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11 December 20246 December 2024

New research highlights marine biodegradability of Eastman Aventa™ compostable materials

Biodegradable, CDA-based foams are commercially useful and will not persist in our oceans as plastic pollution


5 December 20242 December 2024

UPM Specialty Papers and Eastman introduce paper-based food packaging solution with compostable biobased coating

Thanks to the thinness of the coating layer, the solution is designed for recycling within existing fibre recycling streams, empowering brands to adopt sustainable packaging


12 November 20247 November 2024

WHOI Scientists Discover Fastest Degrading Bioplastic in Seawater

Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution-researchers found that a new version of cellulose diacetate to be the fastest degrading bioplastic material tested in seawater


16 August 202415 November 2024

Eastman Naia™ team empowers next generation of sustainable fashion designers

The Naia™ team presented at one of Asia’s most prestigious fashion college and in Spain about Eastman Naia™ Renew, a groundbreaking and sustainable cellulosic fiber


5 June 202429 May 2024

Auf dem Weg zur Kunststoff-Wertschöpfungskette: OMV, HolyGrail 2.0, Eastman

Kommentar von Victoire Carous, Senior Investment Manager & Co-Lead, von Lombard Odier Investment Managers - Plastic Circularity


26 April 202423 April 2024

deSter partners with Eastman to eliminate single-use plastic waste in the airline industry

Tritan Renew, an innovative material for the production of reusable in-flight drinkware


9 April 20244 April 2024

Eastman molecular recycling facility achieves on-spec initial production and is generating revenue 

The company expects to ramp up production of the new facility over the coming months and enable growth across a wide range of markets


22 February 202416 February 2024

Rumpke and Eastman join forces to expand recycling of PET waste

Rumpke will begin collecting and sorting hard-to-recycle and colored PET packaging waste, and will provide 100 percent of this waste stream as feedstock to Eastman’s molecular recycling process


9 February 20245 February 2024

Lifetime of ‘biodegradable’ straws in the ocean is 8-20 months, study finds

A team of researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and others conducted experiments using real seawater to investigate the environmental lifetimes of different straws


3 January 202419 December 2023

NatureWorks: Erik Ripple neuer Präsident und CEO

Ripple wird die Nachfolge von Interimspräsidentin und CEO Jill Zullo antreten, die diese Funktion seit März 2023 innehatte


15 December 202314 December 2023

NatureWorks Appoints Erik Ripple New President and CEO

Ripple joins NatureWorks as it continues market-leading growth and innovation with construction of new 75kta Ingeo biopolymer manufacturing facility underway in Thailand


29 November 202323 November 2023

Scent-flavored hydration leader air up® launches new Generation 2 bottle made with Tritan™ Renew

Tritan Renew is made with 50% certified recycled content* using Eastman's molecular recycling technology, which breaks down hard-to-recycle waste plastics into their molecular building blocks to create new polymers


Der führende Anbieter von Trinkwasserlösungen mit duftbasiertem Geschmack, air up®, bringt eine neue Generation 2 Flasche mit Tritan™ Renew auf den Markt

Tritan Renew wird mit 50% zertifiziertem Recycling-Anteil* unter Verwendung der molekularen Recyclingtechnologie von Eastman hergestell


7 November 20237 November 2023

Naia™ Renew Fibers And The Game-Changing Potential Of Molecular Recycling Take Center At The 2023 Textile Exchange Conference, London

Eastman is pleased to be among the sponsors of the 2023 Textile Exchange Conference and present their molecular recycling technology


6 November 202331 October 2023

Discovering Insider Insights on Textile-to-Textile Recycling with Södra, Kipaş & Säntis, and Eastman

Textile Exchange spoke with the three leading organizations in the textile recycling space to get an insider perspective on their latest innovations, the key challenges and opportunities they see today, and the importance of collaboration in scaling circular solutions


3 November 202331 October 2023

New alliance for chemical recycling of textiles

Accelerating Circularity has launched the Alliance of Chemical Textile Recycling (ACTR)


