MOSCOW (MRC) -- Johnson Matthey promoting environmental protection and sustainability via Israeli innovation, said Chemweek.
"We hope that Israel creates such a vibrant development community that we will develop more and more technologies that we can deploy all around the world," said Maurits van Tol, Chief Technology Officer at Johnson Matthey.
"We hope that Israel creates such a vibrant development community that we will develop more and more technologies that we can deploy all around the world. Many of the problems that society's facing are global challenges and we want to be part of the solution," Maurits van Tol, Chief Technology Officer at Johnson Matthey said on Monday during Calcalist and ESIL Technologies’ Sustainability and Innovation Week.
Johnson Matthey, which has a USD17 billion turnover and 14,000 employees, is a British multinational speciality chemicals and sustainable technologies company. According to van Tol, 86% of the company's sales are related to the UN’s sustainable development goals.
"We provide catalytic converters for cars, for trucks, for marine applications, and static applications. But we're also very active in the hydrogen space, for example, hydrogen production, blue hydrogen, now moving into green hydrogen. And all kinds of technologies for the production of methanol that can help with the production of fertilizers. So we're a technology and catalyst provider in the sustainability technology space," explained van Tol.
Johnson Matthey is active in Israel and works in cooperation with ESIL Technologies' innovation lab in promoting environmental protection and sustainability.
"ESIL for us is really important as a window on the world in the innovation space, in the sustainability area. And it's of course connecting very strong partners, like Bazan, EDF and ourselves," added van Tol. "We hope to grow that ecosystem together through ESIL as a connecting vehicle. We want to make sure that this planet can continue to be inhabited in a very safe way by many more generations. And if we can contribute, through ESIL, then we'd love to do that."
As MRC wrote previously, in June 2019, Johnson Matthey (JM) announced that Ningxia Baofeng Energy Group had "successfully" commissioned a new methanol plant at Ningxia Baofeng's 600,000-t/y coal-to-olefins complex in Ningxia Province, China. The 6,600-t/d methanol unit, based on technology from JM, utilizes syngas feedstock and combines advanced JM catalysts to produce stabilized methanol, which is used to produce olefins in a downstream facility.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's DataScope report, PE imports to Russia dropped in January-June 2020 by 7% year on year to 328,000 tonnes. High density polyethylene (HDPE) accounted for the main decrease in imports. At the same time, PP imports into Russia rose in the first six months of 2020 by 21% year on year to 105,300 tonnes. Propylene homopolymer (homopolymer PP) accounted for the main increase in imports.
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