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More than 110 participants from 18 countries met last week in Nuremberg (and online) for two days to report on success stories and developments in the realm of sustainable plastics and the toys made from them.

Newlight Technologies (Huntington Beach, CA, USA) is excited to announce the newest line extension to its family of AIRCARBON home-compostable straws – Aircarbon Straws in black – advancing the company's mission to help end climate change in this generation by creating products that work for people and the planet.

WinCup (Stone Mountain, GA, USA), recently announced that the company has sold 1 billion phade® straws, the world’s first marine biodegradable, home and industrial compostable drinking straw.

Ingevity (North Charleston, SC, USA) will participate in the European Coatings Show 2023 in Nuremburg, Germany, from March 27-30, to highlight its Capa® caprolactone high performance polyol technology and the company’s expanded vegetable oil-based offerings that can be used to enhance coating formulations.

OrthoLite®, the global leader of sustainable, performance and comfort insoles and footwear materials solutions, and Novamont, the international leader in the development, production and eco-design of biodegradable and compostable bioplastics and biochemicals, announce an exclusive partnership in the creation of OrthoLite Cirql™, the world’s first circular foam material solution for footwear.

The proposal for a bankruptcy arrangement for the acquisition of all Bio-On assets presented by GRUPPO MAIP has been approved by the Court of Bologna, having received consent from the trustees and creditors.

Testing service provider Hohenstein (Bönnigheim, Germany) has worked with the project partners Trigema (Burladingen, Germany), Freudenberg Performance Materials APPAREL (Weinheim, Germany), DBL ITEX (Montabaur, Germany), and Paradies (Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany) to create a new standardized test method for detecting and classifying the environmental effects of textiles during washing.

Bluepha, a China-based cutting-edge biotech company, launched its first portfolio of marine degradable biopolymers, Bluepha™ PHA, on March 1st, 2023.

New research shows an 80 % reduction in global warming potential (GWP), when compared to incineration, by processing waste plastic via a unique advanced recycling solution known as HydroPRS™, in a paper published by experts at WMG, University of Warwick (Coventry, UK).

Beauty brands are seeking sustainable alternatives for conventional plastic packaging – but high-end brands have high-end demands.

Lignin is arguably the most abundant component of biomass that most people have never heard of. That may be about to change.

Eco-Products® (Boulder, CO, USA) recently announced that one of its Vanguard® clamshells has earned CMA-W approval from the Compost Manufacturing Alliance (CMA – Port Orchard, WA, USA), making it the first moulded fibre item made with no-added PFAS to be approved by CMA.

DSM Engineering Materials (Heerlen, the Netherlands) recently announces its partnership with sustainability-focused startup DiFOLD (Sofia, Bulgaria), developing foldable reusable products.

Neste (Espoo, Finland), the world’s leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel, and renewable feedstock solutions for various polymers and chemicals industry uses, is aiming to establish an algae pilot production facility in Spain to further strengthen the growth of its global raw material pool.

PA Consulting (London, United Kingdom) and PulPac, the Swedish R&D and IP company (Gothenburg) behind the proprietary production process of Dry Molded Fiber, have launched the Bottle Collective.

Sustainability is “the” topic. A significant contribution to sustainability goals may derive from the use of totally or partially biobased polyamides.

An artificial turf surface made of biobased materials, sustainable, environmentally friendly, suitable for play, is being built for the city of Ellwangen, Germany With a biobased and biodegradable synthetic turf system, the city of Ellwangen wants to reduce the discharge of microplastics into the environment and create a sustainable, future-proof alternative for new sports fields with synthetic turf.

PLAST 2023, five years since the last edition. New projects, new impetus, and new content at the technology showcase for the plastics and rubber industry

AMSTERDAM, 21 February 2023, 22:05 hrs CEST – Avantium N.V. (“Avantium”), a leading technology company in renewable chemistry, and Origin Materials, Inc. (“Origin” and “Origin Materials”), a leading sustainable materials company based in the USA, announced on Feb 21, 2023 a partnership to accelerate the mass production of FDCA and PEF for use in advanced chemicals and plastics.

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – With USD 6 million raised in its latest round of pre-series A funding, Loliware has raised a total of USD 15.4 million – making it the market’s best-funded seaweed materials tech company.

Teijin Limited announced end of January that it has received an ISCC PLUS sustainable-product certification from the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) system for biomass-derived bisphenol A (BPA) polycarbonate (PC) resin products produced in Japan.

Solvay (Brussels, Belgium), a leading global supplier of specialty materials, has announced that the production of its hydroquinone (HQ) and hydroquinone monomethylether (MeHQ) in Saint-Fons, France has been accredited to comply with the mass balance accounting regime of the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS system.

Neste (Espoo, Finland), Uponor (Vantaa, Finland), Wastewise (Nokia, Finland) and Borealis (Vienna, Austria) have successfully produced pipes made of cross-linked polyethylene (PEX) which was based on feedstock gained from chemically recycled post-industrial waste plastic from PEX pipe production, using an ISCC PLUS certified mass-balancing approach.

Yesterday, LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, Netherlands), a global leader in the chemical industry and KIRKBI (Billund, Denmark), the family-owned holding and investment company of the LEGO® brand, announce they have signed an agreement to make an investment in APK (Merseburg, Germany), which specializes in a unique solvent-based recycling technology for low density polyethylene (LDPE).

Stahl, a provider of coatings technologies headquartered in Waalwijk (the Netherlands), has agreed to acquire ICP Industrial Solutions Group (ISG – Itasca, IL, USA), a leader in high-performance packaging coatings.

Teknor Apex (Pawtucket, RI, USA) is excited to announce the new Monprene® S3 CP-15170 BLK, an eco-conscious thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) made with 35% sustainable content that includes UBQ™ and post-consumer recycled material.

A new hybrid catalyst converts carbon dioxide into ethylene in one pot.

Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil), the global leader in biobased polymer production, has joined the Renewable Carbon Initiative as part of its commitment to achieving carbon neutrality.

Dow (Midland, MI, United States) and LVMH Beauty, a division of LVMH (Paris, France), the world leader in luxury and home to 75 iconic brands, will collaborate to accelerate the use of sustainable packaging across LVMH’s perfume and cosmetic products.

Avantium (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), a leading technology company in renewable chemistry, and Henkel (Düsseldorf, Germany), a global leader of adhesives, sealants, and functional coatings, and leading manufacturer of well-known consumer brands, have signed an offtake agreement for five years, under which Avantium will supply Henkel with FDCA (furandicarboxylic acid) produced in Avantium’s FDCA Flagship Plant, currently under construction in Delfzijl, the Netherlands.