Tag: Mitsubishi Corporation

The World’s First Initiative for Bio-Paraxylene origin “Biomass to PET Bottles”

Stuart Mitchell

Mitsubishi Corporation, is pleased to announce that MC, Suntory Holdings Limited and ENEOS Corporation have reached an agreement to build a supply chain for sustainable PET bottles derived from biomass *1 such as used cooking oil applying a mass balance approach*2 to allocate bio-based materials . The supply chain is as follows, and bio-based feedstock supplied by NESTE Corporation (President: Matti Lehmus, hereinafter “NESTE”) will be used as a raw material to replace fossil naphtha. ① NESTE will supply bio-based feedstock produced from to replace fossil naphtha. manufactures bio-naphtha from…

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Mitsubishi Corporation Renews Funding for Sustainable Development and Biodiversity Conservation

Stuart Mitchell

On November 23, 2021, the Board of Directors of the Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation for the Americas (MCFA) approved renewed funding to: CDP, to expand its Matchmaker platform to Chilean cities to help grow the capacity of cities to advance sustainable, equitable urban infrastructure; The Nature Conservancy, to engage with emerging technology companies developing sensor-based technologies to monitor conditions for conservation needs in US coastal regions; Fair Trade USA, to develop geospatial farm analysis and coaching systems to enable mapping of environmental impacts such as deforestation and carbon capture on Fair…

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