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The Department of Energy awarded Eastman Chemical Co. $375 million in grant funding this past year to build a molecular recycling plant at its existing facility just outside the Longview city limits.
As Eastman Chemical Co. prepares to expand its Longview-area plant with a $1.2 billion plastic recycling facility, a proposed air quality permit submitted to the Texas Commission on Environmental ...
EASTMAN, Ga. — Three people were hurt Wednesday afternoon, and one person was airlifted to the hospital after an explosion at a plant in Eastman, according to Eastman Fire Chief Scotty Whitten.
Staff Reports, Longview News-Journal Aug 18, 2019 Aug 18, 2019 Updated Aug 18, 2019 An incident at an AEP Southwestern Electric Power Co. substation near the Eastman Chemical Co. plant in Longview ...
Eastman Chemical Co. has requested a “presidential exemption” from a federal toxic pollution rule affecting the company’s plant just outside the Longview city limits. The Environmental ...
Last year it opened a smaller plant that uses glycolysis to break down PET. Eastman also feeds mixed plastic waste into its gasification plant in Kingsport to make hydrogen and carbon monoxide ...
Tennessee-based Eastman Chemical Co. bought the Indian Orchard plant in 2012 along with the rest of Solutia Corp., which had spun off from Monsanto, for $3.4 billion in cash. Saflex plastic ...
Eastman Chemical Co. is closing its polyvinyl butyral (PVB) resin plant in Trenton, Mich., in a move that will eliminate 80 jobs. Production at the plant will end at the end of December ...
Image This year, Eastman began operating one of the largest chemical plastic recycling plants in the world in Kingsport, Tenn.Credit...Jessica Tezak for The New York Times That methodology allows ...