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Sabic, a global leader in the chemical industry, has introduced LNP Elcrin EXL7414B copolymer, the company’s first bio-attributed polycarbonate copolymer to help advance the consumer electronics industry’s net-zero carbon emissions goals.

Researchers from the University of Birmingham, U.K., and Duke University, U.S., have created a new family of polymers from sustainable sources that retain all of the same qualities as common plastics, but are also degradable and mechanically recyclable.

Yoloha is a company that sets out to make things better. In their pursuit of quality yoga mats made from high levels of renewable materials, they chose to work with HEXPOL TPE.

To support its customers’ strong growth, in particular in the sports and consumer goods markets, Arkema will increase its global manufacturing capacity for Pebax® elastomers by approximately 25% through an investment at its Serquigny plant in France.

VistaTek LLC, a leading custom injection molder based in Stillwater, Minn., has developed a plant-based garden pot that is one of the first plantable and compostable pots for the garden market, thus offering major sustainability benefits.

Origin Materials, Inc., the world’s leading carbon negative materials company with a mission to enable the world’s transition to sustainable materials, and global trading and investment company Mitsui & Co., Ltd. today announced a strategic partnership to industrialize advanced carbon negative materials.

Leading Canadian biotechnology company Genecis Bioindustries and innovative Dutch based Helian Polymers announce their collaboration creating PHA based formulations.

The ALPLA Group, the global packaging solutions and recycling specialist, and Glatfelter Corporation, a leading global supplier of engineered materials, have partnered with Blue Ocean Closures (BOC), a start-up based in the region of Värmland in Sweden, to develop innovative natural fibre-based closures and other moulded packaging products using dry forming technology.

Last week the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) published a report assessing the sustainability of agricultural plastic products[1] recommending the replacement of non-biodegradable, conventional polymers with biodegradable, bio-based polymers.

Green-tech start-up Melodea, Ltd. is the new kid on the sustainable packaging block. The company has developed MelOx, a high-performance, plant-sourced barrier coating that protects packaged products from oxygen and oil and grease transmission; and Melodea VBcoat, that protects packaged goods from water vapor and oil and grease transmission.

Avantium N.V., a leading technology company in renewable chemistry, announces that it has taken a positive Final Investment Decision (FID) on the construction of its FDCA Flagship Plant.

The Cologne-based company BIO-FED, a branch of AKRO-PLASTIC GmbH, has expanded its portfolio with ISCC PLUS and REDcert² sustainable certified M·VERA® compounds made from biomass-balanced polypropylene (PP). The sources of raw materials for the PP are vegetable oil and fat waste, which is produced in various processes, e.g. in the food industry.

Suntory Group announced 3 Dec. that, as a crucial step toward its aim to use 100% sustainable PET bottles globally by 2030 and eliminate all petroleum-based virgin plastic from its global PET supply, the company has successfully created a prototype PET bottle made from 100% plant-based materials.

Arkema has introduced a new PA11 material that the company says has been developed to replace metal and traditional polymers in medical device applications. The renewably-sourced, recyclable Rilsan MED polyamide 11 is lightweight and biocompatible and offers the resistance to aggressive chemical agents and repeated sterilisation cycles required of medical polymers.

This year marked the fifteenth anniversary of the Global Bioplastics Award, the prestigious annual honour recognising the achievements in the bioplastics over the past year.

Berry Global Group, Inc. has announced its most ambitious sustainable packaging goal to date: 30% circular plastics use across its fast-moving consumer goods packaging by 2030. Circular plastics include recycled and renewable resins like bioplastics.

Israeli companies UBQ Materials,a developer of the most climate-positive thermoplastic material on the market and Polyram Group, a leading international supplier of high performance thermoplastic compounds, have announced a new partnership.

Carbon negative materials company Origin Materials, Inc. and Kolon Industries, Inc., a South Korean chemicals and materials producer have announced a strategic partnership to industrialize novel polymers and drop-in solutions for select applications, with an initial focus on automotive applications.

The European Commission's European Innovation Council has selected 65 innovative start-ups and SMEs in 16 different countries to receive €363 million of funding for breakthrough innovations.

Eco-Products has announced that it has earned the coveted GreenScreen Certifiedin Silver designation for its novel line of compostable plates and containers made from sugarcane.

The Coca‑Cola Company has unveiled its first-ever beverage bottle made from 100% plant-based plastic, excluding the cap and label, that has been made using technologies that are ready for commercial scale.

Sabic has launched a new portfolio of bio-based ULTEM™ resins that offer sustainability benefits while delivering exactly the same high performance and processability as incumbent ULTEM materials.

Cortec Corporation has introduced a new organics recycling program at the Cortec global headquarters near Saint Paul, Minnesota, according to a statement released by the company today.

At Padua-based Sirmax Group’s first appearance at Ecomondo, the company is exhibiting its highly technological and innovative sustainable solutions.

LATI Industria Termoplastici of Vedano Olona, Italy, a leading compounder specialised in self-extinguishing and high performance thermoplastic compounds, has partnered with The Hemp Plastic Company, of Boulder, Colorado, USA, on the distribution of The Hemp Plastic Company’s line of ecological hemp blended plastics in Europe.

Emballator, a leading producer of packaging solutions, and Borealis, a leading provider of innovative polyolefins solutions, are expanding their portfolio in close partnership.

Cargill introduces the first product from its full spectrum plastics/polyols production process.

Arkema has announced the construction of a polyamide 11 powders plant on its Changshu platform in China, scheduled to come on stream in the first quarter of 2023.

Specialty chemicals company LANXESS and energy company bp are entering into a strategic partnership for the use of sustainable raw materials in high-tech plastics production.

n the manufacture of plastics, LANXESS is increasingly turning to “circular” and bio-based raw materials. The specialty chemicals company’s latest product is Durethan BLUEBKV60H2.0EF. Ninety-two percent of the raw materials used in this easy-flowing compound have been replaced with sustainable alternatives – that’s more than in any other prime quality glass-fiber-reinforced plastic.