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To support its customers’ strong growth, in particular in the sports and consumer goods markets, Arkema will increase its global manufacturing capacity for Pebax® elastomers by approximately 25% through an investment at its Serquigny plant in France.

New agreement with Trillium Renewable Chemicals will enable Solvay's development of sustainable, bio-carbon fiber for use in various applications.

Origin Materials, Inc., the world’s leading carbon negative materials company with a mission to enable the world’s transition to sustainable materials, and global trading and investment company Mitsui & Co., Ltd. today announced a strategic partnership to industrialize advanced carbon negative materials.

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company announced on 5 January the release of a demonstration tire with 70% sustainable-material content, including industry-leading innovations.

Covestro has signed its first commercial contract for supplying its ISCC Plus certified polyurethane raw material TDI from mass-balanced feedstock to Sinomax, a global manufacturer and distributor of polyurethane-based comfort products, as it continues to help downstream industries reduce their carbon footprint with a broader portfolio of more sustainable raw materials.

For over twenty years, Teijin Aramid has been recycling Twaron fibres at its own recycling facilities. In its quest to achieve zero emissions, Teijin Aramid has joined forces with Clariter and is pioneering an advanced recycling solution for Endumax, an Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMW-PE).

A team of scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, US, has developed a ‘smart’ food packaging material that is biodegradable, sustainable and kills microbes that are harmful to humans. It could also extend the shelf-life of fresh fruit by two to three days.

The ALPLA Group, the global packaging solutions and recycling specialist, and Glatfelter Corporation, a leading global supplier of engineered materials, have partnered with Blue Ocean Closures (BOC), a start-up based in the region of Värmland in Sweden, to develop innovative natural fibre-based closures and other moulded packaging products using dry forming technology.

Green-tech start-up Melodea, Ltd. is the new kid on the sustainable packaging block. The company has developed MelOx, a high-performance, plant-sourced barrier coating that protects packaged products from oxygen and oil and grease transmission; and Melodea VBcoat, that protects packaged goods from water vapor and oil and grease transmission.

Today, DSM Engineering Materials announces that Ford Motor Company, HellermannTyton, and DSM earned an Innovation Award from the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) for the use of Akulon® RePurposed recycled ocean plastic in the Ford Bronco Sport. This application was also recognized by Ford as the first of many potential uses for recycled ocean plastics in a major vehicle platform.

The Cologne-based company BIO-FED, a branch of AKRO-PLASTIC GmbH, has expanded its portfolio with ISCC PLUS and REDcert² sustainable certified M·VERA® compounds made from biomass-balanced polypropylene (PP). The sources of raw materials for the PP are vegetable oil and fat waste, which is produced in various processes, e.g. in the food industry.

Suntory Group announced 3 Dec. that, as a crucial step toward its aim to use 100% sustainable PET bottles globally by 2030 and eliminate all petroleum-based virgin plastic from its global PET supply, the company has successfully created a prototype PET bottle made from 100% plant-based materials.

Arkema has introduced a new PA11 material that the company says has been developed to replace metal and traditional polymers in medical device applications. The renewably-sourced, recyclable Rilsan MED polyamide 11 is lightweight and biocompatible and offers the resistance to aggressive chemical agents and repeated sterilisation cycles required of medical polymers.

Stora Enso is extending its packaging offering with a new portfolio of bio-based foams from wood. The products are fully recyclable and can be used for protective and thermal packaging.

Sabic, a global leader in the chemical industry, and Malaysia-based plastic recycling company HHI, have announced a pioneering new collaboration to create the first certified circular polymers produced through the advanced recycling of recovered mixed and used ocean-bound plastic.

ABB Robotics has signed a framework agreement to collaborate with California-based Zume, a global provider of innovative, compostable packaging. ABB will supply robotic cells that will enable Zume’s production of sustainable packaging on a global scale, helping to reduce reliance on single-use plastics.

A new initiative called Positive Plastics aims to convey a more accepting outlook on plastics to designers, engineers, and product managers. To achieve this, last month they launched their first “Positive Plastics Kit”, an invaluable tool for materials understanding and communication between non-technical and technical team members.

Israeli companies UBQ Materials,a developer of the most climate-positive thermoplastic material on the market and Polyram Group, a leading international supplier of high performance thermoplastic compounds, have announced a new partnership.

Carbon negative materials company Origin Materials, Inc. and Kolon Industries, Inc., a South Korean chemicals and materials producer have announced a strategic partnership to industrialize novel polymers and drop-in solutions for select applications, with an initial focus on automotive applications.

Swiss sports brand On today announced a move away from petroleum-based resources by creating a new foam material called CleanCloud™, made using carbon emissions as a raw material. On is the first company in the footwear industry to explore carbon emissions as a primary raw material for a shoe bottom unit, specifically EVA (ethylene vinyl acetate) foam, that could also be used in other shoe parts and products in the future.

Swedish apparel brand Farmerrain is using BIOVYN™ - the world’s first commercially available bio-attributed PVC produced by INOVYN - to accelerate its growth plans for sustainable clothing, which includes fashion-led rainwear and high-performance workwear.

Sabic has launched a new portfolio of bio-based ULTEM™ resins that offer sustainability benefits while delivering exactly the same high performance and processability as incumbent ULTEM materials.

At Padua-based Sirmax Group’s first appearance at Ecomondo, the company is exhibiting its highly technological and innovative sustainable solutions.

Arkema has announced the construction of a polyamide 11 powders plant on its Changshu platform in China, scheduled to come on stream in the first quarter of 2023.

Specialty chemicals company LANXESS and energy company bp are entering into a strategic partnership for the use of sustainable raw materials in high-tech plastics production.

Bioplastics producer Green Dot Bioplastics and tier 1 automotive supplier Mayco International have partnered on the development of a sustainable solution for the trim and scrap fibres produced during Mayco’s manufacture of automotive components.

As part of its growth strategy for its biopolymers business, BASF is partnering with WPO Polymers to further advance the fast developing Spanish and Portuguese bioplastics markets. To that end, BASF has appointed WPO Polymers as the distributor of its ecovio product range in Spain and Portugal.

Paccor, a leading global player in the packaging industry, is ready to produce 100% biobased polypropylene (Bio-PP) products for its customer Orkla, a leading supplier of branded consumer goods to the grocery, out- of home, specialized retail, pharmacy, and bakery sectors in the Nordics

As part of a new effort to advance the use of recycled ocean plastic, SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, and Microsoft Corporation have collaborated to create Microsoft’s first consumer electronic product – The Microsoft Ocean Plastic Mouse – with an exterior shell containing 20% recycled ocean plastic.

Jabil Packaging Solutions (JPS), a division of manufacturing solutions provider Jabil Inc. today has announced a significant advancement in coffee pod sustainability with the launch of their home-compostable coffee capsule for single serve espresso brewers.