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The winner of this year’s BIOPOLYMER Innovation Award , announced 15 June during the Biopolymer Processing & Moulding online congress organized by the POLYKUM Association for the Promotion of Polymer Development and Plastics Technology in Germany, was Fabbri Group.

With the launch of its new Kynar® PVDF range, Arkema is further advancing its sustainability ambitions wih what it claims is a ‘major innovation’.

Bioplastics producer Danimer Scientific today announced the successful completion of debottlenecking initiatives within its Winchester, Ky., manufacturing facility.

Clariter, an international clean-tech company, announced today that it won Frost & Sullivan's 2021 Technology Innovation Leadership Award in the European chemical upcycling of plastic waste Industry.

Packaging supplier Novolex has announced that it has launched a new production line in Tennessee, USA to manufacture compostable cold beverage cups made from the plant-based bioplastic, PLA.

LyondellBaselland Neste today announced a long-term commercial agreement under which LyondellBasell will source Neste RE, a feedstock from Neste that has been produced from 100% renewable feedstock from bio-based sources, such as waste and residue oils and fats.

TotalEnergies, MPG Manifattura Plastica S.p.A. and Froneri have joined forces to develop a sustainable food packaging made from Certified Renewable Polypropylene.

Basaltex, pioneers in innovative uses of basalt fibres, has achieved a significant milestone in developing and testing a new composite material solution comprising fibres of basalt combined with EconCore’s patented honeycomb technology.

Delica AG has launched the new more sustainable coffee capsule for use in it proprietary Delizio capsule machines

Cargill and HELM are entering into a joint venture, Qore, to help leading brands replace fossil-based chemistries with bio-based intermediates, enabling them to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

Green Dot Bioplastics, Inc. held a groundbreaking ceremony last week, celebrating the start of construction on its expansion project at the Green Dot facility in Onaga, Kans.

Greiner Packaging is pursuing various approaches to make its packaging solutions as sustainable as possible. One course of action is to use so-called circular materials – that is, renewable, non-fossil fuel feedstocks.

Carbios, the French pioneer of enzymatic end-of-life solutions for plastic and textile polymers, announced today the acquisition of the SPI Fund’s entire stake in Carbiolice capital (37.29%).

In pursuit of its 2030 ambition to reduce the use of fossil fuel-based plastics by half before the end of the decade, Kimberly-Clark announced a partnership with the biotech company RWDC Industries to advance sustainable technology for consumer products that provides much-needed solutions to the world's single-use plastics problem.

While plastics are processed at temperatures considerably higher than 100 degrees Celsius, enzymes usually become denatured at these high temperatures. Now, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP have managed to reconcile these contradictions: they are able to embed enzymes in plastics without the enzymes losing their activity in the process.

Published yesterday, the Final Guidelines to Directive (EU) 2019/904, known as the Single Use Plastics Directive (SUPD), struck a blow to Europe’s PHA industry by qualifying PHA as a non-natural polymer.

RWDC Industries, a biotechnology company on a mission to replace single-use plastics through innovative and cost-effective biopolymer material solutions, today announced the appointment of Thomas Aebischer as chief financial officer and member of the company's board of directors, effective May 28, 2021.

The Coca-Cola Company and The Ocean Cleanup today announced that Coca-Cola will become a Global Implementation Partner for The Ocean Cleanup’s river project. The unique partnership brings the international company and technological non-profit together behind a clear objective: to stem the tide of plastic pollution entering the world’s oceans, by first intercepting waste in rivers.

Today the US Patent Office announced a grant for one of PulPac´s most general patents, stating that Dry Molded Fiber is invented and duly owned by the Swedish scale-up company. The United States is the world´s second largest packaging consumer market, after China.

The Thailand Board of Investment (BOI) said on May 27 it has approved NatureWorks Asia Pacific Co.,Ltd.'s application to invest more than 15 billion baht (around USD490 million) in a project to produce Polylactic Acid (PLA).

WinCup Holdings Inc. has partnered with Delaware North, a leading global hospitality and entertainment company, to introduce phade Eco-Stirrers at the 2021 PGA Championship.

Avantium N.V, a leading technology company in renewable chemistry, announces that that it has been awarded a total of €1.78 million by the EU Horizon 2020 program.

PlasticsEurope announces a significant increase in planned chemical recycling investment: from 2.6 billion Euros in 2025 to 7.2 billion Euros in 2030. To further accelerate investments in this key technology and the transition towards a circular economy, PlasticsEurope is calling for a harmonised and strong policy and regulatory framework.

Regina has chosen new DuPont Delrin® Renewable Attributed resin for its chains and modular belts for bottling, packaging, and glass manufacturing conveyor applications.

Quadpack, an international manufacturer and provider of enhanced packaging solutions for beauty brand owners and contract fillers, has unveiled its most circular pack yet, a 50ml jar in Sulapac biocomposite material, with upgraded barrier technology.

As far back as 2018, architectural firms were already surprising the industry with bioplastics-centered projects, including a full-sized, 3D printed, 700m² canal home in Amsterdam made entirely from bioplastics.

As a member of BioChem Europe – a subdivision of Cefic – HCS Group will help shape and contribute to the future of renewable chemicals in Europe.  

EarthFirst Films by PSI, a global bioplastic film technology and manufacturing company, announced in an 18 May statement the successful completion of the first commercial run of PHA - polyhydroxyalkanoate - home compostable packaging film.

A new report has been published, laying out the current state of the carbon economy within the EU as well as the technological and societal challenges that prohibit a sustainable transition to the circular economy.

Leading specialty chemicals innovator Perstorp is pioneering in the PVC market with the introduction of a general-purpose plasticizer partly based on renewable raw material using a traceable mass balance concept.