{"id":172370,"date":"2026-01-16T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=172370"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:43:27","slug":"co%e2%82%82-derived-plastics-advance-toward-automotive-commercialization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/co%e2%82%82-derived-plastics-advance-toward-automotive-commercialization\/","title":{"rendered":"CO\u2082-Derived Plastics Advance Toward Automotive Commercialization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"780\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2026\/01\/Bildschirmfoto-2026-01-15-um-08.41.40-1024x780.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-172373\" style=\"width:700px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2026\/01\/Bildschirmfoto-2026-01-15-um-08.41.40-1024x780.png 1024w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2026\/01\/Bildschirmfoto-2026-01-15-um-08.41.40-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2026\/01\/Bildschirmfoto-2026-01-15-um-08.41.40-150x114.png 150w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2026\/01\/Bildschirmfoto-2026-01-15-um-08.41.40-768x585.png 768w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2026\/01\/Bildschirmfoto-2026-01-15-um-08.41.40-355x270.png 355w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2026\/01\/Bildschirmfoto-2026-01-15-um-08.41.40.png 1132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Infinium\u2019s eSMR Reform\u2122 solution is the world\u2019s first electrified steam methane reformer at commercial scale. \u00a9INFINIUM<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>The article noted that Mitsubishi Corporation, working with partners including Infinium, has supplied polypropylene resin produced from synthetic raw materials derived from captured carbon dioxide to Volkswagen. Early estimates suggest that manufacturing emissions associated with these components could be reduced by approximately 75% compared to conventional materials.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The development reflects increasing interest from the automotive sector in drop-in, lower-emissions materials that can integrate into existing manufacturing processes without requiring major system changes. For Infinium, outcomes like this underscore the broader opportunity to transform captured carbon into scalable fuels and materials that serve multiple industries, from aviation and heavy transport to automotive manufacturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nikkei.com\/article\/DGXZQOUC123NK0S5A111C2000000\/?n_cid=SECMAIL000_20260106_a03\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">full article is available via Nikkei<\/a> (subscription may be required).<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infiniumco.com\/news\/turning-waste-co-into-high-performance-foam-for-sustainable-fashion\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article noted that Mitsubishi Corporation, working with partners including Infinium, has supplied polypropylene resin produced from synthetic raw materials derived from captured carbon dioxide to Volkswagen. Early estimates suggest that manufacturing emissions associated with these components could be reduced by approximately 75% compared to conventional materials. The development reflects increasing interest from the automotive [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":172373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"A recent report from Japanese news publication, Nikkei, highlights growing momentum in the commercialization of CO\u2082-derived plastics for automotive applications, including components evaluated by Volkswagen","footnotes":""},"categories":[5571],"tags":[10744,10416,27429,12811,12516,10743],"supplier":[18088,2824,203],"class_list":["post-172370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-co2-based","tag-carboncapture","tag-circulareconomy","tag-co2basedplastics","tag-polypropylene","tag-resin","tag-useco2","supplier-infinium","supplier-mitsubishi-corp","supplier-volkswagen-ag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172370"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=172370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}