Category: Joint Venture & Partnerships
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Troy University and Hemp Growers Partner on Bioplastics
Troy University partners with the National Hemp Growers Cooperative to research use of hemp fibers in developing biodegradable plastics
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LyondellBasell, Granger and Novacel Partner on Biobased Films
LyondellBasell, Granger and Novacel commercialzing bio-based protective films
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Dow and BSB Nanotechnology Partner on Biobased Chemicals
Dow Announces Partnership With BSB Nanotechnology To Expand Bio-Based, and Low-Carbon Ingredients in the Global Personal Care Market
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Paptic and Walki Partner on Distribution
Paptic Ltd and Walki Group have announced their strategic distribution and converting partnership today.
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First Carbon Capture Shoe
On presents the first ever shoe made from carbon emissions in partnership with LanzaTech, Borealis and Technip Energies
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Troy University and Hemp Growers Partner on Hemp Bioplastics
Troy University partners with the National Hemp Growers Cooperative to research use of hemp fibers in developing biodegradable plastics
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SK Chemical Builds Global Infrastructure for Chemical Recycling
SK chemicals is set to build global infrastructure in China and other countries to meet the rapidly increasing demand for recycled plastic waste around the world.
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Stora Enso and Koskisen Partner on Biobased Furniture Board
A revolutionary bio-based furniture board, joint development by Koskisen and Stora Enso
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Zara and Renewcell Partner on Circular Textiles
Renewcell and ZARA Collaborate to Create a Capsule Collection Made from Material Produced with Circulose®
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Bio-Fed and Piramidal Partner in Brazil
BIO-FED and Piramidal sign distribution agreement for Brazil
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Aquapak and Resinex Partner on Hydropol in EU
We are happy to announce that we will start distributing Aquapak’s Hydropol™ on an exclusive basis as a barrier film in all European countries, except Italy, Spain, and Portugal.
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Eastman Joins Pact Collective
Eastman supports beauty industry nonprofit in efforts to advance circularity of beauty packaging
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Valmet and Metsa Partner on 3D Fiber Production
Valmet and Metsä Group celebrate the inauguration of 3D fiber product pilot plant
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UPM and Dongsung Partner on Bio PU
UPM and Dongsung Chemical announce strategic partnership to develop renewable products using bio-based raw materials
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Swana and USAID Partner on Ocean Plastics
Swana And Usaid’s Global Flagship Program Sign Mou To Address Ocean Plastic Pollution
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LG Chem and ADM Partner on Bioplastics
LG Chem, ADM Complete Agreement for ‘Eco-friendly Bio Plastic’ Joint Ventures in Illinois, USA
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Tipa and Atlapac Partner on Compostable Mailers
Atlapac and TIPA Partner for fully compostable packaging
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Parkside Joins HiBarFilm2 Consortium for Mono Materials Packaging
Parkside lends sustainable packaging expertise to Innovate UK-funded mono-material project
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Tipa and Aquapak Partner on Circular Packaging Solutions
TIPA & Aquapak collaborate to meet industry demand for new innovative circular packaging solutions
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Bluepha and Chori Partner for Japanese Market
Bluepha and Chori Establishing a Strategic Partnership to Develop the Japanese Market
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CJ Bio and Accor Partner on PHA Hotel Amenities
CJ BIO signs MOU with global hotel chain Accor to develop hotel amenities using PHA, an eco-friendly biodegradable material
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MGC and Tokuyama Corporation Partner on Carbon Capture Methanol
MGC and Tokuyama Corporation Begin Joint Study on Social Deployment of Circular Carbon Methanol Utilizing CO2, First of its Kind in Japan
