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10 February 20238 February 2023

Flue2Chem: Putting carbon waste to work for net zero

Industry giants in the UK are joining forces in the first-ever cross-sector collaboration aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Flue2Chem project aims to convert industrial waste gases into chemicals that can be used to manufacture superior and more sustainable consumer products

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Flue2Chem: SCI, Unilever and 13 partners launch £5.4m net zero collaboration project

The £5.4m Flue2Chem Project is a two-year programme spearheaded by Unilever and SCI, with 13 other organisations involved

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Metsä Group receives Finland’s most startup-friendly company award for the second year running

Metsä Group has been honoured for its support of startup communities, advancing sustainable innovations related to various wood-based materials with investments, R&D and production support, thus helping startups bring their innovation to the masses

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Werkstoff-Highlights auf der K 2022: Ist Bio das neue Normal?

Die K 2022 bot eine riesige Auswahl an Neuheiten und Anwendungsbeispielen für und mit nachhaltigeren Materialien. Dabei standen interessanterweise biobasierte Varianten hoch im Kurs. Ein, wegen der schieren Masse gezwungenermaßen unvollständiger, Überblick über die vorgestellten Nachhaltigkeits-Highlights

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Fashion for Good Sorting for Circularity Advances into the US Market

Project expands to the North-American market to drive fibre-to-fibre recycling

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Rose-Gleisbau aus Kassel lässt Gleiserde patentieren

Wie so oft bei Erfindungen stellt sich die Frage: Warum ist da nicht schon früher jemand drauf gekommen? Diese Frage kam auch bei Gleisbauer Jens Rose aus Kassel auf, als er über Pflanzenkohle nachdachte, also über verbrannte Biomasse

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Clariter and TotalEnergies Fluids announce a world premiere: the production of the first ultra-pure solvents made from plastic waste

Clariter, a global cleantech company, and TotalEnergies Fluids, a division of TotalEnergies, have premiered the world's first sustainable ultra-pure solvent made from plastic waste

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Clariter und TotalEnergies Fluids geben eine Weltpremiere bekannt: Erste hochreine Lösungsmittel aus Kunststoffabfällen hergestellt

Clariter, ein globales Cleantech-Unternehmen, und TotalEnergies Fluids, ein Geschäftsbereich von TotalEnergies, haben das weltweit erste nachhaltige, ultrareine Lösungsmittel aus Kunststoffabfällen vorgestellt

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9 February 20237 February 2023

Fairbrics Raises €22 M to Bring to Market its CO2-Based Polyester Fiber and Reduce the Textile Industry’s Carbon Footprint

€17 M come from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation Program and 5 M€ from Partners to the Technology Upscaling Project

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Fairbrics beschafft 22 Millionen €, um seine CO2-basierte Polyesterfaser auf den Markt zu bringen und die Kohlenstoffbilanz der Textilindustrie zu reduzieren

17 Millionen € kommen aus dem Horizon 2020 Forschungs- und Innovationsprogramm der Europäischen Union und 5 Millionen € von Partnern des Technology Upscaling Projects

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Teijin to produce and market polycarbonate resin made from biomass-derived BPA

Teijin is the first Japanese company to obtain ISCC PLUS certification for its PC resin products

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Baustoff ohne sauberen Ersatz: Zement – die schmutzigste Industrie der Welt

ntv-Redakteur Peter Schniering im Interview mit den beiden Experten Clara Pfeffer und Christian Hermann von Future Cleantech Architecs (FCA) im "Klima-Labor" von ntv

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Aker Carbon Capture enters Finnish Power-to-X market

The St1 Power-to-Methanol Lappeenranta project use the hard-to-abate carbon dioxide emissions from the limestone raw-material at the Finnsementti factory

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Researchers develop 100% biodegradable paper straws that do not become soggy

Korean scientists synthesized polybutylene succinate (PBS), by adding a small amount of cellulose nanocrystals to create a new compostable coating material

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E-fuel delivery for the shipping industry

MPC Container Ships and INERATEC sign offtake agreement for sustainable marine diesel

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Lieferung von E-Fuel für den Schiffssektor

MPC Container Ships und INERATEC unterzeichnen Abnahmevertrag für nachhaltigen Schiffsdiesel

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8 February 20237 February 2023

Outstanding start in January: Heimtextil 2023 showed great internationality and set the course for sustainable transformation

The Green Village with its Green Lectures paved the way for discussing with certifiers, industry experts and NGOs about solutions, best practices and challenges around sustainability in the contract business

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Kraftvoll zurück im Januar: Heimtextil 2023 endete mit geballter Internationalität und stellte die Weichen für nachhaltige Transformation

Das Green Village gab mit seinen Green Lectures Zertifizierern, Branchenexpert*innen und NGOs Gelegenheit, über Lösungen, Best Practices und Herausforderungen rund um Nachhaltigkeit zu diskutieren

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Could natural decay be a solution to plastic pollution after all?

