Category: FDCA
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Avantium Announces Offtake Agreement with PLIXXENT for FDCA in Insulation Foams
Using PEF in insulation foams? The most absurd idea of 2025. Come on, if this is not greenwashing then I don’t know. PLIXXENT is officially the biggest greenwasher around. If you need to communicate on your offtake agreements … then it’s pretty bad already.
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Origin Materials And Husky Achieve Commercialization Milestone For Advanced Packaging
Recyclable PET polymer incorporating FDCA successfully processed into preforms usingHusky’s commercial-scale injection molding equipment and subsequently bottles Novel hybrid polymer “PET/F” expected to deliver enhanced performance compared with traditional PET plastic and have up to 100% bio content
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MSU Granted for PEF Research
The project aims to find a better way of turning biomass sugars into FDCA
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Stora Enso Launches Furacore Process to Produce FDCA
Plastic as we know it is at the edge of a revolution, and this is how FuraCore® by Stora Enso can help
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First Synthetisation of Bio PISAz and PISFAZ
Tuning thermal properties and biodegradability of poly(isosorbide azelate) by compositional control through copolymerization with 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid
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Bioplastics from CO2
The Use of CO2 in the Production of Bioplastics for an Even Greener Chemistry
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Bioplastic Bottle from Citrus Peel
Plant-based and recyclable plastic bottles now enabled with VTT’s new FDCA technology using citrus peel as raw material
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Vietnam Goes Bioplastics
Vietnam has adopted an ambitious roadmap to stop using disposable plastic at stores, markets and supermarkets in urban areas by 2021 and in the whole country by 2025, and replace them with biodegradable materials.
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Avantium to Build FDCA Plant in the Netherlands
Avantium, announces today that Avantium Renewable Polymers has signed a letter of intent to locate its new flagship plant at Chemie Park Delfzijl, the Netherlands.
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Avantium Will Build FDCA Plant With Help of BBIJU
The Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU), an EU body, reconfirmed to award the PEFerence consortium, coordinated by Avantium Renewable Polymers, with a €25 million “PEFerence” Horizon 2020 grant.
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Japan and The Netherlands Revolutionise The Production of FDCA
A new method to synthesize FDCA from a glucose derivative of non-food plant cellulose has been discovered, paving the way for a bioplastics revolution.
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Chinese Create PCF from FDCA and May Disrupt PET and PEF
The bio-based polyester demonstrated great potential and could be used as engineering plastic.
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Will Switzerland Disrupt the PEF Market?
Researchers at the ETH Zurich University have improved the method to produce PEF drastically.
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FDCA and PEF Production Becomes Cheaper and Faster
German Chemists Discover a Low Cost Catalyst for FDCA. Germany Remains at the top of Bioplastics.
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Metgen Invents Novel Chemo-Enzymatic Route to FDCA
MetGen Oy, based in Kaarina – Finland, has invented a revolutionary chemo-enzymatic pathway that enables streamlined processes towards platform chemicals like 2,5-Furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) also known as dehydromucic acid.
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BASF and Avantium form Synvina, a Biobased Chemicals JV
BASF (Germany) and Avantium (NL) have formed a joint venture for the production and marketing of furan-dicarboxylic acid (FDCA), which is produced from renewable resources, as well as the marketing of polyethylene-furanoate (PEF) based on the new chemical building block FDCA.
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The Great Future of Furanic Chemistry
2,5-Furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA), also known as dehydromucic acid, is an oxidized furan derivative. This organic compound was first obtained by Fittig and Heinzelmann in 1876.
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Bottles from Furfural
Bioplastics PEF (polyethylene furanoate) is an alternative to PET and bio-PET for soft drink bottles, offering enhanced functionalities.
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