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Dow and BSB Partner on Biobased for Personal Care
Dow Announces Partnership with BSB Nanotechnology to Expand Bio-based, and Low-Carbon Ingredients in the Global Personal Care Market
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Stora Enso and Northvolt Partner on Lignin Batteries
Stora Enso and Northvolt partner to develop wood-based batteries
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Geno and Aquafil Partner on Bio Nylon-6 Production
Geno and Aquafil begin pre-commercial production for plant-based nylon-6 — It looks as if Genomatica was rebranding itself to Geno
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Domino Printing and Futamura Partner on Compostable Laser Coding
Laser Coding of NatureFlex™ Compostable Film for Food Packaging: Domino and Futamura Collaboration
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Tetra Pak and Stora Enso Partner on Beverage Carton Recycling
Stora Enso and Tetra Pak launches feasibility study to accelerate beverage carton recycling in Benelux
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Titan Bioplastics Partners with Spartan Innvovations
Titan Bioplastics, a Sustainable Material Engineering Company, Announces Partnership with Spartan Innovations and Investment from Red Cedar Ventures
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Ginko and Sumitomo Partner on Sustainable Cosmetic Chemicals
Ginkgo Bioworks Announces Latest Collaboration for Beauty and Personal Care Industry with Sumitomo Chemical
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DIC and SAP Partner on Plastic Blockchain
DIC and SAP Partner in Pilot Project Using Blockchain Technology in the Construction of a Waste Plastics Traceability System — SAP is becoming the leader in Plastic Blockchain technology; however one must remember that SAP is the “grandfather” software company. SAP softwares are like coal combustion engines.
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Newlight and CNX Partner on Aircarbon Bioplastic
Newlight and CNX Announce Strategic Agreement to Capture Methane Emissions for Production of Aircarbon. CNX investing in company that makes bioplastics out of greenhouse gasses. CNX will supply the gasses.
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Honeywell and Enlink Partner on Carbon Capture
Honeywell And EnLink Midstream Will Collaborate To Deliver Carbon Capture Solution
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Genomatica and Unilever Partner on Palm Oil Alternative
Geno and Unilever launch $120m venture to scale alternative to palm oil and fossil fuels
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CJ CheilJedang and Kyungpook National University Partner on PET Biodegradation
CJ Cheil Jedang works with university researchers to commercialize enzymes for biological plastic recycling
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USCC and BPI Release Joint Guidance on Compostable Products and EPR
USCC and BPI Issue Joint Guidance on Compostable Products and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). Formal strategic partnership will guide extensive collaboration between the two organizations — Will the industry bribe the composters to accept their compostable plastics?
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Sabic and UPM Partner on Ocean Plastic
Sabic Collaborates With Upm Raflatac To Launch The World’s First Label Material Made From Certified Circular Ocean Bound Plastic
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BlackRock Officially Enters the Circular Business
Closed Loop Partners’ Leadership Fund Continues to Buy and Build Circular Economy Businesses that Mitigate Waste and Strengthen Circular Supply Chains — The Circular Movement has never really been about the environment; it’s about business …. as usual. Greed is deeply rooted into human nature …. it’s our achilles’ heel.
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Lanxess and Advent Buy DSM Engineering Materials
LANXESS and Advent International establish a leading global joint venture for high-performance engineering polymers
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Danone and Lanzatech Partner on Carbon Capture for PET
LanzaTech, with the support of Danone, Discovers Method to Produce Sustainable PET Bottles from Captured Carbon
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Earth & Wheat and Treetop Biopak Partner on Compostable Packaging
‘Wonky’ bread subscription service Earth & Wheat has teamed up with Treetop Biopak to switch to compostable packaging.
