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Brita (Taunusstein, Germany), INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt, Germany) and BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany) have announced today that BRITA has selected a range of INEOS’ sustainable Terluran® ECO, Styrolution® PS ECO and NAS® ECO materials as materials of choice for its portfolio of water filter jugs.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability (Fraunhofer LBF – Darmstadt, Germany) and Ansmann AG (Assamstadt, Germany), a leading manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries, have developed organosheets with flax fibres in the "BioBattery" project. The sheets were incorporated into a battery housing for e-bikes for reinforcement.

Aiming to produce environmentally friendly alternatives to plastic food wrap and containers, a Rutgers scientist has developed a biodegradable, plant-based coating that can be sprayed on foods, guarding against pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms and transportation damage.

Avantium (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) leading technology company in renewable chemistry, announces that Carlsberg Group (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Avantium have agreed to take the next step in the commercialisation of PEF.

Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), a leading technology company in renewable chemistry, has formed the PEF Textile Community with the five reputable global companies Antex (Anglès, Spain), BekaertDeslee (Waregem, Belgium), Chamatex (Ardoix, France), Kvadrat (Ebeltoft, Denmark) and Salomon (Annecy, France).

Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Group (Tokyo, Japan) hereby announces that MCHG’s biobased engineering plastic, Durabio, has been adopted as an application for the front grill of the S-Cross manufactured by Suzuki Motor Corporation (Hamamatsu, Japan).

The Absolut Company (Stockholm, Sweden), part of Pernod Ricard (Paris, France), is working with Blue Ocean Closures (BOC), a start-up based in Sweden (Karlstad), to develop an innovative natural fibre-based closure cap for Absolut Vodka’s iconic bottle.

For the 5th time we will host the Bioplastics Business Breakfast during the K-show in Düsseldorf, Germany - if you would like to be a presenter, let us know.

Recently Zara released a limited-edition line of sustainable fashion made from captured carbon emissions.

Lenzing Group (Lenzing, Austria), a leading global producer of wood-based specialty fibres, has joined hands with UTEXBEL (Ronse, Belgium), a vertically integrated textile group and leader in Protective Wear and Workwear fabrics, to provide uniform for security personnel of the Belgian Federal Public Service for Justice (FPS Justice), using TENCEL™ branded fibres with REFIBRA™ technology and recycled polyester.

Successful trials of TIPA’s (Hod Hasharon, Israel) compostable packaging will see the company’s films act as a liner for global leader of tray sealer equipment company G.Mondini’s (Cologne, Italy) paper packaging solutions.

Tomorrow starts the world-renowned hybrid conference focusing on everything PLA related featuring representatives from all parts of the industry.

Shiseido (Tokyo, Japan) has unveiled a new beauty brand Ulé, focused on botanical, conscious beauty. The brand grows its plant ingredients at the Ulé Eco-Farm, near Paris, to ensure the purity of the ingredients and supply chains that are as short as possible.

The second edition of the Renewable Materials Conference (10–12 May 2022, Cologne, Germany) yesterday presented the Renewable Material of the Year 2022 Award. The winner is Twelve Benefit Corporation (USA) for their "Electrochemical CO2 Transformation to Chemicals and Materials"

Bluestone Lane (New York, NY, USA), Australian-inspired specialty coffee roaster, and café lifestyle brand, launches a new line of Nespresso® compatible pods, available in four signature roasts.

Following its development in 2021 of the world’s first bioplastic cage for rolling bearings, NSK (Tokyo, Japan) can now reveal its initial product line-up. The new heat-resistant cage will be available on its 608, 6201 and 6202 series of deep groove ball bearings, which are ideal for fan motors in air conditioners.

The 35th CHINAPLAS has been postponed in view of the latest COVID development and further tightening of pandemic control measures in Shanghai and other provinces of China, and to protect the health and safety of all show participants as well as to ensure the best participation results for our exhibitors.

One way to overcome the chemical industry's dependence on fossil fuels is to replace oil and gas with renewable carbon within the existing structures of the chemical industry. But it applies also to innovation, the development of new processes, building blocks and materials.

With consumers and regulators focusing more than ever on the materials we use and how they are disposed of, innovators are revolutionising food packaging, plastic production, and approaches to recycling and waste. The Rethinking Materials Summit reveals 26 start-ups set to shake up the supply chain when they take to the summit stage in London on May 4-5.

In October 2016, students from the Dutch universities TU/e (Eindhoven), TU Delft, Avans (Breda, 's-Hertogenbosch, and Tilburg), and the Eindhoven’s vocational colleges built a footbridge on the TU/e campus. The unique thing about this bridge was not that it was built on the TU/e campus, but that it was made from a biocomposite material that included flax, and it was the world’s first biocomposite bridge.

Ahead of Earth Day, Dell Technologies is launching new products and sustainable materials to help address the growing issues of waste and resource constraints.

EconCore (Leuven, Belgium), world leader in technologies for economic honeycomb sandwich production, has collaborated with partner Flaxco® (Roeselare, Belgium), to develop and manufacture an innovative new thermoplastic honeycomb sandwich panel – pioneering the use flax fibres in such an application.

After four years of scientific development and testing, consumers will be able to experience their favourite moisturizers packaged in an innovative jar made of industrially compostable material that does not harm the environment and is manufactured sustainably.

SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) today announced a collaboration with Mattel (El Segundo, CA, USA) to incorporate certified renewable polymers from SABIC’s TRUCIRCLE™ program across Mattel’s products offering. The first Mattel toy products to enter the market in 2022 using certified renewable SABIC® PP (polypropylene) polymers will be from MEGA and Matchbox, with more to follow.

good natured Products (Vancouver, Canada), announced on March 30 that ForageGirl, a brand of Norcliff Farms and North America's largest producer of fiddleheads, will be shipping this year's harvest in new custom-designed, BPI-certified compostable packaging supplied by good natured®.

Sicomin Epoxy Systems (Châteauneuf-les-Martigues, France), the leading formulator of high-performance epoxy resin systems and the market leading GreenPoxy bio-resin range, announces its new collaboration with sports equipment giant Decathlon (Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France).

The topic of sustainability is increasingly in the foreground at Germany's largest drugstore group dm: Since October last year, the clothes hangers for dm's ALANA and PUSBLU children's textiles have been made of the grass fibre-based bioplastic AgriPlast from the company Biowert Industrie GmbH in Odenwald, Germany.

Your choice in stationery can help reduce CO₂.

Avantium N.V. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), a leading technology company in renewable chemistry, announces that world luxury goods leader LVMH Group (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton – Paris, France) and Avantium have agreed to further explore the potential of Avantium’s 100 % plant-based, recyclable polymer PEF (polyethylene furanoate), as a sustainable packaging solution for LVMH beauty brands. To this end, LVMH Beauty will be the first luxury cosmetic company to join the PEFerence consortium, further enabling the commercial introduction of PEF to the Cosmetics market.

St1’s HelmiSimpukka (Helsinki, Finland), in collaboration with Woodly (Helsinki, Finland) and Amerplast (Tampere, Finland), launches the Woodly heat-sealed take away bag.