made from kitchen waste and wood waste. Therefore, this feedstock does not compete with food nor with land use. This method reduces…
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EU LIFE Project „ABSolutely Circular“ recognised by the European Commission’s Innovation Radar
. Market maturity of the innovation is categorised as “Market ready” Market creation of the innovation is categorised as “The innovation addresses the needs of existing markets/ existing customers” The EU LIFE Project “ABSolutely Circular”, addressing ABS production from chemically recycled PS waste, has been featured by the European Commission’s Innovation Radar and will be showcased on the organisation’s website[1] as one of “the great EU-funded innovations”. Project partner INEOS Styrolution has been identified as “Key Innovator” by the organization. Petra Inghelbrecht, Global Sustainability Manager at INEOS Styrolution and project leader for the ABSolutely Circular research project, comments: “This recognition is a strong motivation for all partners participating in this…
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INEOS Styrolution celebrates its 10th birthday
. From idea to joint venture to successful enterprise in a decade INEOS Styrolution bases growth and commercial success on thorough and focused execution of our corporate strategy INEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, celebrates the company’s tenth anniversary on October 1, 2021. Time to look back at ten successful years; time to look ahead at what will be next. On October 1, 2011, Styrolution was established as a joint venture between INEOS and BASF. Three years later, the organisation became a wholly-owned company within the INEOS Group and changed its name to INEOS Styrolution to reflect the new ownership. INEOS Styrolution has been on a growth path since…
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Custom Profile selects INEOS Styrolution Styroflex® 4G80 for its next medical tubing e-commerce solution
Advantages with production, performance, and regulatory compliance make INEOS Styrolution’s Styroflex 4G80, the clear material of choice for Custom Profile’s medical tubing market Custom Profile, a leading manufacturer of thermoplastic profile extrusions and sub-assemblies, has selected Styroflex 4G80 from INEOS Styrolution, the global leader of styrenics, to supply medical device designers with safe and innovative, next generation medical tubing options. Styroflex 4G80, a styrene butadiene block copolymer (SBC) has the ability to be processed into a variety of tubing sizes, offering engineers an alternative to existing medical tubing options. It is both a styrene-based thermoplastic elastomer (S-TEP, TPE-S) and a styrene butadiene styrene styrene-block copolymer (SBSS). The material provides cost…
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Edge solutions and INEOS Styrolution collaborate to develop innovative protection for operational wind farms
Ultra-tough and aerodynamically optimal ‘erosion shield’ Improved aerodynamics leads to increased annual energy production Solution is based on INEOS Styrolution’s Luran® SC material INEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, and Edge Solutions, a Dundee-based innovator dedicated to the optimisation of wind energy generation, announce today the development of armourEDGE protection for wind turbine blades based on a customised version of INEOS Styrolution’s Luran® SC material. ‘Leading edge erosion’ is a serious issue with large commercial wind turbine blades. It is caused by environmental impacts including rain, hail, ice, salt and UV. Such damage of the blade surface leads to increased drag and ultimately to reduced energy production.…
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INEOS Styrolution publishes 2020 sustainability report
. · Report highlights progress towards circular and low-carbon economy · Expansion of the company’s ECO product portfolio helps customers to meet their sustainability targets INEOS Styrolution’s sixth sustainability report provides a comprehensive review of the company’s established environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance, with a focus on the scale up of its recycling activities and measures to reduce its carbon footprint. This year’s report includes an overview of the company’s contribution to the fight against COVID-19. Since the publication of the company’s first qualitative report on sustainability back in 2015, INEOS Styrolution has demonstrated consistent improvements, resulting in a platinum rating by EcoVadis in 2020. This places INEOS Styrolution…
