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Neste, Idemitsu Kosan, CHIMEI and Mitsubishi Corporation join forces to create a renewable plastics supply chain

Neste, Idemitsu Kosan, CHIMEI and Mitsubishi Corporation have agreed to build a renewable plastics supply chain utilizing bio-based hydrocarbons (Neste RE) for the production of styrene monomer (i.e. bio-SM), and its mass balanced renewable plastics derivatives including acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (i.e. bio-ABS*). The bio-SM production in Japan and the renewable plastics production in Taiwan will mark the first of such production in each country, and they are planned to take place in the first half of 2023. Renewable plastics supply chain Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable and circular feedstock for the polymers and chemicals industry uses, will provide ... Read more