WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.— A more sustainable, plant-based alternative to petroleum-based monoethylene glycol (MEG), commonly used as antifreeze and to produce plastics, will soon be produced in Lafayette.

Surging textile needs and rigid packaging expansion define the current landscape. Global manufacturers increase capacity to meet 2025 targets. Supply chains stabilize while pricing fluctuates based on ...

Dutch biotechnology company Avantium NV has started up a 10 metric tons-per-year pilot unit for the production of plant-based MEG (mono-ethylene glycol) in Chemie Park Delfzij, in the northeast of the ...

LAFAYETTE, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sustainea and Primient announced a co-location partnership for the supply of corn dextrose from Primient’s facility in Lafayette, Indiana to Sustainea’s first Bio-MEG ...

Sustainea, a company focused on sustainable chemistry, will locate its first U.S. operations in Indiana, investing $400 million to establish its first Bio-MEG (monoethylene glycol) industrial plant in ...

Braskem, the Americas’ leading producer of thermoplastic resins, and Danish-based Haldor Topsoe, a world leader in catalysts and surface science, have signed a technological cooperation agreement to ...

MEGlobal International, a subsidiary of Kuwait’s Equate Petrochemical, has officially started up MEGlobal Americas’s monoethylene glycol plant that recently finished construction at Dow Chemical’s ...

MEGlobal International has inaugurated subsidiary MEGlobal Americas Inc.’s monoethylene glycol plant that recently completed construction at Dow Chemical’s currently expanding Oyster Creek ...

Dozens of workers at the export terminal on the Norwegian island of Melkoya got ill from exposure to vented gas from tanks storing monoethylene glycol, a probe by the operator revealed. Image by ...