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7 July 20234 July 2023

BioBased Circular Proposal with Avantium selected by National Growth Fund for funding to make plant-based materials

The Dutch cabinet announced that the National Growth Fund (Nationaal Groeifonds) has selected the BioBased Circular (BBC) proposal[i] for funding

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PureCycle: Probebetrieb einer PP-Recyclinganlage in Ohio

Das US-amerikanische Kunststoffrecycling-Unternehmen PureCycle Technologies hat den Probebetrieb einer Anlage für das Recycling von Polypropylen-Abfällen in Ohio aufgenommen

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Poland provides untapped opportunities for Europe’s bio-based sector and green growth

The Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC), Europe’s leading industry association putting circularity, innovation and sustainability at the heart of the European bioeconomy, has published an updated version of its Country Report on Poland

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World’s tallest wooden wind turbine tower being built in Sweden

The company’s first commercial installation is being built for the energy company Varberg Energi

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Compostable Plastics: Unlocking the Potential in the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation

10 Member States are at risk of missing the target of 65% recycling of packaging waste by 2025

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Kompostierbare Kunststoffe: Das Potenzial der Verpackungs- und Verpackungsabfallverordnung erschließen

Zehn Mitgliedstaaten laufen Gefahr, das Ziel einer 65-prozentigen Wiederverwertung von Verpackungsabfällen bis 2025 zu verfehlen

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Braskem and New Iridium Partner to Develop CO₂ Conversion Technology and Contribute to the Industry’s Carbon Neutrality

Braskem has partnered with New Iridium, a startup based in Colorado. This initiative, and others in development, aim to advance technologies to convert CO₂ generated by industrial operations

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Excitement grows about ‘natural hydrogen’ as huge reserves found in France

While carrying out work to check the risk of firedamp pockets in the abandoned mines of the Lorraine region in May, La Française d’Énergie (FDE) discovered a large deposit of natural hydrogen, igniting hopes that it could be a game changer in Europe’s energy transition

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Frankreich jubelt über riesiges unterirdisches Wasserstoffvorkommen

Im Mai entdeckte La Française d’Énergie (FDE) in Lothringen ein großes Vorkommen an natürlichem Wasserstoff. Es könnte sich dabei um einen Wendepunkt bei der Energiewende in Europa handeln

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6 July 20234 July 2023

Sustainable adhesion: Ceresana investigates the world market for biobased adhesives

Adhesives make many environmentally friendly products possible: lightweight car bodies and batteries for electromobility, insulation glazing for facades and insulating panels as well as corrugated cardboard packaging or simple paper bags

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Nachhaltige Haftung: Ceresana untersucht den Weltmarkt für Bio-Klebstoffe

Klebstoffe ermöglichen viele umweltfreundliche Erzeugnisse: Leichtbau-Karosserien und Batterien für Elektromobilität, Isolierverglasungen für Fassaden und Dämmstoff-Platten ebenso wie Wellpappe-Verpackungen oder einfache Papiertüten

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Avantium and SCGC partner to bring CO₂-based polymers to pilot phase

Avantium is a frontrunner in developing and commercialising innovative technologies for the production of chemicals and materials based on sustainable carbon feedstocks, i.e. carbon from plants or carbon from the air (CO₂)

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Bloom Labs unveils protein-based alternatives for circular economy

Bloom Labs, a company at the forefront of material science, has developed next-generation alternatives to natural and synthetic fibres, as well as plastics to accelerate the global transition towards a circular economy

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Using Cyanobacteria to Convert Carbon Dioxide into Glucose

Glucose is the most abundant monosaccharide, serving as an essential energy source for cells and as an important feedstock for the biorefinery industry

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Status of Biobased Production of Succinic Acid and Derivatives

The current status and future perspectives on the successful industrialization of biobased succinic acid are discussed in a comprehensive review article in the peer-reviewed journal Industrial Biotechnology

