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28 June 202322 June 2023

Anniversary of BRAIN Biotech AG

30 years for a bio-based future

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27 June 202326 June 2023

Clean, sustainable fuels made ‘from thin air’ and plastic waste

Researchers have demonstrated how carbon dioxide can be captured from industrial processes – or even directly from the air – and transformed into clean, sustainable fuels using just the energy from the sun

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Covestro receives Best Polymer Producers Award for polycarbonate

Supplier award ceremony at the conference "A Circular Future with Plastics" in Lyon

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Best Polymer Producers Award für Polycarbonat

Covestro erhält auf der Konferenz „Eine zirkuläre Zukunft mit Kunststoffen“ in Lyon den Best Polymer Producers Award für Polycarbonat

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26 June 202320 June 2023

Clariant launches Desi Pak® ECO with new bio-based moisture-adsorbing packets

Specially-designed packaging solution focused on using raw materials and transportation packaging that have a lower environmental impact

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ArcelorMittal and LanzaTech announce first ethanol samples from commercial flagship carbon capture and utilisation facility in Ghent, Belgium

Facility employing LanzaTech’s cutting-edge carbon recycling process couples decarbonization technology with chemical production to advance EU’s 2030 Climate Target Plan and a circular economy

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Direct Air Capture and the Circular Carbon Economy

A New Approach to Emissions Reduction

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Stora Enso is laying the foundation for the future of circular packaging in Oulu, Finland

The future of packaging is circular and to be achieved with solutions that are net positive for both climate and biodiversity

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23 June 202319 June 2023

Neste decides to invest in liquefied waste plastic upgrading unit at its Porvoo refinery

Important milestone in scaling up chemical recycling. Investment of 111 million euros

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A Carbon Capture Utilisation future

Avantium’s Chief Technology Officer Gert-Jan Gruter makes a case for Carbon Capture Utilisation as the “golden ticket” for a net-zero future

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22 June 202319 June 2023

First CBE JU grant agreements provide €116 million for circular bio-based sector

Following its first call for proposals, the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) has recently signed its first 21 grant agreements

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21 June 202316 June 2023

Asahi Kasei and Mitsui establish supply and procurement system for bio-methanol

Asahi Kasei plans to use the bio-methanol procured from Mitsui to produce engineering plastics in Japan with a lower carbon footprint than the current product lineup

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Innovative Carbon Capture and Use Technologies: Transforming Emissions into Valuable Resources

This article will explore some of the most promising CCU technologies and their new economic opportunities

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20 June 202315 June 2023

Plastics Europe welcomes UNEP’s step closer to a draft agreement on a global plastics treaty

In her opening speech, Virginia Janssens, Managing Director of Plastics Europe, made a plea for ‘a total market transformation that drastically reduces the influx of new plastics

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Plastic waste: agreement is just the start

Many fear that major plastics producers like the US, China and Saudi Arabia will only approve of better recycling. But the need to come into action is generally felt

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Microalgae for Carbon Capture

Harnessing Microalgae for Efficient Carbon Capture and Storage

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19 June 202314 June 2023

Successful LIGNOFLAG project completion: EU-funded large-scale commercial plant produces bioethanol from agricultural residues

Clariant’s sunliquid® technology converts unused agricultural residues into cellulosic ethanol, an advanced, highly sustainable biofuel that can already be used as a drop-in solution in fuel blending

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Open Letter: Europe Can Count on the Bioenergy Industry for its Net-Zero Goals

Bioenergy plays and will keep on playing an increasingly important role in the EU’s efforts to decarbonise; this sector will be indispensable for meeting the European Union’s climate and energy targets for 2030, 2050 and beyond

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Large-scale test facility at TU Freiberg supplies 15,000 litres of synthetic fuel

The DeCarTrans project is further developing a process for producing synthetic fuel from methanol for the transport sector

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OXCCU Raises $22 Million to Transform Carbon Dioxide into Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Leading carbon-to-value company converting carbon dioxide and hydrogen into industrial and consumer products, has completed a Series A financing to commercialize sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)

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Defossilisation is the way forward

Carbon is essential for life

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16 June 202317 December 2024

The Use of Food and Feed Crops for Bio-based Materials and the Related Effects on Food Security – Recognising Potential Benefits

Renewable Carbon Initiative Publishes New Insights into a Hotly Debated Topic and Urges for Careful and Evidence-based Debates

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Holcim, thyssenkrupp Uhde and TU Berlin test innovative process for carbon capture

The goal is to significantly reduce CO2 emissions from existing cement plants and at the same time prospectively utilize the captured CO2 for other applications

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Lenzing introduces industry’s first innovation to mitigate discoloration of cellulosic-based garments during heat molding

The new solution will first be applicated at targets innerwear and subsequently outerwear and ready-to-wear garments

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Renewable Chemical Innovator Capra Biosciences to Build a Green Biochemical Production Facility in Manassas, Virginia

BioMADE Funding To Accelerate Capra Bioreactor Expansion and Technical Advancement, Aligning with New White House Bioeconomy Goals

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15 June 202313 June 2023

Brand new fibre-based Muoto® gift packaging

The innovative Muoto 3D inner packaging and a box made of Metsä Board’s folding boxboard encase Fiskars ReNew scissors made of recycled material