14 September 20238 September 2023

Plant-based frames and lenses take on oil-based eyewear

Bio-based acetate has started to enter the eyewear frame industry at all price points and bio-based lens production has made progress on recyclable alternatives


6 September 202330 August 2023

Plant-Based Plastics Gain Favor as Companies Pursue Sustainability Goals

Bioplastics production is now growing 14% a year, putting them on track to reach up to 3% of the plastics market in the next five years


24 August 202324 August 2023

Reduce, reuse, recycle: Principle No. 1 for building a circular economy 

Eastman takes a principled approach to developing solutions for the circular economy


4 July 20233 July 2023

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


10 February 20237 February 2023

Fashion for Good Sorting for Circularity Advances into the US Market

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


18 November 202216 November 2022

Eastman confirms offtake agreement with PepsiCo for third US chemical recycling site

Eastman Chemical Co. has signed a deal to supply beverage giant PepsiCo Inc. from its proposed third chemical recycling plant


26 October 202225 October 2022

Mehr als nur chemisches Recycling – Advanced Recycling verbessert die Synergien im Recyclingsektor

Die jüngsten Entwicklungen auf den Märkten und in der Politik deuten einen klaren Wandel und eine dauerhafte Veränderung der Kreislaufwirtschaft für Kunststoffe an


10 October 20227 October 2022

Interzero and Eastman reach long-term supply agreement for planned molecular recycling facility in France

Eastman’s planned molecular recycling facility in France will become the world’s largest material-to-material molecular recycling plant


15 September 202213 September 2022

Eastman joins Pact Collective

Eastman supports beauty industry nonprofit in efforts to advance circularity of beauty packaging


3 August 202229 July 2022

Eastman partners with award-winning TextileGenesis™ traceability technology to provide track-and-trace solutions for Naia™ brand

Following sustainable fibers from feedstock to store stocks


1 July 202230 June 2022

New trend and technology report: Mapping of advanced recycling technologies for plastics waste – providers, technologies, and partnerships

This new report aims to clear up this jungle of information by providing a structured, overview and in-depth insight


1 June 202224 May 2022

Wood conservation

The companies Foreco and Accsys are using different technologies of wood conservation and strengthening without harmful environmental effects


19 May 202220 May 2022

Viele fortschrittliche und bewährte Lösungen zur Substitution fossilen Kohlenstoffs in Chemie und Materialien bereits verfügbar

Elektrochemische Umwandlung von CO2, ein natürliches Polymer zur Beschichtung von Papier und Pappe, und molekulares Recycling von Kunststoffabfällen sind die Gewinner des Innovationspreises "Renewable Material of the Year 2022"


6 May 20222 May 2022

Maip Group announces new sustainable polymers for European automotive market using Eastman’s molecular recycling technologies

Eastman has announced multiple investments for material-to-material molecular recycling facilities to produce new sustainable materials


4 May 20224 May 2022

Next Week: Renewable Materials Conference, 10-12 May, Cologne (Germany) – all information here

List of participants, panel discussions, exhibitors and the nominations for the Renewable Material of The Year 2022 are launched


13 April 202230 August 2023

Six Innovations are Nominated for the “Renewable Material of the Year 2022” Award

Participants at the “Renewable Materials Conference” will vote for the winners


Eastman enters exclusive negotiation with site in Normandy for molecular recycling facility in France

Chemical company selected this location of three potential options


Eastman: Bau der neuen Anlage für molekulares Kunststoffrecycling in der Normandie in Planung

Chemiekonzern evaluierte zuvor drei potenzielle Standorte in Frankreich


25 January 202220 January 2022

Eastman to invest up to $1 billion to accelerate circular economy through building world’s largest molecular plastics recycling facility in France

This multi-phase project includes units that would prepare mixed plastic waste for processing, a methanolysis unit to depolymerize the waste, and polymer lines to create a variety of first-quality materials for specialty, packaging, and textile applications


Eastman: Bau der weltweit größten Anlage für molekulares Kunst­stoff­recycling in Frankreich angekündigt

