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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.

Green, Smart, Advance are the three keywords for most of the industries nowadays, including but not limited to plastics and rubber industries. Green is the commitment for circular economy and sustainability. At CHINAPLAS 2023, April 17-20, 2023 visitors will for sure immerse in these 3 hot technologies under one roof.

Following the construction of its first PLA (poly-lactic acid) plant in China in 2021, Futerro's ambition is to set up a new fully integrated biorefinery in the industrial and port area of Port-Jérôme, in the Caux Seine agglomeration (commune of Saint-Jean-de-Folleville), located on the Seine axis between Rouen and Le Havre.

European Bioplastics presented at the 17th EUBP Conference (6+7 Dec. 2022, Berlin, Germany) a positive outlook for the global bioplastics industry. After a stagnation of the overall plastics production in 2020, mainly due to challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, there is now a new momentum for global bioplastics production.

Today, digital product passports and mass balance bookkeeping software provider Circularise (The Hague, the Netherlands) announces that it secured €11 million in funding as part of its Series A round that will be used to advance its mission to bring a circular economy to industrial supply chains.

All you want to know about advanced recycling technologies and renewable chemicals, building-blocks, monomers, and polymers based on recycling: 14–15 November 2022, Cologne, Germany (hybrid event)

Maybe now more than ever, bioplastics will play an important role at the K’2022 with Circular Economy and Climate Protection being front and centre of the world's biggest trade show on plastics and rubber.

The K’2022 is right around the corner and everyone has places to be and people to meet.

Bioplastics can be a broad and at times confusing term as it describes both what they are (biobased) and what they do (biodegrade), while not necessarily doing/being both.

bioplastics MAGAZINE is presenting the brand-new Media-Kit for 2023.

The K’2019 was a massive undertaking with about a quarter million visitors, over 3,000 exhibitors spread across 19 halls and 177,000 m².

Neste, Idemitsu Kosan, CHIMEI and Mitsubishi Corporation have agreed to build a renewable plastics supply chain utilizing bio-based hydrocarbons (Neste RE™) for the production of styrene monomer (i.e. bio-SM), and its mass balanced renewable plastics derivatives including acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (i.e. bio-ABS*). The bio-SM production in Japan and the renewable plastics production in Taiwan will mark the first of such production in each country, and they are planned to take place in the first half of 2023.

The Board of BioBag International AS (Askim, Norway) has appointed Patrik Fogelström as new CEO of the BioBag Group and Managing Director of the parent company BioBag International AS, which have been acquired in 2021 by the Novamont Group (Novara, Italy), a world leader in the development and production of biochemicals and compostable bioplastics.

The Kunststoff-Institut Lüdenscheid (Germany) is planning a new joint project for autumn 2022 that will examine application possibilities of biopolymers.

Asahi Kasei, a multinational Japanese chemical company headquartered in Tokyo, joined European Bioplastics (EUBP) in June 2022.

Am Montag, 20.06.2022 hat die ARD eine Dokumentation über den Umgang mit Kunststoffabfällen ausgestrahlt. „Aus dem Vorhandensein von Mängeln und der Existenz schwarzer Schafe aber den Schluss zu ziehen, man müsse generell auf Kunststoffe verzichten ist falsch,“ kommentierte kunststoffland NRW Geschäftsführer Ron Brinitzer, „hier wird das Kind mit dem Bade ausgeschüttet!“

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.

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

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"

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.

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.

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.

A group of leading mobility and impact venture capital funds, including BMW i Ventures as lead in-vestor, has completed a CHF 32.4 million (USD 35 million) investment in sustainable lightweighting specialists Bcomp, as the Swiss scale-up closed its Series B financing round this month.

An extensive new independent report – “ReShaping Plastics: Pathways to a Circular, Climate Neutral Plastics System in Europe” – calls for faster systemic change towards circularity and net zero carbon emissions.

The commitment to Matrìca – the joint venture set up in 2011 between Versalis (San Donato Milanese, Italy) and Novamont (Novara, Italy) at Porto Torres (Italy) specializing in manufacturing bioproducts from renewable sources – has been reconfirmed.

Today it was announced that the CHINAPLAS, one of the world's leading plastics and rubber trade fairs and widely recognized by the industry as the most influential exhibitions next to the K fair, will be postponed.

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

Biopolymer innovator Teysha Technologies have joined the National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB) to research, test and develop bioplastics for the agricultural industry in the UK.