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Quotengleichheit beim Recycling

Kunststoffland NRW vereint Vertreter des chemischen sowie des mechanischen Recyclings. Der Kompromiss: Gleiche Anerkennung der Quoten erst ab 2030

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EU-Taxonomie-Verordnung: Polymilchsäure ist nachhaltig

Die Europäische Union (EU) stuft Luminy Polymilchsäure (PLA) von Total Energies Corbion als gemäß EU-Taxonomie-Verordnung als nachhaltig ein

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5 July 20233 July 2023

Lower Carbon Footprint With Proven High Performance: Röhm Launches Plexiglas® Proterra Molding Compounds On The Market

Röhm offers customers two new ways to lower their product carbon footprint

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Reduzierter Carbon Footprint bei bewährter Leistungsfähigkeit: Röhm bringt Plexiglas® Proterra Formmassen auf den Markt

Röhm bietet Kunden zwei neue Wege, ihren Product Carbon Footprint zu reduzieren

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Positionspapier zum chemischen Recycling für NRW

kunststoffland NRW vereint Vertreter des chemischen sowie des mechanischen Recyclings erstmals in gemeinsamer Position zum chemischen Recycling

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Biggest ever EU LIFE textile funding to the recycling system OnceMore®

In its largest funding ever, EU LIFE has granted 10 million EURO for a project to scale up OnceMore®, an innovative, first-of-a-kind industrial-scale system for recycling of blended textile waste. The project is a collaboration between Swedish Forest industry group Södra and Austrian company Lenzing

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Akribion-Genomics-Team der BRAIN Biotech AG nimmt erfolgreich am Science4Life Venture Cup teil

Die BRAIN Biotech AG freut sich bekannt zu geben, dass das Team von Akribion Genomics den zweiten Platz beim Wettbewerb Science4Life Venture Cup belegt hat

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BRAIN Biotech AG´s Akribion Genomics team successfully competes in Science4Life Venture Cup competition

BRAIN Biotech AG is pleased to announce that the Akribion Genomics team has been awarded second place in the Science4Life Venture Cup

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Producer of Green Fuel from Waste Wins £4m Funding to Capture CO₂ from Process

A company at the forefront of the British clean energy industry has secured almost £4 million in government funding to make its biomass and waste-to-hydrogen plants even greener by using carbon capture.

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Biofuel Made from Algae Isn’t the Holy Grail We Expected

New research using real-world data casts doubt on the energy efficiency of diesel alternatives that come from phytoplankton

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4 July 20234 July 2023

The Greener Manufacturing Show 2023

For the third time, The Greener Manufacturing Show Europe, co-located with Plastic Waste Free World Conference & Expo assumes its rightful place in Cologne, Germany on 8-9 November 2023

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New Joint Venture to Boost Circularity of Secondary Plastic Packaging

LyondellBasell and AFA Nord, a leading recycler of agricultural film, have agreed to create a 50:50 joint venture that intends to recycle post commercial flexible secondary packaging waste

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LyondellBasell: Joint-Venture-Gründung mit AFA Nord – Bau einer Anlage für das Recycling von gebrauchten Polyethylenfolien

Der Chemiekonzern LyondellBasell hat mit dem deutschen Recyclingunternehmen AFA Nord die Gründung des Joint Ventures LMF Nord vereinbart

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IQ Innovationspreis für revolutionäre Rohstoffgewinnung aus CO₂

Beste Innovation Mitteldeutschlands kommt aus Sachsen

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Engineers At UMass Amherst Harvest Abundant Clean Energy from Thin Air, 24/7

Researchers describe the “generic Air-gen effect”—nearly any material can be engineered with nanopores to harvest, cost effective, scalable, interruption-free electricity

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Forscher gewinnen rund um die Uhr reichlich saubere Energie aus der Luft

"Die Luft enthält eine enorme Menge an Elektrizität"

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Energie-Kommune des Monats: Landkreis Ludwigsburg

Der Landkreis nimmt als Modellkommune am Klimamobilitätsplan des Landes Baden-Württemberg sowie am Second-Life-Batterie-Projekt Fluxlicon teil

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Infinite plastic recycling: The technology is ready, but what about legislation?

