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Rebound Plastic Exchange launched
REBOUND, A SUBSIDIARY of
Abu Dhabi's International Holding
Company (IHC) established
last January to create an innovative
solution for plastic pollution
announced 5 September
that it had launched Rebound
Plastic Exchange (RPX), a global
B2B digital trading platform
for recycled plastics. Rebound
Plastic Exchange introduces
globally recognised standards,
certification, insurance, and
quality assurance into the supply
chain. The platform aims to
increase the eff iciency of recycling
plastic at scale, provide
new economic opportunities
and reduce the impact of plastic
pollution - unlocking a global
business opportunity worth of
AED 56 billion, said IHC.
In her keynote, Maryam Al
Mansoori, general manager at
recyclable plastic trade. "
To ensure continuous transRebound
launches RPX, a digital trading platform for recycled plastics.
Rebound, said, " RPX was envisioned
to bring trust and quality
assurance amongst buyers
and sellers. Our digital platform
provides companies and
nations with a vital benchmark
for their capacity to adopt and
trade quality assured plastics,
equip them with frameworks
Henkel inaugurates new
Inspiration Center Düsseldorf
Henkel's new Inspiration Center
5 SEPTEMBER saw the inauguration
of Henkel's new
Inspiration Center Düsseldorf
(ICD), located at its corporate
headquarters site. Representing
an investment of some €130
million, the Adhesive Technologies
business unit built a global
innovation and customer centre
over the past few years that it
has gradually been commissioning
since mid-2021. With
a floor area of 47,000 square
meters, the ICD provides space
for 30 laboratories, 4 technology
centres and more than 650
Henkel experts. At the same
time, the new building serves
as a global customer centre for
the Adhesive Technologies unit
where it can collaborate with
its customers from over 800
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industry segments
on the development
of new, sustainable
solutions
- products that
enable resource
eff iciency in production
and during
use throughout
the entire life cycle
and that are based
on renewable or recycled raw
materials. In addition, Henkel
off ers a growing portfolio for
the recyclability of, for example,
packaging or consumer goods
and the repairability of everyday
products, and is working
intensively on new debonding
solutions to drive eff icient
debonding of a wide range of
materials across industries,
thereby increasing longevity
and recyclability.
The ICD is the most sustainable
building at the company's
site in Düsseldorf. It is
designed to be resource-eff icient,
has a rainwater collection
system, highly eff icient
refrigeration technology and
meets the highest building insulation
requirements.
September/October 2022
Left: Christoph Gahn, Vice President Chemical Recycling Business &
Technologies BASF; right: Marco Tomasi Morgano, CTO Arcus
BASF SE has concluded a
framework agreement for the
purchase of pyrolysis oil from
mixed plastic waste with Arcus
Greencycling Technologies
GmbH, a technology
company based in Ludwigsburg,
Germany. Under the
agreement, Arcus will supply
BASF with pyrolysis oil and
expand its capacities in the
coming years. BASF will use
the oil in its production plants
as a raw material for the production
of Ccycled products.
The Arcus process demonstration
unit in Frankfurt produces
pyrolysis oil from mixed
plastic waste as the first of its
kind to do so on a commercial
scale in Germany. The agreement
foresees production ultimately
of up to 100,000 tonnes
of pyrolysis oil per year.
The agreement secure the
feedstock supply needed by
BASF for the expansion of its
ChemCycling business, which
focuses on the chemical recycling
at industrial scale of
hard-to-recycle post-consumer
plastic waste for the production
of its mass-balanced
Ccycled product portfolio.
to facilitate exchange, and
highlight the tangible benefits
of transparent plastic trading.
Overall, the platform inherently
complements governments'
commitments to the Basel Convention's
Amendments on the
trade of plastic and enhances
the responsible participation in
parency whilst facilitating cross
border trades, RPX will run
specification sheets, endorsed
by industry membership association
RECOUP, that are tailored
according to each listing
found on the RPX B2B marketplace.
These specification
sheets were developed by a
group of industry experts led by
Prof. Edward Kosior, managing
director of Nextek.
RPX will also implement an
innovative passporting system
to operate an end-to-end digital
certification according to global
standards. Industry members in
the Middle East, North America,
Latin America, India, Southeast
Asia and Europe have already
subscribed to the Rebound
Plastic Exchange.
BASF and Arcus sign
framework agreement
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