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22 July 2020: This startup’s plant-based plastics promise circularity. Can it deliver?
Check out the article from GreenBiz.
21 May 2020: A New Plant-Based Plastic Will Degrade in a Year
The Weather Channel featuring the project. Click here to read.
18 May 2020: Coca Cola and Carlsberg to introduce new plant-based bottles
Article published in Evening standard, click here to read.
17 May 2020: New Plant-Based Bottles Backed By Coca-Cola And Carlsberg Will Degrade In Just A Year
Check out the article published in UNILAD. Click here.
17 May 2020: The end of plastic bottles? Coca-Cola and Carlsberg back new all-plant drinks containers that will rot away to nothing within a year
Read the daily mail article here.
16 May 2020: The end of plastic? New plant-based bottles will degrade in a year
Carlsberg and Coca-Cola back pioneering project to make ‘all-plant’ drinks bottles. Read the article in the Guardian. Click here.
15 January 2020:Avantium to build FDCA flagship plant at Chemie Park Delfzijl, Netherlands
Article in Bio-based news. Read here.
8 January 2020: Avantium to build FDCA flagship plant at Chemie Park Delfzijl, Netherlands
Avantium press release. Click here to read.
25 October 2017: Five-year EU flagship project to establish an innovative supply chain for FDCA and PEF
On September 20th 2017, the official kick-off was held for the PEFerence project in Geleen, the Netherlands. The consortium consists of 11 companies from 8 countries including Synvina, Avantium, BASF, Tereos (France), Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner (Austria), OMV Machinery (Italy), Croda Nederland (The Netherlands), Nestec (Switzerland), Lego System (Denmark), nova-Institut für politische und ökologische Innovation (Germany), and Spinverse Innovation Management (Finland). Read more here.
08 June 2017: EUR 25 million subsidy granted: Industry Consortium receives funds for polyethylenfuranoate (PEF)
The European Joint Undertaking on Bio-Based Industries (BBI), consisting of representatives from the European Union and the bio-based industry, granted 25 million Euro to “PEFerence”, a consortium of eleven companies. The grant supports the establishment of an innovative value chain for bio-based raw materials as well as chemicals and materials based on polyethylenefuranoate PEF. It includes the intended construction of a 50,000 tons FDCA reference plant, the main chemical building block for the production of PEF. Synvina will be coordinating the “PEFerence” project. Read more here.