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🇺🇸 In 2018, we established FluoroFusion Specialty Chemicals, Inc., a 100% U.S.-owned company dedicated to tackling the 1.6% HFC reclaim rate and combatting carbon pollution. Proudly not a part of any foreign multinational or U.S. subsidiary, we thrive in the innovation hotbed that is the U.S. 🔬 With five (5) U.S. patents and numerous pending patents, our focus is on developing processes that safeguard U.S. air and water supplies. We fully support the U.S. EPA's American Innovation and Manufacturing Act, advocating for sustainable practices in the chemical industry and responsible life cycle management of refrigerants. 💡 Understanding the challenges, we press on, knowing foreign companies may prefer selling "Virgin" materials that are vented into the U.S. air and water supplies. Yet, we persist in our mission to bring cutting-edge technology to the U.S. and contribute to the fight against climate change. 🌍 Our Carbon Reduction Series product line is a testament to our commitment. Kudos to our customers and partners who share our vision, prioritizing American-based manufacturing and innovation. 🙌 #FluoroFusion #ClimateAction #Innovation #USManufacturing #CarbonReduction #EPA #Sustainability

We’re throwing back to our Essen Goldschmidt site proudly achieving the ISCC - International Sustainability and Carbon Certification PLUS. This prestigious milestone underscores our commitment to🌱sustainability by recognizing our use of renewable resources in our PU stabilization surfactant production. 🏅 Our TEGOSTAB® additives are essential for high-quality polyurethane foams found in everyday items like mattresses, refrigerators, insulation panels, and even in transportation and mobility applications like seating and dashboards. Through a mass balance approach and utilizing sustainable feedstocks, we ensure that these products are not only top-performing but also contribute to greener, more responsible supply chains. 🔄 For those who missed it or want to revisit, check out our press release 📰 https://lnkd.in/e6RAsXpv to learn how we're supporting our customers to meet their environmental goals while maintaining, or even enhancing performance. #throwbackthursday #RenewableResources #Innovation #Chemistry #ISCCPlus #Polyurethanes #PU #Surfactants #MassBalance #SustainableDevelopment #Environment #Emissions #Evonik

PFAs, commonly known as "forever chemicals," have posed significant health and environmental risks for some time. Today, the EPA introduced new drinking water standards for PFAs and addressed their presence in landfills and leachate. But did you know Raven SR has a groundbreaking solution for PFAs? Our patented Steam/CO2 Reforming technology offers a game-changing approach that eliminates PFAs when converting waste into renewable fuels. Through our non-combustion process, we employ high heat levels that effectively eradicate PFAs, ensuring they're gone for good. What's more, Raven's innovative process can simultaneously convert multiple waste streams without the need for separation. Whether it's carpeting, plastics, clothing, or other items containing PFAs, we can utilize them as feedstock to produce renewable fuels. Together, we can make PFAs forever gone. Fueling A Cleaner Future. Read more in Waste Dive's article: https://lnkd.in/gSH-fBSb #EnvironmentalInnovation #RenewableEnergy #SustainableFuture #EPA #PFAs.

Our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) 2022-23 report has been released! Every day, we strive to create a safer world with our tools, solutions and expertise. We actively support our customers by providing products and services that help them achieve their sustainability goals and lower their environmental impacts. Our PestiMix kit combines 739 analytes for liquid chromatography (LC) and 431 analytes for gas chromatography (GC) in just five ampoules. This helps reduce the environmental impact of undertaking quality assurance and calibration in laboratories, including a reduction of: ⬇ Solvents for in-laboratory sample preparation ⬇ In-laboratory plastic waste ⬇ Electricity and HVAC usage for fume-hoods Read the full report to learn more about LGC’s ESG efforts: https://okt.to/1Estuq #ScienceForASaferWorld #ESG #sustainability #PestiMix #SmartSolutions

To address the growing usage of organic chemicals for advanced process cleanliness, #TSMC works with its suppliers to optimize the High-gravity Rotating Packed Bed equipment. The results? COD emissions cut by 99,635 kgs in two months! And that's not all. Our efforts have also brought over NT$400 million in cost savings to our operations. Click to learn more! #GreenManufacturing #Innovation #WaterManagement

So far, pyrolysis and gasification are the only two chemical recycling pathways described to work for mixed plastic waste streams. There is a third way – cracking. A solid waste cracker operates at temperatures between a pyrolysis reactor and a gasifier and produces a product gas that is rich in C2 to C7 molecules, very similar to a Naphtha steam cracker furnace. It therefore enables a significantly shorter recycling loop than pyrolysis and gasification to produce the targeted circular monomers, avoiding additional reaction steps and the associated plastic-to-plastic yield losses. Operating at the “just right” temperature also ensures that unwanted heteroatoms present in the waste like O, N, S, and Cl end up predominantly in small molecules, that can be separated from the circular monomer streams using industry-proven gas-cleaning technologies. Our CEO Joerg Krueger will be speaking about this unique chemical recycling solution developed by SYNOVA and its partners at ERTC 2023 (https://lnkd.in/dwASgmH). Don’t miss it! #SynovaTech #temperature #cracking #pyrolysis #gasification #chemicalrecycling #circulareconomyforplastics #sustainability #technology #advancedrecycling #ERTC23 #ERTC #conference

In my previous position, we performed a technology landscape study in order to investigate different technology options that could be used to achieve plastic circularity in South Africa. Many technology options came up in the open literature and it was evident that a lot of R&D was happening in the pyrolysis space. Pyrolysis is a challenging technology to achieve plastic circularity due to the fact that it needs a relatively clean feed stock i.e. expensive (and limited) feedstock that then economically competes with mechanical recycling. Additionally, pyrolysis oil needs to be further cracked in a naphtha cracker in order to obtain the monomer building blocks for polymer re-synthesis. The naphtha cracker makes the economics challenging for green field installations as well as resulted in a complicated process flowsheet for brown field installations. During the landscape study, the technology proposed by Synova Tech, did not feature. Upon further analysis, I do however see that it proposes an elegant solution to achieve plastic circularity and hits the sweet spot between pyrolysis and gasification. Using a unique reactor configuration and gas clean-up process, the Synova cracking technology can process a wide variety of waste (unlike pyrolysis) and directly extract the valuable monomers from the waste without the need for a further cracking step as required by pyrolysis or synthesis step as required by high temperature gasification. I’m interested in Synova’s technology development and the role that it can play in achieving plastic circularity and will be watching with anticipation.