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Conagra Brands, a leading branded food manufacturer, has used plant-based fiber packaging bowls for the past 3 years. The company has now introduced to its portfolio new Hungry-Man Double Meat Bowls and P.F. Chang's Ramen single-serve meals.

Newlight Technologies, Inc., a California biotechnology company that manufactures PHB, a type of PHA, has announced the opening of a new commercial-scale AirCarbon production facility in Southern California, called Eagle 3.

Borealis’s new portfolio of circular products, called Bornewables, is produced with renewable feedstock derived entirely from waste and residue streams. The polyolefins offer the same material performance as virgin polyolefins, yet with a reduced carbon footprint.

Stora Enso is making an investment in dispersion barrier technology at its Forshaga site in Sweden, as a step forward in its innovation agenda.

International Polymer Compounding Group Hexpol TPE have added more grades to their Dryflex Green family of Biobased TPE Compounds. The series now includes grades based on Styrenic Block Copolymer (TPS) and Thermoplastic Polyolefin (TPO) technologies, with amounts of renewable content to over 90% (ASTM D 6866-12) and hardness from 15 Shore A to 60 Shore D.

Emery Oleochemicals, a natural–based specialty chemicals manufacturer, has announced the release of its new EMEROX Ester Plasticizer product line.

Unilever, a leading manufacturer of cleaning and laundry products, today announces it will replace 100% of the carbon derived from fossil fuels in its cleaning and laundry product formulations with renewable or recycled carbon. This move is set to transform the sustainability of global cleaning and laundry brands including OMO (Persil), Sunlight, Cif, and Domestos.

Stora Enso will build a pilot facility for producing Cellufoam™ by Stora Enso, a lightweight, fiber-based foam material for protective packaging and cushioning. Bio-based foams are renewable and recyclable and can be used in packaging, for example, to replace oil-based polymer foams which are widely used today. The pilot plant will be located at Stora Enso’s Fors Mill in Sweden.

Toray Industries, Inc. has developed a new, more sustainable nylon that represents a major step forward in the company's sustainability vision.

A packaging deal with an ethical skincare manufacturer signals the start of an exciting new partnership for Teysha Technologies.

Mondi, a leading global packaging and paper manufacturer, is partnering with One Young World for a second consecutive year as a sponsor of Lead2030.

The BBI project CHAMPION, which started in June 2020, will develop a large number of new, safe biobased materials for circular applications. This new library of biobased materials will bring the circular ambitions of the European Union a step closer.

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO), has started work to establish a globally recognized mass balance standard for the industry. The new standard will help to drive real change, supporting the development of recycled and renewable raw materials, and the production processes needed.

On March 6th, 2020, BioPad became yet another of Cortec's corrosion solutions to become a USDA Certified Biobased Product. BioPad is now able to display a unique USDA label that highlights its percentage of biobased content.

Clariant has announced some good news for the development of sustainable compostable products. The company's biobased processing & dispersing additives for biopolymers used in plastics– Licocare® RBW Vita range, Licolub® FA 1 and Licowax® C – have earned the “OK compost INDUSTRIAL” certificate.

Bio-Fed has announced the introduction of what it claims is a more further developed version of its home compostable and soil degradable injection moulding grade of M-Vera GP 1012.

PolyOne announced it is adding production of both post-industrial recycled nylon grades and bio-based thermoplastic elastomers in Europe. This strengthened sustainability portfolio will support circular economy goals and provide additional eco-conscious material options for EU customers.

Covestro is introducing a new polycarbonate film with more than 50 percent of its carbon content sourced from plant-based biomass. Makrofol EC is the first partially bio-based film in the company’s product portfolio.

Global engineering and consultancy firm Worley has been awarded a FEED (front-end engineering design) to develop Avantium’s flagship plant that will support the transition to a bio-based economy for plastics. The plant will produce 100% plant-based FDCA – a key building block for many chemicals and plastics.

Italy-based Ticinoplast, a specialised producer of polyethylene film for packaging, has developed a new range of films as a sustainable, compostable alternative to conventional packaging films.

According to the European Strategy for Plastics, launched in 2018, all plastic packaging placed on the EU market must be either reusable or easily recyclable by the year 2030. Now, Finnish start-up Woodly Ltd has developed and commercialised a new material that is already able to satisfy this requirement in full.

Neste and Covestro are starting a strategic cooperation in Europe to promote the use of sustainable raw materials in plastics production. Covestro will be supplied with material from renewable sources to replace a significant portion of the fossil raw materials used to date in the manufacture of polycarbonates.

A new project launched by Spanish plastics technology centre AIMPLAS, in collaboration with OLIPE, or Olivarera Los Pedroches in full, a cooperative of olive oil producers in Andalusia, is looking at the feasibility of using olive stones to make a new bioplastic.

Clariant’s Additives business and Floreon-Transforming Packaging Limited announce an exciting new collaboration to further extend the performance properties and market potential of biopolymers, whilst preserving their environmental benefits.

Royal DSM, a global science-based company in Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Living, SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, and UPM Biofuels, a leading producer of sustainable raw materials, today announced a partnership that will help to reduce the environmental footprint of Dyneema, the world’s strongest fiber.

Founded by Starbucks and McDonalds, the NextGen Consortium is a multi-year, global consortium that aims to address the global issue of single-use food packaging waste by advancing the design, commercialization, and recovery of food packaging alternatives.

Biobased chemical company Advanced Biochemical (Thailand) Co., Ltd. has announced a capacity increase at its plant in Map Ta Phut, Thailand.

UK-based chemical industry consultancy Tecnon OrbiChem and the nova-Institute release their latest “Commercialisation updates on bio-based building blocks”.

Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF developed a novel, bio-based facade insulating material during a two-year project.

Apparently, microbes like MacDonald’s as well. Researchers at U of T Scarborough have for the first time turned waste cooking oil from a local MacDonald’s deep fryer into a high-resolution, biodegradable resin for 3D printing.