Puracy launches new clean can packaging to eliminate single-use plastic

Puracy launches new clean can packaging to eliminate single-use plastic

Puracy, the leading plant-based household cleaning and personal care brand, announces the launch of its Clean Can and Clean Can Starter Kit, the brand’s new sustainably-focused product that completely eliminates single-use plastic, said Nspackaging.

Puracy’s Clean Can utilizes the simplicity of a standard beverage can in a patent-pending cleaning system. Filled with the same natural, plant-based formula, this mindful innovation is part of Puracy’s larger mission – to create eco-friendly and safe, yet convenient and efficient, products for conscious consumers.

Just in time for Earth Day, Puracy’s product ingenuity addresses common concerns about how the consumer can be more responsible with the products we use. Puracy designed the Clean Can and Starter Kit to provide an affordable, planet-friendly option for shoppers, while also making it even easier to use and store. Unlike anything on the market, Clean Cans are 100% aluminum and infinitely recyclable, making it one of the most convenient refill formats ever designed and setting a new standard for the rest of the industry. Beginning this month, Puracy’s Clean Can and Starter Kit will launch its award-winning Everyday Surface Cleaner formula in refreshing scents like Green Tea and Lime and Organic Lemongrass, priced at USD9.99 for a Starter Kit, including one can cartridge of Surface Cleaner, and $3.99 for additional can cartridges.

“Since the beginning, we’ve been committed to making natural, effective products to clean your world and everything the world throws at it,” said Sean Busch, Co-founder of Puracy. “The Clean Can system is an extension of our dedication to delivering products to customers that don’t create extra effort and also give them the opportunity to make a positive change for our planet.”

Refills and concentrates for household products have surged in popularity, to help reduce single-use plastic; however, many of these options require extra steps, are bothersome to store, and often produce additional messes. Based on consumer insights, Puracy specifically designed the ready-to-use Clean Cans to be a frictionless solution that allows you to get back to cleaning in 10 seconds or less. Simply crack open the can, snap into the system, and you’re ready to go! The simple, yet clever design allows consumers to eliminate single-use products, making a greater impact on our planet as a whole. This is just the beginning, follow along as Puracy begins to roll out Clean Cans for its full suite of offerings.

We remind, more than 120 European packaging industry associations issued a joint letter urging co-legislators to preserve the internal market legal basis of the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation in its entirety, as the best way to achieve the environmental and economic objectives of the proposal. The internal market legal basis addresses the differences among the various national rules on the management of packaging and packaging waste and resulting internal market barriers, while providing a high level of environmental protection.

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North American chemical railcar traffic rose 0.6%

North American chemical railcar traffic rose 0.6%

North American chemical railcar traffic rose 0.6% year on year to 46,491 loadings for the week ended 15 April, marking a first increase after six straight weekly declines, according to the latest freight rail data from Association of American Railroads.

For the first 15 weeks of 2023 ended 15 April, North American chemical rail traffic was down 3.6% year on year to 681,324, with US traffic down 6.6%, to 483,907 loadings.

In the US, chemical railcar loadings represent about 20% of chemical transportation by tonnage, with trucks, barges and pipelines carrying the rest. In Canada, chemical producers rely on rail to ship more than 70% of their products, with some exclusively using rail.

We remind, North American chemical railcar traffic fell for a sixth straight week, with loadings for the week ended 8 April down 9.3% year on year to 44,298, driven by a 10.3% decline in the US. For the first 14 weeks of 2023 ended 8 April, North American chemical rail traffic was down 3.9% year on year to 634,833 railcar loadings, with US traffic down 7.0%, to 450,701 loadings.

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Innovation accelerates drive to sustainability

Innovation accelerates drive to sustainability

This week, it’s worth taking the time to highlight the progress that’s been made in recent years to create a more sustainable world, and to reflect on the challenges that still lie ahead, said Hydrocarbonprocessing.

The reality is that climate change poses a very real threat to life as we know it, and we must all work together if we hope to address it. For asset-intensive industries, one of the most powerful steps in addressing that threat is the energy transition – shifting the energy system away from fossil fuels and toward renewable power sources.

While it’s far from an overnight process, the good news is that progress is clearly being made. Nearly one third of all electricity today comes from renewable sources, billions are being invested in new renewable projects around the globe and a growing number of companies are turning to electrification with renewable power to help reduce their carbon footprint, to cite just a few examples. Though challenges still exist, it’s increasingly clear going forward that technology and innovation will play a key role in helping to overcome them.

Simply by implementing technologies that already exist, many asset-intensive industries are seeing significant reduction in their greenhouse gas emissions. One example comes in the form of easy-to-implement sustainability models. When combined with industrial optimization software, those models can help companies jumpstart their progress across a host of sustainability targets, from emissions management to the use of renewable energy and more. Those models, however, are just the start.

