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          Direct Pack, Inc. Expands American                                       India Glycols Ltd And

          Manufacturing Operations In Mexico                                     SC&T  Partners  For
                                                                                 Sustainable Chemicals



                                                                                    hell Catalysts & Technologies
                                                                                 S(SC&T) has supported India
                                                                                 Glycols Ltd (IGL) on its journey
                                                                                 of  profitable growth in sustainable
                                                                                 chemicals, by providing new generation
                                                                                 catalysts needed to produce ethylene
                                                                                 oxide (EO). IGL is a leading company
                                                                                 in the production of  sustainable
                                                                                 intermediate chemicals such as green
                                                                                 EO, mono-ethylene glycol (MEG) and
                                                                                 a wide range of speciality chemical
                                                                                 products, produced from bio-based
               irect Pack, Inc. (DPI), a leader  consumer recycled PET plastic thanks   ethanol. SC&T has formulated EO
          Din sustainable, full circular,  to the continuous operations across   catalysts that provide exceptional
          thermoformed plastic packaging,  our  manufacturing  facilities."Direct   performance of high selectivity and
          announced today that it has expanded  Pack Baja Direct Pack Baja is a 200,000    stability under IGL specific operating
          its North American manufacturing  sq. ft. facility that is capable of PET    conditions which can be challenging
          operations with the opening of Direct  solid-state polymerization, sheet   due to the bio ethylene feed derived
          Pack Baja in  Mexicali, Mexico. The  extrusion, thermoforming, automated   from  ethanol.  A  high  EO  catalyst
          company was able to build, equip and  labeling application, warehousing   selectivity results in direct variable cost
          staff the new facility in a short 10-months  and distribution. Production of   savings as less feedstock (i.e. ethylene)
          and is now able to supply a higher  thermoformed food packaging for    is consumed to manufacture products.
          percentage of  their North American  supermarket,  foodservice,  growers
          customer partners with products built in  and processor customers started in
          the region. This has also better positioned  September. Direct Pack Baja will employ
          the  company to  meet  its  customer  as many as 80 people during the full
          obligations in spite of the current global  rollout of the production equipment,
          supply chain challenges. The other  which will take place over the next five
          DPI manufacturing facilities, including  months. The addition of Direct Pack
          Sun Valley CA, Rockingham, NC and  Baja allows DPI to further expand its full
          Guadalajara, Mexico, are all operating  circular business model. The company
          three-shifts, resulting in a fourfold  actively works with material recovery   Through being a serial early-adopter
          increase in North American production  facilities (MRFs) to collect used PET   of   new  EO  catalysts  from  SC&T,
          capacity in the last 24-months. "As we  plastic clamshells and other packaging –   IGL’s production unit has been able to
          continue to grow our operations, we  both their own and from other suppliers   continuously improve its product yield
          remain focused and deeply committed  – and using it to make new packaging.   and lower overall production variable
          to sustainability and innovation with  When recycled, PET plastic is an infinite   costs. The most recent charge of Shell
          full emphasis of "Circularity" and an  resource. "As we receive consolidated   High Selectivity EO Catalyst S-889
          ultimate goal of making PET plastic an  bales of post-consumer thermoforms   started up in July 2020 and achieved
          infinite resource," said Craig Snedden,  from our MRFs partners, we are seeing   92% selectivity combined with excellent
          President of Direct Pack, Inc. "In the  a very high percentage of our own DPI   stability that has enabled the unit to
          last 24 months, DPI has recycled and  products coming back to us in post-  extend its production cycle. This is the
          reused 36 million pounds of  post- consumer form," said Snedden.       fifth charge of S-889 catalyst.


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