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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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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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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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6 July 20234 July 2023

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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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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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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4 July 20233 July 2023

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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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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3 July 202328 June 2023

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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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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29 June 202322 June 2023

Henkel Adhesive Technologies is driving progress towards climate-positive operations

Henkel has a longstanding track-record as a leader in sustainability for decades and constantly drives transformational change to create value for its stakeholders

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Carbon2Chem®: Pilot plant for methanol production starts operation at thyssenkrupp Steel Europe’s steel mill in Duisburg

The methanol plant was moved to the steel mill to get it operated with gases from ongoing steel production

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Trojan Horse Polymers for a Circular Economy

New strategy for recyclable polyolefins

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28 June 202322 June 2023

A global first for circularity: Södra and Lenzing receive largest EU LIFE subsidy for recycling project

EU funding for textile recycling project on an industrial scale. Huge boost to circularity. Lenzing and Södra – a long-standing partnership for systemic change

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New living lab Biobased Boulevard to encourage use of natural building materials

Entrepreneurs, researchers and clients can use the living lab to test innovations

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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