This week, Pyrum Innovations AG announced that funding for a planned tire pyrolysis plant in Greece had been fully secured following an EU grant to its partner, Thermo Lysi SA. The grant from the European Innovation Fund totals €29.4 million will help to fund the facility located in the Livantes region, about 140 km north of Athens. In a press release, Pyrum said that all of the necessary building and environmental permitting had already been completed, and that engineering was in full...

Smithers has announced that the Carbon Black World 2026 conference will be held in Shanghai, China on April 22-23, 2026. The conference will be a hybrid in-person/virtual event. The Carbon Black World conference is held every year; this year it was held in Fort Worth, Texas. It brings together people from leading tire, MRG, carbon black, feedstock, and equipment companies for what is always a terrific meeting. And don't forget the Recovered Carbon Black Europe conference, being held next...

The BBC reports that a meeting of more than 100 countries in London on Friday failed to reach approval on the International Maritime Organization's Net-Zero Framework for global shipping after opposition from the US, Saudi Arabia, and Russia. The London meeting had been planned to formally approve the framework, a draft of which was passed in April 2025 at the Marine Environment Protection Committee's 83 session (MEPC 83). The IMO regulations would have gone into effect in 2028 and set...