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Indorama Ventures and Carbios reaffirm partnership to build first-of-a-kind PET biorecycling plant in France

Both parties intent to increase their recycling capacity to 50 billion PET bottles per year by 2025

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Carbios + Indorama: Werk für biobasiertes PET-Recycling in Planung

Fertigstellung von vorgesehenen Kapazitäten über das Recycling von 50.000 Tonnen PET-Abfall im Jahr ist für 2025 geplant

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14 June 202313 June 2023

EUROSAC Congress 2023: From nature to nature

The grand finale was the presentation of the industry’s most promising innovations at the EUROSAC Grand Prix Award

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Luminy® PLA sustainable under EU Taxonomy Regulation

The assessment can be found in the newly launched whitepaper titled "Planting the Future with PLA," which details the regulation and delves into more sustainability aspects of biobased materials

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CircEl‐Paper: Recyclable paper‐based electronics

Millions of tons of electronic waste are produced in the EU every year. With a novel approach, the new EU project "CircEl-Paper" could sustainably improve the recycling process for electronics in the future

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13 June 20237 June 2023

White paper: New guide to the future of plastics

Balance ranging from plastics reduction to a sustainable use of recyclable plastics

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“Opening Ceremony of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Cellulose High-Tech Materials”

The Christian Doppler Labor for Cellulose High-Tech Materials receives funding from four industrial partners and from the Federal Ministry Republic of Austria of Labour and Economy

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12 June 20237 June 2023

Developing and strengthening Europe’s bioeconomy

John Bell, Director of Healthy Planet, DG Research & Innovation at the European Commission, discusses the strategies and initiatives in place to strengthen Europe’s bioeconomy

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Discussion: How to allocate and communicate recycled content in packaging?

A label reading “100% recycled content” should only be allowed for packaging products fully made from recycled content. Otherwise, it should be considered a misleading environmental claim

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9 June 20237 June 2023

Equatic Launches Low-Cost, Gigaton-Scale Technology to Decarbonize at Unprecedented Speed

Equatic emerges from the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering’s Institute for Carbon Management with a carbon dioxide removal agreement from The Boeing Company

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7 June 20232 June 2023

AIMPLAS is working on using end-of-life tyres to create more sustainable materials with improved properties for construction

The group is working within the RECICAUTXU Project, which focuses on developing industrial processes to obtain a new generation of composite materials loaded with devulcanized rubber particles from end-of-life tyres (ELTs)

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6 June 20231 June 2023

BASF’s gas treatment technology to be used by Linde and Heidelberg Materials’ large-scale CO2-capture plant

As a new joint venture 'Capture-to-Use' (CAP2U), the three groups will operate the world’s first industrial-scale carbon capture and utilization (CCU) facility at the Bavarian Heidelberg-location Lengfurt

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Forest soils can increase climate change mitigation with targeted management

Forest soils are larger carbon stocks than the trees that grow on them. Yet global studies on forest carbon stock changes often focus on wood biomass, wood products or various offsetting effects

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5 June 202331 May 2023

New Greenpeace Report Calls Out Toxic Hazards of Recycled Plastic as Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations Resume in Paris

Scientific evidence overwhelmingly points to an urgent need to reduce plastic production and use to meet social justice, health and environmental imperatives

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Vinegar could be secret ingredient in fight against climate crisis

Chemical engineers at Monash University have developed an industrial process to produce acetic acid that uses the excess carbon dioxide(CO2) in the atmosphere, and has a potential to create negative carbon emissions

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2 June 202330 May 2023

From the incinerator to new packaging: Arla Foods explores new way to recycle plastic waste

Chemical recycling helps to reduce CO2 footprint and consumption of fossil feedstock for cheese packaging

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Sulzer signs agreement with Jindan New Biomaterials in China for production of biobased plastic

Jindan will utilize Sulzer’s licensed PLA technology at its new manufacturing plant to produce up to 75’000 tonnes of PLA per year, mainly to be used for food packaging, molded goods and fibers production

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1 June 202330 May 2023

Summer Special 2023 – 20% discount on market and trend reports all around renewable carbon until 31 August 2023

After a successful Renewable Materials Conference 2023, covering all renewable carbon topics, nova-Institute is offering its reports around renewable carbon markets for a special price

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Archaic equation helps scientists control CO2 transformations

From Forgotten Formula to Climate Game Changer: A New Tool for Converting Carbon Dioxide

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31 May 202324 May 2023

Infinium and Navigator CO2 Collaborate on eFuels Project in US Midwest

Navigator to provide approximately 600k TPA of CO2 as a feedstock for ultra-low carbon Infinium eFuels

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30 May 20234 October 2024

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

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

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Messer invests in carbon dioxide recycling using BASF’s gas treatment technology

The flue gas of an industrial company will be recovered for reuse via BASF's OASE® blue technology with recovery and purification processes

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Infinity Recycling, Invest-NL and LyondellBasell invest in Pryme to accelerate the advanced recycling of plastic waste

Pryme is currently building an advanced recycling plant in Rotterdam to convert used plastic into valuable products on an industrial scale with support of its proprietary pyrolysis process

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Paper instead of plastic: sustainable packaging with a good conscience

In the 3D-Thermocell project, German researchers of DHBW Karlsruhe are developing new cheap and light plastic substitute products made of thermoformable paper as a renewable resource and easy to dispose of along with waste paper