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Belgium: Total Completes the Upgrade of Its Largest Refining & Petrochemicals Platform in Europe

The Future of Plastics in the Circular Economy

On October 27, 2017, 20 international business newspapers published stories about 50 business solutions for attenuating climate change and promoting a circular economy...

Operation Clean Sweep® (OCS) Program

Total is engaged in the prevention of pellet loss and is a founding member of Operation Clean Sweep® (OCS), an international program to prevent pellet loss in the environment and to fight marine litter.

Total explores new routes for post-consumer recycled polystyrene in the circular economy world

Brussels, June 14, 2017 - Total has just completed an industrial scale test run demonstrating the feasibility of sustainable incorporation of about 20% of post-consumer recycled polystyrene within virgin polystyrene...

USA: $1.7 billion investment to expand Total’s petrochemicals activities in Texas

Paris, May 4, 2017 – Total is entering a partnership with Borealis and Nova to form a joint venture with the aim of building an ethane steam cracker and a new Borstar® polyethylene unit on the US Gulf Coast...

Polypropylene Materials for Sewerage & Drainage Pipes with Reduced Energy and Carbon Footprints

Driven by a global conscience about our influence on the planet’s current and future climate and the scarcity of resources to satisfy a growing global population, product design that takes into account the product’s impact...

Total Develops a New Grade of HDPE for Thermoforming Applications

Houston, March 2, 2017 – Total Petrochemicals and Refining USA, Inc. has generated excitement in the sheet extrusion thermoforming (SET) market with the introduction of high density polyethylene grade 9825E...

KWS, Wavin and Total Sign a Cooperation Agreement to Develop the PlasticRoad

Brussels, October 20, 2016 – VolkerWessels subsidiary KWS, Wavin and Total announced an agreement to develop the PlasticRoad, a unique concept to build plastic roads as a sustainable alternative to traditional asphalt roads...