Unilever and Veolia announced that they have signed a collaboration agreement to jointly work on emerging technologies that will help create a circular economy on plastics across various geographies, starting in India and Indonesia.
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Active portfolio management and successfully meeting the need for more sustainable products and solutions, including in high-growth markets in China and the rest of Asia, are key to success and value creation in the specialty chemical sector, said Clariant CEO Conrad Keijzer in a keynote presentation at Chemical Week’s first-ever Specialty Strategies Forum, held online 14 April.
“In the last 10 years, Clariant has successfully repositioned its portfolio from a diversified, in part commodity-driven business, towards a focused and truly specialty chemicals business,” Keijzer said.
The Korean unit of the American food brand will also step up efforts to generate less waste and save water and energy to protect the environment. In line with this, the company will by 2025 have its all products wrapped with materials that can be recycled or converted into fertilizers.
Addressing the members of industriAll Europe’s Executive Committee today, Commissioner Breton expressed confidence in the capacity of European industry to emerge stronger and more resilient from the current crisis.
To achieve this, lessons must be drawn from the crisis, stressed the Commissioner. Several essential pre-conditions for a sustainable recovery are already evident: Europe’s strategic independence, a well-functioning internal market, accompanying Europe’s workforce through the green and digital transition through skills development, differentiated strategies for each industrial ecosystem that consider specific challenges as well as co-designing these strategies in a broad and inclusive dialogue with stakeholders, including trade unions.
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