1:47 min Materials, Processing & Handling, PET materials
PET foams

SABIC's new, breakthrough LNP™ COLORCOMP™ compound uses nanotechnology to enable differentiated foams

SABIC introduced LNPTM COLORCOMPTM WQ117945 compound, a breakthrough material based on advanced nanotechnology that facilitates efficient production of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) foams for core materials in sandwich structures. This new compound improves control over ...
3:29 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Additives
Forecast

Chroma Color: Three plastic masterbatch trends for 2021

Chroma Color Corporation experienced an increased demand for enhanced masterbatch ...
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 ...