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Tipa and G Mondini Partner on Compostable Wet Food Container
TIPA Partners with G.Mondini to Produce Home Compostable Wet Food Container
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NatureWorks and CJ Bio Partner on Bioplastics
CJ BIO and NatureWorks Working Towards a Master Collaboration Agreement to Commercialize Novel Biopolymer Solutions
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Tallgrass and ADM Partner on Carbon Capture
Tallgrass to Capture and Sequester CO2 Emissions From ADM Corn Processing Complex in Nebraska
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Circa and Valmet Partner on Biochemicals
Circa And Valmet Partner To Industrialise Biochemicals Production
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Nextleaf and Hempcrete Natural Partner on Hempcrete
Nextleaf Licenses U.S. Patent to Hempcrete Natural
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UK Universities Partner on Bioplastics Biomedical Materials
Biomedical Materials Made from Natural Polymers Produced by Bacteria
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Egypt Goes for Stone Plastics
Egypt signs memorandum of understanding for Okeanos Egypt joint venture
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EMRC and Woodside Partner on Carbon Capture
EMRC and Woodside collaborate on innovative carbon re-use pilot project
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Hubbub and Starbucks Partner on Reusable Schemes
Hubbub and Starbucks launch £1M Bring It Back Fund to boost reuse
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Origin Materials and Mitsubishi Chemical Partner on Carbon Negative Tires
Origin Materials and Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Group Partner to Develop Advanced Carbon-Negative Materials for Tires
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Eastman and NC State University Partner on Compostable Take Out Containers
Design Students Develop Compostable Take-Out Container Prototypes in Project Sponsored by Eastman
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EconCore and Flaxco Partner on Mixing Flax with Thermoplastic
Sustainable lightweight thermoplastic honeycomb panel with flax fibre composites to replace glass and carbon fibre materials – innovation by EconCore & Flaxco (Division of Flipts & Dobbels NV) partnership.
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LG Chem and Kist Partner on Carbon Neutrality Research
LG Chem – KIST Opens Joint Research Lab for Commercializing Carbon Neutrality Technologies
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Danimer and Kemira Partner on Biobased Barrier Coatings
Danimer Scientific and Kemira expand exclusive partnership to commercialize fully biobased barrier coatings
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Relement and Solvay Partner on Bio MPA
Relement contracts Solvay Research & Innovation Centre Lyon to scale-up bio MPA manufacturing
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UBQ and Ambev Partner on Waste Based Packaging
UBQ Materials provides technology for Ambev to integrate sustainable plastic-substitute in Brazilian trade products
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BASF and Henkel Partner on Renewable Raw Materials
BASF and Henkel focus on renewable raw materials in Henkel’s consumer goods products
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Joins CO2 Capture Partnership
Joint public/private sector initiative integrating expertise of 4 partners, targeting CO2 recycling for realization of carbon neutral society
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TerraCycle and Evreka Partner to Combat Fraud Allegations
Partnership signals a new era for innovative waste management
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Sabic and Polivouga Partner on Ocean Plastic Packaging
Sabic, Polivouga And Nueva Pescanova Collaborate In Seafood Packaging Solution Using Certified Circular Pe From Ocean Bound Plastic
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Renewcell and Daiwabo Rayon Partner on Circular Textiles
Renewcell and fiber producer Daiwabo sign Letter of Intent for circular textile fiber collaboration
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Dow and Locus PI Partner on Biosurfactants
Dow Signs Exclusive Agreement with Locus Performance Ingredients to Expand Biosurfactant Offerings in the Global Home Care and Personal Care Markets
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Keurig Dr Pepper and Papacks Partner on Paper Bottle
PAPACKS® launches a partnership with Keurig Dr Pepper for the development of a recyclable and compostable paper bottle made from natural raw materials
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Swiss Pact for Waste Collection
Working together for a Switzerland-wide recycling system: closing cycles for plastic packaging and beverage cartons
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Deakin University to Build Biofactory in Australia
Deakin launches new BioFactory as part of Circular Economy Accelerator-Organics project
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PolyCert and More Partner on CPA Targets
PolyCert Europe and Monitoring Platform MORE: joining forces to achieve the CPA targets
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J&J Green Paper and Cerax Partner on Coatings (FREE)
The company is expected to launch production of its fully compostable and environmentally friendly food packaging products in Q1 of 2022, conforming to EU directive. This is a FREE article
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ABB to Automate NatureWorks Bioplastics Plant
ABB to automate bioplastics plant to help meet the growing global demand for sustainable materials
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Bio-Fed and KBK Partner on Bioplastics in Japan
BIO-FED and KBK sign distribution agreement for Japan
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Sabic and Kraton Partner on Renewable Styrenic Block Copolymers
Sabic Collaborates With Kraton For Certified Renewable Butadiene To Produce Certified Renewable Styrenic Block Copolymers
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Food Giants Launch Flexible Packaging Initiative
Food companies pledge for increased investments in a Circular Economy for flexible plastic packaging
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Amazon and DOE Partner on Plastic Waste Reduction
Together, Amazon and the BOTTLE consortium will focus on reducing plastic pollution through innovation in materials and recycling
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Twelve and LanzaTech Partner to Create Ethanol From CO2
Collaborative process seeks to eliminate the fossil fuel impact of ethanol production
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Summit Carbon Solutions and Continental Resources Partner on Carbon Capture (FREE)
Summit Carbon Solutions Announces Strategic Investment from Continental Resources to Create Largest of its Kind Carbon Capture and Sequestration Project. This is a FREE article.