To help drive sustainability efforts across specific focus areas, AspenTech has also laid out a series of sustainability pathways, ranging from well-understood approaches like energy efficiency and emissions reduction to emerging technologies like carbon capture and renewable energy to future pathways, including the use of CO2 as feedstock and advanced plastics recycling.

Those pathways, however, also represent targets for innovation. Using advanced modeling and simulation, companies can identify the best, most economic and most scalable processes for the production of green hydrogen or carbon capture utilization and storage before making expensive capital investments.

And once those innovative assets are up and running, digitalization solutions exist that can help companies make faster, better-informed operational decisions as the work to curb emissions.

Real-time decision-support software, built using operational insights technology, can make it easy for companies across asset-intensive industries to bring together data from across the enterprise, visualize and analyze it and take action on items that have the most impact on emissions and waste reduction.

Those innovations, however, don’t exist in a vacuum. For “the energy transition to happen fast enough to truly have an impact at the scale and timeline that’s required sustainability technology to truly have an impact on the global scale that’s required, collaboration and co-innovation between industry and digital technology innovators will be critical.

While the notion of collaboration between digital solution providers and customers has long been an established part of business, increasingly companies are building partner ecosystems to accelerate projects around the world or co-innovate with start-ups as they develop new sustainability technology. Already, some companies are using technology to overcome significant challenges in their industries.

We remind, Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL) recently launched a project to process 10 percent of all used cooking oil in India as part of an effort to produce greener fuels. The problem, however, was that different oils had different chemical properties, some of which created challenges to the way refineries operate.

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Amcor to shut down Chile flexible packages plant

Amcor plans to shut down its flexible packages plant in Santiago Norte, Chile, on the back of a “difficult industrial and economic” environment, the company said.

A spokesperson for the company said Amcor’s capsule business in Chile was not affected by the announcement. “Despite our continued efforts, the Santiago Norte flexibles plant has struggled to maintain viable operations in a difficult industrial and economic environment,” said the Amcor spokesperson.

“The plant will continue to operate until 30 June. It has been a very difficult decision and we are doing everything we can to support our flexible packaging team and our customers through the process." Earlier in April, the IMF forecast Chile’s GDP would decrease by 1% in 2023, although that was an improvement from its prior forecast of minus 1.5%.

The country’s economy has been slowing down in past quarters, although GDP in 2022 grew by 2.4% overall. Growth, however, came mostly from services sectors, while chemicals and the wider manufacturing industries posted declines in output.

Melbourne-headquartered Amcor produces flexible packaging, rigid containers, specialty cartons, and closures, and serves several industries such food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical-device, home, and personal care, among others.

According to the company’s website, it posted USD15bn in sales in 2022, employs 44,000 workers, and operates 220 sites in 43 countries.

Polymers widely used in the packaging sector include polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).

“The polymer industry, to be honest, really has to get their act together because otherwise they will be regulated out of the market by regulators or by the market itself,” said Gerald Rebitzer, speaking to delegates at the conference.

We remind, Amcor plc announced its Amcor Australia & New Zealand (ANZ) business has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Australian-based technology pioneers, Licella Holdings Ltd (Licella), to invest in one of Australia’s first plastic advanced recycling facilities. As one of the first advanced recycling facilities to be built in Australia, the agreement supports Amcor and Licella’s commitment to creating a local circular economy for soft plastics in Australia and helps advance Amcor’s target to achieve 30% recycled content across its portfolio by 2030.

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Keppel, ExxonMobil to explore low-carbon ammonia solutions for Singapore

Keppel, ExxonMobil to explore low-carbon ammonia solutions for Singapore

Keppel Infrastructure and ExxonMobil Asia Pacific have signed an agreement to develop access to low-carbon hydrogen and ammonia for scalable commercial and industrial applications in Singapore, said Reuters.

Keppel Infrastructure (KI) is the infrastructure arm of Singapore-based global asset manager and operator Keppel Corp. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the two companies follows the Singapore government’s launch of its national hydrogen strategy in October last year, which expects hydrogen to meet up to half of Singapore’s power needs by 2050.

"As part of this hydrogen strategy, the Energy Market Authority and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore issued an expression of interest in December for proposals to build, own and operate low- or zero-carbon power generation and bunkering facilities on Jurong Island," KI said in a statement.

In addition to being a hydrogen carrier and storage medium, ammonia can be used directly as a carbon-free fuel or broken down into carbon-free hydrogen for use in power generation, as well as feedstock for refinery and petrochemical operations.

Currently, natural gas meets most of Singapore’s power generation demand.

We remind, ExxonMobil Corp has started up its long-planned project to expand light crude oil processing capacity by 250,000 b/d at ExxonMobil Product Solutions Co's integrated refining and petrochemicals complex along the US Gulf Coast in Beaumont, TX, US.

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