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Dow (Midland, MI, USA) has announced the launch of ENGAGE™ REN, an innovative and more sustainable brand extension to the ENGAGE™ range of high-performing polyolefin elastomers (POEs).

BBI-JU invests in WASTE2FUNC.

Danimer Scientific (Bainbridge, GA, USA) and Kemira (Helsinki, Finland) recently announced a multi-year license and supply agreement, exclusive in Kemira’s core markets, to commercialize biobased barrier coatings for paper and board products.

Avantium (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), a leading technology company in renewable chemistry, announces that the European PET Bottle Platform (EPBP) has awarded an interim endorsement to Avantium, allowing recycling of multilayer PET/PEF packaging in the European bottle recycling market.

CJ BIO, a division of South Korea (Seoul) based CJ CheilJedang, announced that it has begun manufacturing polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) at a newly commissioned facility located in Pasuruan, Indonesia.

Lummus Technology (Houston, TX, USA), a global provider of process technologies and value-driven energy solutions, announced a partnership with Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil), the largest biopolymer producer in the world, to license green ethylene technology.

As part of a multiyear strategic partnership with Eastman (Kingsport, TN, United States), Maip Group (Torino, Italy) announces innovative compounds for new resins in the automotive market.

Trinseo (Berwyn, PA, USA) recently announced the launch of a more sustainable version of its established MAGNUM™ ABS resins for automotive applications.

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.

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.

Tianan Biologic’s (Ningbo, China) Enmat Y1000P PHBV has been certified OK Biodegradable Marine by TÜV Austria. Coming two months after the OK Compost Home certification, by TÜV Austria as well, this welcome news makes Y1000P PHBV a truly sustainable and biodegradable material solution.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers are part of a new USD 6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop bioplastics for use in agriculture over the next four years.

UBC Okanagan (Kelowna, Canada) researchers have adapted a technique – originally designed to embalm human remains – to strengthen the properties of biocomposites and make them stronger.

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) and Toyota Tsusho Corporation (Nagoya, Japan) have begun a joint-consideration to manufacture and sale ethylene, propylene, and their derivatives using bioethanol as a raw material, with an aim to commence operation in 2025.

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).

Yield10 Bioscience (Woburn, Massachusetts, USA), an agricultural bioscience company, recently announced their advances in the development of Camelina as a platform for the production of PHA bioplastic directly in the seed.

The Department of Energy has granted USD 2 million over three years to Braskem America, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Princeton University to develop plastic that can be recycled perpetually, reducing waste and pollution from single-use plastics.

John Crane's polymer melt filtration system will help to produce NatureWorks' Ingeo™ PLA biopolymer, a process that transforms greenhouse gases and plant sugars into bioplastic.

Market report “Mimicking Nature – The PHA Industry Landscape.Latest trends and 28 producer profiles” published.

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.

Mitsui Chemicals (Tokyo, Japan) recently announced that its subsidiary Prime Polymer (Tokyo, Japan) has become the first company in Japan to commercially produce and ship biomass polypropylene (PP).

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.

Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (MCHC, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) announced earlier this week that Diamond Edge Ventures, Inc. (DEV, a wholly-owned subsidiary of MCHC”) has invested in Lingrove, Inc. (San Francisco, California, USA).