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The funds will go towards turning forest industry sidestreams into bio-alternatives, replacing fossil-based ingredients in the chemical and cosmetics industries.

Nouryon announced it has started full-scale production at its new Expancel^® expandable microspheres plant in Green Bay, Wisconsin. 

More than any single piece of lab equipment, a successful R&D team’s most vital tool is a flexibility mindset.

Derived entirely from renewable castor seeds, Rilsan^® polyamide 11 is 100% segregated bio-based.

Lummus Technology has reached an agreement with Air Liquide Engineering & Construction to acquire rights to license and market ester-grade acrylic acid technology, and light and heavy acrylates process technology. 

Flexicon's new bulk bag discharger contains dust when connecting bag spouts and feeding material into vacuum conveying lines, preventing contamination of the product and plant environment.

A new acrylic TPE is suitable as an adhesive for masking tape, packaging, surface protection film, double-sided tape, as an anti-slip film, and it has a wide range of applications beyond adhesives.

Swelling temporarily increases the size of tubing or hose ends, making it easier to connect them to the fixtures and other components.

Research Nester released a report anticipating demand for hot-melt adhesives to grow substantially over various industries. 

PolyBERT treats chemical structures and connectivity of atoms as a form of chemical language and uses techniques inspired by natural language processing to extract the most meaningful information from chemical structures.