6 May 2024: Market update on bio-based building blocks and polymers: Global capacities, production and trends 2023-2028
Webinar: Pia Skoczinski (nova-Institute) will present her insights on May 6th 2024 at 10.00 to 11.00 CET.
Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B5wKVZNPRPa-cF-FKVgGYw#/registration
21 March 2024: Avantium presents the annual figures from the flagship plant in Delfzijl in a video
You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsFbUq_7HYo
26 February 2024: PEF (polyethylene furanoate): A bio-based polyester for textile industry
Webinar: Pavan Kumar Manvi (Avantium) will present his insights on February 26th 2024 at 11.00 to 12.00 CET.
Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__s0h3cOwSPOwDVVG8HPM_w
05 February 2024: PEF in bottle applications: material properties, processing, and performance
Webinar: Ele de Boer (Avantium) and Josh Turner (BMT) will present their insights on February 5th 2024 at 14.00 to 15.00 CET.
Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wrtYTVliSzy2REoEe16IuA
25 January 2024: Interview with Samira Choupin about LVHM’s appplication of Avantium’s bio-based Polyethylene Furanoate (PEF)
Interview on Renewable Carbon News
Samira Choupin from LVMH
16 January 2024: Helios Resins signs multi-year capacity reservation agreement to purchase FDCA developed by Avantium
Press release by Avantium
January 2024: Cytotoxicity studies and antibacterial modification of poly(ethylene 2,5-furandicarboxylate) nonwoven
Scientific article in Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces by Mariia Svyntkivska, Tomasz Makowski et al. (Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies Polish Academy of Sciences)
13 December 2023: Avantium focuses on maximising the potential of its FDCA and PEF technology
Press release by Avantium
6 December 2023: Recyclable PEF bottles and yarns at CBE JU Stakeholder Forum
Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) displayed PEFerence demonstrators at the CBE JU Stakeholder Forum 2023. PEF yarns and recyclable PEF bottles were showcased in Brussels on 6 December. Virginia Puzzolo (CBE JU) and Ed de Jong (Avantium) opened the exhibition to an interested audience.
The PEFerence team also enjoyed the future-orientated discussions during the parallel sessions and the networking with people fully invested in bio-based industry and products.
29 November 2023: PANGAIA and Avantium partner to bring sustainable apparel collection based on Avantium’s 100% plant-based PEF to the market
Press release by Avantium
21 November 2023: Albert Heijn to use Avantium’s 100% plant-based PEF for packaging of own-brand products
Press release by Avantium
June 2023: The Use of Food and Feed Crops for Bio-based Materials and the Related Effects on Food Security
Free download on Renewable Carbon Publications
26 June 2023: Interview with Dr. Adrian Brandt about Henkel’s use of Avantium’s FDCA, a bio-based aromatic building block
Interview on Renewable Carbon News
23–25 May 2023: PEFerence demonstrators at the Renewable Materials Conference
This years Renewable Materials Conference attendees showed big interest in the demonstrators at the PEFerence booth.
The PEFerence consortium aims to replace a significant share of fossil-based polyesters, such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and packaging materials like glass and metal with 100 % bio-based PEF (polyethylene furanoate): a plant-based, fully recyclable polymer with superior performance and significantly reduced carbon footprint compared to conventional polymers. PEF can be used in a wide range of applications such as bottles, packaging, films, fibres and textiles. Some of these applications were shown in Siegburg in May 2023.
22 March 2023: Avantium and Kvadrat sign offtake agreement for the development of PEF for interior textiles
Press release by Avantium
1 April 2023: The global warming potential and the material utility of PET and bio-based PEF bottles over multiple recycling trips
Scientific article in the Journal of Cleaner Production by P. Stegmann (Utrecht University), T. Gerritse (Sweco AB) et al.
Ángel Puente (nova-Institute) from the PEFerence consortium contributed with the LCA of Avantium’s PEF bottles.
Press release by Avantium
24 January 2023: Avantium and Henkel sign offtake agreement on FDCA for adhesives to be used in electronics applications
Press release by Avantium
21 December 2022: Avantium and Monosuisse sign offtake agreement on PEF for industrial fibres
Press release by Avantium
7 December 2022: Plastic futures and their CO2 emissions
Scientific article in nature by P. Stegmann, V Daioglou et al. (Utrecht University)
Avantium and nova-Institute collaborated with the working group.
November 2022: Growing in circles: A circular bioeconomy for plastics
PhD thesis P. Stegmann, Utrecht University
Ángel Puente (nova-Institute / PEFerence LCA work package lead) co-authored chapter 5: "Message in a bottle - The global warming potential and the material utility of PET and bio-based PEF bottles over multiple recycling trips"
31 August 2022: New bio-based polymer PEF shows low CO2 footprint
Article and press release by nova-Institute
17 August 2022: LVMH Perfumes & Cosmetics Houses signs offtake agreement with Avantium for the use of PEF for its cosmetics packaging
Press release by Avantium
22 June 2022: Avantium and Carlsberg sign offtake agreement on PEF
Press release by Avantium
21 June 2022: Avantium forms PEF Textile Community with five leading companies to develop PEF yarn applications
Press release by Avantium
20 April 2022: Avantium celebrates the First Piling Ceremony for its FDCA Flagship Plant
Press release by Avantium
14 March 2022: Fire Propagation Behavior of Some Biobased Furanic Compounds with a Focus on the Polymer PEF
Scientific article in ACS Publications by Anitha Muralidhara, Ed de Jong et al.
3 March 2022: The Road to Bring FDCA and PEF to the Market
Scientific publication, Ed de Jong et al., Polymers
21 February 2022: Life Cycle Assessment study demonstrates the potential of Avantium’s FDCA and PEF technology to curb global warming
Press release by Avantium
9 December 2021: Avantium takes a positive Final Investment Decision on the construction of its FDCA Flagship Plant
Press release by Avantium
22 April 2021: Cosun Beet Company and Avantium join forces with the ambition to produce plant-based glycols from sugars
Press release by Avantium
24 March 2021: Carlsberg Group joins the PEFerence consortium and deepens collaboration with Avantium
Press release by Carlsberg
24 March 2021: Avantium secures new offtake contracts for planned FDCA flagship plant
Press release by Avantium
9 February 2021: Avantium acquires the right to use Eastman’s FDCA-related patent portfolio
Press release by Avantium
3 February 2021: Avantium publishes its Sustainability Plan ‘Chain Reaction 2030’ – a pioneering roadmap for a fossil-free chemical industry
Press release by Avantium
27 January 2021: Avantium provides update on the FDCA flagship plant final investment decision process
Press release by Avantium
16 December 2020: Avantium awarded € 5.4 million grant from Netherlands Enterprise Agency for expansion of FDCA pilot plant
Press release by Avantium
23 September 2020: Avantium grants Kebony rights to use its patented technologies on humins for wood modification
Press release by Avantium
22 July 2020: This startup’s plant-based plastics promise circularity. Can it deliver?
Check out the article by 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.