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A consortium of seven companies across five countries has jointly established a supply chain for more sustainable polyester fibre.

Infinium (Sacramento, CA, USA) and Borealis (Vienna, Austria) have entered into an agreement to enable the production of low-carbon-footprint plastics generated from waste carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere.

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, LUT University, and companies have opened a pilot plant in Espoo, Finland, to process captured carbon dioxide into compounds that can replace fossil raw materials in plastic products and chemicals.

GS Caltex plans to partner with Jeollanam-do and Yeosu City (all from South Korea) to activate green transformation for carbon dioxide-infused polyols from CCU (Carbon Capture and Utilization).

Prized by aerospace manufacturers for their strength, stiffness and durability, carbon fibre composites are usually produced from fossil fuels.

Changhua Chemical (Zhangjiagang City, China) is beginning the construction of China’s first manufacturing site for sustainable polyols made from renewable carbon.

440 participants discussed the defossilisation of the chemical and materials industry through biomass, CO2 and recycling. The audience voted for the "Renewable Material of the Year 2024": Acetic acid from CO2 by Danish start-up Again wins 1st price.

AIMPLAS (Valencia, Spain) promotes the development of new sustainable and efficient materials for the construction industry obtained from carbon dioxide (CO2) generated by industries in the Valencian Community and waste produced by the citrus sector.

We are excited to welcome Chemie-Cluster Bayern (Munich, Germany) as a new partner of the Renewable Carbon Initiative!

Three biobased innovations from Germany and from Sweden, two CCU innovations from Denmark and Hungary and one advanced plastic recycling technology from Canada are nominated for the “Renewable Material of the Year 2024” innovation award.

The CCU community in Europe welcomes the inclusion of Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) as a net zero technology and as an eligible strategic technology under the recently agreed upon Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA).

Sumitomo Chemical (Tokyo, Japan) has completed the construction of a pilot facility to establish a highly efficient process for producing methanol from CO2 at its Ehime Works, located in Niihama City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan, and has commenced operations at the facility.

Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil) and the University of São Paulo (USP) have announced a partnership to develop lines of research for converting CO2 into other chemical products.

Avantium (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), a leading technology provider in renewable chemistry, announces that it has agreed to partner with SCGC (Bangkok, Thailand), a leading integrated chemical player in Asia and an innovator of chemical innovations and solutions.

Monument Chemical (Indianapolis, IN, USA) is the first US company to license Econic’s (Macclesfield, UK) process for manufacturing polycarbonate ether (PCE) polyols made from CO2 as a sustainable source of renewable carbon.

Avantium (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), a leading technology provider in renewable chemistry, announces that it has been awarded a €1.5 million grant by the EU Horizon Europe programme for its participation in the research and development programme HICCUPS.

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

In mid-April, Alex Thielen, editor of bioplastics MAGAZINE sat down with Mateusz (Mat) Wielopolski and John Sewell who host the podcast Plastic. Climate. Future. to talk about bioplastics MAGAZINE, the concept of renewable carbon and bioplastics overall.

Being the most abundant and persistent greenhouse gas emitted, carbon dioxide (CO2) is the key driver of climate change.

A new hybrid catalyst converts carbon dioxide into ethylene in one pot.

New technology developed at the University of Waterloo could make a significant difference in the fight against climate change by affordably converting harmful carbon dioxide (CO2) into fuels and other valuable chemicals on an industrial scale.

The world’s first commercial scale CO2-to-methanol plant has started production in Anyang, Henan Province, China.

Recently, a Korea-Spain joint research team recreated bioplastic from wasted by-products from gas fermentation from steel mills.

Breakthrough discovery to replace the barrel with synthetic biology, addressing one of the largest carbon emitters in the chemical industry

With chemical production lending to more than 15 % of global industrial greenhouse gas emissions [1], start-up RenewCO2 (Cranford, NJ, USA) announced its spin-out from Rutgers University (Piscataway, NJ, USA), securing an exclusive licensing to scale its novel catalyst technology to convert carbon from hard-to-abate sectors and transform it into a feedstock for carbon-negative, plastic monomers at a fraction of the cost of plastics derived from fossil sources.

A team of Texas A&M AgriLife Research (College Station, TX, USA) scientists has developed a system that uses carbon dioxide, CO2, to produce biodegradable plastics, or bioplastics, that could replace the nondegradable plastics used today.

Swiss sports brand On (Zurich)presents the first shoe made from carbon emissions, called Cloudprime.

Materials manufacturer Covestro (Leverkusen, Germany) and SOL Kohlensäure (Burgbrohl, Germany) have concluded a framework agreement for a supply partnership for biogenic carbon dioxide (CO2).

Newlight Technologies (Huntington Beach, CA, USA) and CNX Resources Corporation (Canonsburg, PA, USA) recently announced that the companies have entered into a 15-year agreement to capture and utilize methane emissions for the production of Aircarbon®, a naturally-occurring molecule also known as PHB that replaces conventional plastic but is carbon-negative and biologically degrades in natural environments.

One of the major environmental issues facing the planet today is the rising levels of plastic consumption and waste. According to a recent OECD study, the world produced 460 million tonnes of plastics in 2019 and consumption will continue to rise despite an expected increase in recycling technologies deployment.