Food Packaging

Lotte Ineos to Build Third VAM Plant in Korea

Lotte Ineos Chemical, a joint venture of South Korea’s Lotte Chemical and UK-managed Ineos, has announced plans to increase overall production capacity for vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) to 700,000 t/y from 450,000 t/y currently.

LyondellBasell Progresses German Advanced Recycling Plan

LyondellBasell (LYB) said it is moving ahead with engineering for a commercial scale advanced plastics waste recycling plant it intends to build at its Wesseling, Germany, production site together with Germany’s 23 Oaks Investments.

FDA Bans Three Toxic Food Packaging Chemicals

Corbion and Perstorp Develop Joint Product

Kuraray Expands into Bio-based Barrier Materials

Plastics Producers Call French BPA Report “Unrealistic”

DuPont to Lift Output of Ethylene Copolymers in Texas

Protecting and Conserving Food, Water and Energy

Bisphenol A: FDA To Decide On Chemical Used In Food Packaging