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UPM Biochemicals (Helsinki, Finland)announced today that it has selected Brenntag SE (Essen, Germany) as sole distributor of its sustainable bio-monoethylene glycol (BioMEG) UPM BioPura™ in Europe.

TIPA (Hod Hasharon, Israel), a global leader in compostable packaging solutions for food and fashion, and Charter Next Generation (CNG – Chicago, IL, USA), a leading US specialty film manufacturer, recently announced a partnership to drive local US production and adoption of compostable packaging.

The increased adoption and production of bioplastics can create jobs across various sectors. In the EU, approximately 15,000 jobs were created this year because of the bioplastics industry. From research and development to manufacturing and production, there are attractive careers in bioplastics that are interesting to pursue.

Neste (Espoo, Finland) has entered a cooperation with Suntory (Osaka, Japan), ENEOS (Tokyo, Japan), and Mitsubishi Corporation (Tokyo, Japan) to enable the production of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) resin made with renewable Neste RE™ on a commercial scale.

Origin Materials (West Sacramento, CA, USA), and Sustainea Bioglycols, a joint venture between Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil) and Sojitz (Tokyo, Japan), recently announced a strategic partnership centered on advanced biobased materials produced using Origin’s technology platform and Sustainea’s biobased glycol products and market expertise.

From an associated institute of the University of Applied Sciences to a pioneer of the circular economy for a sustainable plastics industry.

Terphane signed a capacity reservation agreement to purchase bio-based PEF polymer from Origin Materials for use in industrial and film packaging applications

The Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) published new insights into a hotly debated topic and urges for careful and evidence-based debates.

TotalEnergies Corbion (Gorinchem, the Netherlands) announced that it will not pursue a new PLA bioplastics plant in Grandpuits, France.

Jindan will utilize Sulzer’s licensed PLA technology at its new manufacturing plant to produce up to 75’000 tonnes of PLA per year, mainly to be used for food packaging, molded goods and fibers production.

Bluepha, the leading synthetic biology company in China (Beijing), and TotalEnergies Corbion (Gorinchem, the Netherlands), a global leader in PLA technology, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to accelerate the market adoption of PLA/PHA-based solutions in China.

Xiamen Changsu Industrial (Xiamen, China) and TotalEnergies Corbion(Gorinchem, the Netherlands) have announced a strategic cooperation agreement that will further advance the polylactic acid (PLA) industry.

The Renewable Materials Conference in Siegburg/Cologne (Germany) will start tomorrow and might turn out to be the must-go event of 2023.

INCA Renewable Technologies, (Kelowna, BC, Canada) manufacturer of natural fibre composites, today announced at the international JEC Composites Show Start-up Booster Competition that the company has secured a USD 40 million Funding Commitment as part of a Series B round from a private New York Family Office.

OrthoLite®, the global leader of sustainable, performance and comfort insoles and footwear materials solutions, and Novamont, the international leader in the development, production and eco-design of biodegradable and compostable bioplastics and biochemicals, announce an exclusive partnership in the creation of OrthoLite Cirql™, the world’s first circular foam material solution for footwear.

The proposal for a bankruptcy arrangement for the acquisition of all Bio-On assets presented by GRUPPO MAIP has been approved by the Court of Bologna, having received consent from the trustees and creditors.

PLAST 2023, five years since the last edition. New projects, new impetus, and new content at the technology showcase for the plastics and rubber industry

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – With USD 6 million raised in its latest round of pre-series A funding, Loliware has raised a total of USD 15.4 million – making it the market’s best-funded seaweed materials tech company.

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.