The worm saliva contains enzymes that can dissolve plastic bags and packaging, and NIOZ researchers even proved that plastics can be broken down by sunlight

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Entwicklung neuer Biopolymere aus Meeresorganismen

Forscher für biobasierte und biologisch abbaubare Kunststoffe an der Université Bretagne Sud und sein Team arbeiten für das EU-Projekt NenuPHAr

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Holcim’s Carbon2Business project receives €109.8 million in EU funding

Carbon2Business is one of two projects in Germany and 17 projects in total that the EU is funding with around €1.8 billion from the innovation fund

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Want a stronger biodegradable plastic? Add a ‘pinch’ of cream of tartar

Several researchers from KRICT and KTH wanted to see if “seasoning” a biodegradable bioplastic like PBS with fruit-derived tartaric acid or citric acid could improve the plastic’s mechanical properties

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Künstliche Photosynthese nutzt Sonnenlicht zur Herstellung von biologisch abbaubarem Kunststoff

Synthese von Fumarsäure durch eine neue Methode der künstlichen Photosynthese unter Verwendung von Sonnenlicht

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Wissenschaftler stellen das bisher kostengünstigste System zur Kohlenstoffabscheidung vor

Neues System fängt CO₂ effizient ab und wandelt es in eine der weltweit meistverwendeten Chemikalien um

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7 February 20236 February 2023

Only three weeks left – submit your Innovative Product now: The Innovation Award “Renewable Material of the Year 2023

For the third time, a comprehensive award will be presented for the best renewable materials – which can be produced either from biomass, directly via CO₂ utilisation, or recycling

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Bacteria really eat plastic

Scientists at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research found out, that bacteria can break down about one percent of the fed plastic per year into CO2 and other harmless substances

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Bakterien fressen wirklich Plastik

Laborexperiment zeigt, dass Bakterien tatsächlich Plastik fressen und verdauen

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Making a materials leap – using biologically inspired protein building blocks to rival plastics

Novel protein-based materials of the future using synthetic biology and industrial biotechnology, surpass most of their man-made counterparts

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Nachhaltigkeitsziele nur mit Kunststoff erreichbar

Verzicht auf Kunststoffverpackungen würde den CO2-Ausstoß im Lebensmittelsektor drastisch erhöhen – Kunststoff mit Recycling bei Nachhaltigkeit unschlagbar

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Replacing single-use plastic film with algae-based biodegradable edible film

A promising project in line with the EU objectives of fighting plastic pollution aims to create a substitute for single-use plastic film in conserving frozen fish

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Artificial photosynthesis uses sunlight to make biodegradable plastic

Synthesis of fumaric acid by a new method of artificial photosynthesis, using sunlight

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revalyu builds major industrial PET recycling facility in the US

Chemical recycler Revalyu Resources GmbH is bringing the company's glycolysis technology to the United States through a $50 million project

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revalyu: Neues Werk für chemisches PET-Recycling in den USA

revalyu Resources (revalyu), ein Unternehmen für chemisches PET-Recycling, gab heute bekannt, dass es in der ersten Phase seiner strategischen Expansion 50 Millionen US-Dollar in ein Werk in den USA investieren will

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6 February 20231 February 2023

Turning food waste into biodegradable bioplastics

Researchers in the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences received a $2.4 million USDA grant to create affordable bioplastics and reduce plastic waste remaining both on land and in the sea

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Deutscher Holzmarkt reguliert sich selbst

Sinnvolle Holzverwendung braucht kein Ordnungsrecht

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Bioplastics project shows juicy results

The first round project in collaborative effort with Uuvipak aims to lower the use of single-use plastics by improving the functional properties of citrus peels for use as a bioplastic material

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Vor 81 Jahren: Als Henry Ford den Cannabis-Trabi erfand

Ziemlich schick und sehr einmalig: Im Januar 1942 wurde das Konzept für ein besonderes Auto patentiert. Doch der einzige Prototyp ist verschollen, und viele Fragen bleiben offen

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An introduction to bioplastics in medical applications

From medical blisters to body implants, medical plastics are extensively used in the healthcare sector. They have been considered as potential materials for tools and products used in medicine

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Rethinking a waste product of the timber processing industry

Adhesive-free bark panels

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Ein Abfallprodukt der Holzwirtschaft neu gedacht

Klebstofffreie Platten aus Baumrinde

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AIMPLAS collaborates in a new European project to make blueprint for reducing textile waste by 80%

The tExtended project started last December and will achieve this objective by developing and demonstrating effective textile recovery, waste valorization and recycling processes

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3 February 20237 February 2023

Taking Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) and Power-to-X to the next level – Final Program of the “Conference on CO₂-based Fuels and Chemicals 2023”

Leading international experts meet at one of the world’s key events on Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) and Power-to-X from 19-20 April 2023 in Cologne, Germany, and online

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Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) und Power-to-X auf erreicht die nächste Stufe – Das vollständige Programm der „Conference on CO₂-based Fuels and Chemicals 2023“

Führende internationale Experten und Expertinnen treffen sich vom 19. bis 20. April 2023 in Köln zu einer der weltweit wichtigsten Veranstaltungen im Bereich der CO2-Nutzung, Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU), und Power-to-X

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New catalyst design could make better use of captured carbon, researchers say

University of Toronto scientists found a new catalyst design that could significantly improve the practicality of an electrochemical process that converts captured carbon dioxide into multi-carbon molecules

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Medizinisches Plastik vom Feld

BIOVOX entwickelt Biokunststoffe für die Gesundheitsbranche

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GoDanuBio’s contribution to the bioeconomisation of the Danube Region

GoDanuBio supported the set-up of policy frameworks and participative governance schemes in the participating regions. The main topics were circular bioeconomy, sustainable rural development and rural-urban interactions

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Aufbruch zu mehr Bioökonomie im Donauraum

Nach seinem erfolgreichen Abschluss blickt das Projekt „GoDanuBio“ auf zweieinhalb Jahre Projektzeitraum zurück und präsentiert seine Ergebnisse

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Clothing reuse has a 70 times lower environmental impact reveals new study

EuRIC paper revealed that a massive 3kg of CO2 is saved for each high/medium-quality clothing that is reused

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Hemp makes a comeback in the construction industry

According to a European Commission report, the carbon sequestering properties of hemp are remarkable and hemp blocks are better at insulating from heat and sound than brick and concrete

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Braskem joins the Renewable Carbon Initiative

Braskem (São Paulo, Brazil), the global leader in biobased polymer production, has joined the Renewable Carbon Initiative as part of its commitment to achieving carbon neutrality