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 ...
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 ...
6:57 min TWO:20, Materials, Processing & Handling, Biobased Material, …
MULTILAYER BARRIER TECHNOLOGY WITH PEF

PEF as a multilayer barrier technology: a sustainable way to enable long shelf life in PET bottles

Avantium Renewable Polymers, a 100% subsidiary of Avantium, plans to build a ...
1:20 min Markets and Management, Management, Materials, Processing & Handling, …
PEF

Worley / Avantium: From plants to plastics - bringing a next-generation sustainable plastic to the market

Worley has been awarded a FEED (front-end engineering design) to develop Avantium’s flagship plant that will support the transition to a bio-based economy for plastics. The plant will produce 100% plant-based FDCA (furandicarboxylic acid) – a key building block for many chemicals and ...
17:17 min ONE:20, Sustainability & Circular Economy, …
PEF - The Green PET

PEF Strategy - Focus on high-value applications

We met Tom van Aken in his office in Amsterdam in January, just after Avantium ...
5:10 min ONE:20, Materials, Processing & Handling, …
A combination fit for future sustainable barrier packaging solutions

PET and PEF

Poly(ethylene 2,5-furandicarboxylate) (PEF) has a barrier that is reported to be up ...
3:17 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Biobased Material
New Plant

Avantium to build FDCA flagship plant at Chemie Park Delfzijl, Netherlands

Avantium, a leading technology company in renewable chemistry, announces today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Avantium Renewable Polymers, has signed a letter of intent to locate its new flagship plant at Chemie Park Delfzijl, the Netherlands. The 5-kiloton facility will produce ...
1:37 min Biobased Material
New plant

Avantium locates demonstration plant for third technology program Mekong in Delfzijl

Avantium has decided to locate the new demonstration plant for its Mekong technology ...