New chemical recycling technologies are creating an infinite loop for the plastic ecosystem, addressing waste streams that currently lack suitable recycling processes

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Pipette tips made from cooking oil

Ever since vessels made of glass were replaced by fossil-based plastic vessels, these have been irreplaceable in laboratories world-wide

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Pipettenspitzen aus Speiseöl

Seit Glasgefäße durch Kunststoffgefäße auf Erdölbasis verdrängt wurden, sind diese in Laboren weltweit unersetzlich geworden

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3 July 202327 June 2023

Das nova-Institut untersucht nachhaltig nutzbare Biomassepotenziale im Rheinischen Revier

Neue Studie gestartet für das Landesamt für Natur, Umwelt und Verbraucherschutz NRW

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Avantium receives Critical Guidance Recognition for its bioplastic PEF from the US-based Association of Plastic Recyclers

Avantium earned the recognition for the use of PEF, produced with Avantium’s YXY® Technology, in a multilayer PET bottle

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BASF Venture Capital invests in startup DePoly SA

DePoly develops low-energy and selective chemical recycling technologies for polyester waste streams. The company establishes a sustainable source of raw materials from post-consumer and post-industrial plastic waste

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BASF Venture Capital investiert in das Start-up DePoly

DePoly entwickelt energiesparende und selektive chemische Recycling-Technologien für Polyester-Abfallströme

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The future of materials

Advancements in science and technology are enabling many chemical companies to develop and design materials for a more sustainable future

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SOLVAY and SYENSQO revealed as new company names

In the context of the proposed split, the SOLVAY name will be maintained for EssentialCo, a leader in essential chemistry while SYENSQO will become the new name of SpecialtyCo, which will explore the future of science

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Overview of CO₂ capture and electrolysis technology in molten salts

Operational parameters and their effects

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Carbon Capture and Use

A Promising Pathway for Industrial Decarbonization

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30 June 20234 October 2024

Monthly news from the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI), June 2023

Let's take a look at what happened in June 2023 at RCI

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The Government of the Republic of Namibia and Hyphen Hydrogen Energy Sign US$10 billion Green Hydrogen Project Agreement at Official Ceremony

The FIA governs the process for the development, implementation and operation of sub-Saharan Africa’s largest, and its only fully vertically integrated, green hydrogen project

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Namibias Regierung unterzeichnet 10-Milliarden-US-Dollar-Vereinbarung für grünes Wasserstoffprojekt mit Hyphen Hydrogen Energy

Die Vereinbarung, das sogenannte Feasibility and Implementation Agreement (FIA), regelt die Entwicklung, Umsetzung und den Betrieb des größten grünen Wasserstoffprojekts zur Ammoniakproduktion im südlichen Afrika durch Hyphen

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PureCycle’s Ironton Plant Produces First Pellets

This run of post-industrial material allowed PureCycle's manufacturing team to test the core technology concepts across various operating conditions

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Klimafreundlich bauen mit Holz

Viele Treibhausgase entstehen rundum unsere Gebäude: Beim Bau, aber auch beim Betrieb – etwa durch das Heizen

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Mehr Holz ans Haus

Es soll hölzern gebaut werden, wenn es nach der Bundesregierung geht. Sie beschließt eine Initiative, um Beton zu ersetzen

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Econic Technologies and Monument Chemical announce licensing agreement to develop and grow CO₂ based polyurethanes in USA

Econic Technologies, a leading innovator in carbon to value technologies, and Monument Chemical, a leading speciality chemical manufacturer, are pleased to announce their agreement to collaborate on the growth of CO₂ containing polyols in North America