1:22 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Additives
Additives

Avient to expand color concentrate capabilities in Vietnam

Avient Corporation, a premier provider of specialized and sustainable material ...
1:53 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Additives
Prognostication

Avient Colorforward™ experts predict pandemic likely to influence color preferences, even in 2022

Avient Corporation, a premier provider of specialized and sustainable material ...
1:40 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Biobased Material
Funding

Avantium awarded €5.4 million grant from Netherlands Enterprise Agency for expansion of FDCA pilot plant

Avantium N.V announces that the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO - Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland) has awarded the company a €5.4 million grant as part of the Demonstration Energy and Climate Innovation (DEI+) scheme, to be paid out in 16 tranches over a period of 4 years. ...
1:20 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Biobased Material
Plant-based Plastic Materials

Plant-based and recyclable plastic bottles now enabled with VTT’s new FDCA technology using citrus peel as raw material

The shift from fossil-based to renewable bio-plastics requires new efficient ...
1:11 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Biobased Material
Funding

Avantium: €7.5 million grant from National Programme Groningen confirmed

Avantium N.V. announces that the National Programme Groningen has confirmed the award to the company of a €7.5 million grant to support the construction of a 5 kilotonnes FDCA (furandicarboxylic acid) flagship plant, to be built in Delfzijl, The Netherlands. This grant is part of a ...
1:41 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Biobased Material
Material Development

Braskem and Haldor Topsoe achieve first production of bio-based MEG from sugar

Start of production at the demonstration unit confirms potential for large-scale ...
0:35 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Additives
Additive Development

Croda awarded Innovate UK funding in ISCF Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge

Croda’s Smart Materials business will work in collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast to develop a new sustainable slip additive for polyester packaging. The R&D project starts in October 2020 and lasts for 12 months. The aim of this work is to develop a novel polymer ...
1:23 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Biobased Material
PEF Development

Avantium grants Kebony rights to use its patented technologies on humins for wood modification

Avantium N.V, a leading technology company in renewable chemistry, announces that ...
3:50 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Additives
Antiviral Effects

Sukano Masterbatches demonstrate long term antiviral effect*

The antiviral effect was tested by an external laboratory specialized in microbiological tests against Influenza H1N1 and Feline Coronavirus Results showed that over 98 % of the Feline Coronavirus was eliminated within the first two hours Tested on both PET and PA applications in ...
0:33 min Strategies & Market Analysis, Additives
Masterbatches

Lehmann&Voss: New business line Plastic Additives

New business line Plastic Additives with focus on additives and fillers for compounding and masterbatch industry.