The concept of a circular economy, where materials are recycled and reused, is becoming increasingly important in consumer packaging, driven by regulatory requirements...
14.05.2020
- Canadian companies Nova Chemicals and Enerkem have entered into an agreement to explore turning non-recyclable and non-compostable municipal waste into ethylene. The firms will...
26.09.2019
- The Court of the Queen's Bench in Alberta, Canada, has signed a judgment ordering Nova Chemicals to pay Can$1.43 billion to Dow in a case related to the companies' jointly owned...
28.03.2018
- Nova Chemicals and Sunoco Partners Marketing & Terminals (SPMT), part of Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), have entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to...
19.04.2017
- Canada’s Nova Chemicals has agreed to pay $2.1 billion to acquire Williams’ 88.46% stake in the olefins plant at Geismar, Louisiana, in the US. The deal also includes undeveloped...
29.03.2017
- Another new mammoth petrochemicals and plastics project has been announced for the US state of Texas by non-US companies seeking to profit from access to inexpensive shale gas...
12.09.2016
- Canada’s Nova Chemicals has announced the mechanical completion of its PE1 expansion project at Joffre, Alberta. A third gas phase reactor capable of producing around 450,000 t/y...
17.01.2015
- As the UK government's push to repeat the US shale gas boom on its own soil moved up a notch in late 2014 with the sale of exploration licenses, Ineos revealed plans to expand...
