Turning Greenhouse Gases into Chemicals

German Carbon2Chem aims at using emissions from steel production as raw material for chemicals. A pilot plant produces already synthetic fuel methanol and ammonia from steel mill gases. Ammonia is a chemical used to make fertilizers to improve food production. Steel mill gases come from steel production and contain, among other things, CO2. “It is […]

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New Global Alliance Launched

In January this year, global companies from the plastics and consumer goods value chain launched a new organization “to advance solutions to eliminate plastic waste in the environment, especially in the ocean”. The “Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW)”, currently made up of nearly thirty member companies, has committed over 1.0 billion US-Dollar with the […]

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Automobile Recycling in China Set to Grow

The “China End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV) and Dismantling Industry Report, 2018-2022” has been added to the offering of the market research store of the Irish company Research and Markets. As reported, automobile ownership has been climbing steadily in China over the recent years, at a compound annual growth rate of 15.2 percent between 2010 and 2017. […]

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Morocco: “Huge Potential for Investment”

Morocco’s National Program for Household Waste Management of 2008, funded by Dirham 40 billion (3.7 billion Euro), aimed at the improvement of waste collection and recycling as well as overhauling the country’s landfills. “The strategy has borne fruit, with official waste collection rates doubling from 44 percent to 85.2 percent between 2008 and 2016. This […]

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Gulf Countries: Economic Growth in 2019

The economic prospects for the six countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – look good. According to the latest World Economic Outlook projections of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from January, the countries of the Middle East and North Africa, as well […]

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