Monthly news from the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI), January 2025UPM Raflatac continues its collaboration with WWF Poland on circular economy and privately protected areas
During the new three-year contract period the collaboration will focus on enabling the development of circular economy and promoting privately protected areas, especially the wetlands in Poland
Verbio in Bitterfeld: Construction progress on the new ethenolysis plant
Construction of the new plant in Bitterfeld progressing apace - The first distillation column was built in November 2024 - Verbio will use a Nobel Prize-winning technology to manufacture renewable specialty chemicals in the future - Working for the climate: Verbio is recruiting new employees
European Commission Officially Recognised ISCC EU for the Certification of RFNBOs, RCFs and Forest Biomass
In September 2024, the ISCC received the positive technical assessment from the European Commission for its ISCC EU certification approach for Renewable Fuels of Non-Biological Origin and Recycled Carbon Fuels
The chance for companies to contribute to the world’s leading event: The Renewable Materials Conference
The international meeting place for the chemical, the plastics and materials industries will take place from 22 to 24 September 2025 in Siegburg/Cologne. It presents solutions and innovations for replacing fossil carbon with biomass, CO2 utilisation and recycling
Honeywell’s Technology Chosen By Vioneo For Its Planned European Production Of Fossil Feedstock-free Plastics
Vioneo will also deploy Honeywell’s light olefins recovery process (LORP) and olefins cracking process (OCP) to ensure high-purity ethylene and propylene output while capturing and reusing byproducts
Corn Next Launches CornNext-17: A Groundbreaking Sustainable Solution to Plastic Pollution
A game-changing bio-based material designed to combat the global plastic pollution crisis is accompanyed by the CornNext-17 White Paper, a detailed report that highlights the revolutionary features of the innovative Material
Bayer and Neste to Collaborate on Developing Feedstocks for Renewable Fuels
The companies have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to jointly scale winter canola in the US as a biomass-based feedstock to meet growing demand for renewable fuel / Bayer aims to launch hybrid TruFlex winter canola in the US in 2027, delivering excellent product stability and performance / Overall goal is to help decarbonize the transportation sector with advancing innovative crops for renewable fuels, such as sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel
Cellulose Fibre Innovation of the Year 2025: Six Innovations are Nominated
The use of leaves for cellulose pulp and packaging, seaweed as a feedstock for biosynthetic fibres, plant-based surface material for car interiors and much more – The award nominees are as diverse as the thematic spectrum of the Cellulose Fibres Conference 2025 in Cologne
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