Mehrstufiges Projekt umfasst Anlagen, die gemischte Kunststoffabfälle für die Verarbeitung vorbereiten, eine Methanolyse-Anlage zur Depolymerisation der Abfälle sowie Polymerlinien zur Herstellung einer Vielzahl von hochwertigen Materialien für Spezial-, Verpackungs- und Textilanwendungen


15 October 202112 October 2021

The Shortest Path To Circular Plastics Is Through The Chemical Companies

Large multinational producers of plastic materials are a core part of a circular future because they can either directly trace their formation back to fossil-oil companies or have significant collaborations with fossil-oil interests


15 September 202114 September 2021

New thinksound™ headphones are first to market with sustainable materials

Flagship over-ear headphones use Eastman Trēva engineering bioplastic


12 August 20216 August 2021

Eastman molecular recycling technologies to advance Procter & Gamble packaging goals

Innovative Eastman Renew materials reduce reliance on virgin plastic packaging


21 July 20219 September 2021

Chemisches Recycling bei Dior: Zurück zum Öl

Dior setzt auf chemisches Recycling, um Verpackungen nachhaltiger zu machen. Diese Methode kann sinnvoll sein, ist es aber nicht immer


5 July 20219 September 2021

Eastman collaborating with SAP on GreenToken to track recycled content

Collaboration will leverage the blockchain-based platform of GreenToken to provide visibility through the value chain of sustainable products, such as the specialty plastics produced with Eastman’s molecular recycling technologies


30 April 20219 September 2021

Three advanced recycling technologies, a CO2-based cleaner, plant leather and a hemp chair are nominated for the innovation award “Renewable Material of the Year 2021”

For the first time: All fossil-free material solutions in one competition at the unique “Renewable Materials Conference”. Six innovations were nominated from 36 submissions. The conference participants will choose the winner.


26 March 20219 September 2021

Chemicals and Materials for the Future: Renewable Materials Conference 2021 – Final Program

Which renewable materials are solutions that meet the needs of future societies? As a response to this challenging question, nova-Institute has decided to unite all relevant industries in the new “Renewable Materials Conference”, May 18–20, 2021, featuring a unique concept to present all renewable material solutions at one event: bio-based, CO2-based and recycled.


9 March 20219 September 2021

Renewable Materials Conference 2021 – A unique concept that covers all renewable materials solutions in one event

Program already available – application period for the innovation award “Renewable Material of the Year 2021” still open! The conference will take place as an online event.


3 March 20219 September 2021

Renewable Materials Conference 2021 – A unique concept that covers all renewable materials solutions in one event

Almost final program already available – application period for the innovation award “Renewable Material of the Year” still open! The conference will take place as an online event.


1 March 20213 March 2021

Avantium in FDCA deal; releases 2030 Sustainability Plan

Avantium got the right to operate under Eastman’s FDCA-related patent portfolio and hopes together with others to establish a fossil-free chemical industry by 2050


Avantium acquires the right to use Eastman’s FDCA-related patent portfolio

The Company believes that this patent licence agreement further paves the way for the commercial production of FDCA and PEF from Avantium’s FDCA flagship plant


16 February 202111 February 2021

Thélios, Mazzucchelli 1849 and Eastman Join Forces to Push Forward Sustainable Innovation in the Eyewear Industry

The three entities are working jointly on the release of acetate eyewear frames which will be significantly more sustainable than the current offer


9 February 20219 September 2021

Eastman and Governor Lee Announce World-Scale Plastic-to-Plastic Molecular Recycling Facility to be Built in Kingsport, Tenn.

Company investing approximately $250 million in facility to make specialty products from plastic waste using its innovative polyester renewal technology


8 February 20219 September 2021

Axilone is first manufacturer of sustainable cosmetics packaging made with Eastman Cristal Renew to obtain ISCC PLUS certification in multiple regions

Axilone begins producing luxury packaging with 50% certified recycled content in the U.S., Europe and China

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