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Nexeo and ERT Partner on Biocompounds (FREE)
Nexeo Plastics and Earth Renewable Technologies Sign Agreement to Distribute BioCompounds in North America. This is a FREE article
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Nexeo and Stora Enso Partner on Biocomposites (FREE)
Nexeo Plastics and Stora Enso Sign Agreement to Distribute Renewable Wood-fibre Biocomposites in Europe. This is a FREE article
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New French PHA Consortium and Trade Name
A New consortium to industrialise PHA and they’ll give it a new name
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DOE Better Climate Challenge
DOE Announces Pledges from 90+ Organizations to Slash Emissions by 50% Within Decade
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K-Flex Project for Circular Polymers
K-FLEX is leading the WP6 that will focus on the polymer sector
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Tipa and Silbo Partner on Flexible Packaging
SILBO in partnership with TIPA creates innovations in flexible packaging
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Lummus and Synthos Biobutadiene Partnership Update (FREE)
Lummus and Synthos Advance Bio-Butadiene Technology Development to Produce Sustainable Rubber. This is a FREE article.
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PepsiCo and UBQ Partner on Plastic Made From Household Waste
PepsiCo uses innovative plastic alternative that prevents GHG emissions into the atmosphere
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Britvic Partners with Xampla on Material
Britvic announces £1m packaging innovation partnership with University of Cambridge-backed deep tech company Xampla
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LyondellBasell and Greiner Partner on Dolce Gusto Coffe Caps
Greiner Packaging and LyondellBasell offer circular solution for coffee capsules
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Xampla and Croda Partner on Biodegradable Seed Coating
Xampla and Croda partner on microplastic-free, biodegradable seed coatings for the agricultural sector.
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Shinola and Veritiv Join NextWave Plastics
Shinola, Veritiv Among Latest Companies to Scale Use of Ocean-Bound Plastics through NextWave Plastics
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Lanxess and Matrica Partner on Biocide Preservatives
LANXESS and Matrìca team up to produce sustainable preservatives from renewable raw materials
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Tipa, Printpack and Digimarc Partner on Sorting Technology
Printpack, TIPA and Digimarc partner to develop sortation technology for compostable packaging
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Danimer and Hyundai Oilbank Partner on PHA
Danimer Scientific and Hyundai Oilbank Collaborate on Driving Global Growth of PHA and Sustainable Alternatives to Traditional Plastic Products
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Heartland and Ravago Partner on Hemp Plastic Additives
Heartland and Ravago Develop Products to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Plastic
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Anellotech and Trecora Renew their Partnership
Anellotech and Trecora Resources subsidiary South Hampton Resources renew site host and services agreement for process development pilot plant
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Total Corbion and Danimer Partner on Bioplastic
Danimer Scientific and TotalEnergies Corbion supporting sustainable alternatives to traditional plastic
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Quadpack and UAB Research Park Partner on Microplastic Research (FREE)
Innovative collaboration for microplastics research
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Ingenza and Johnson Matthey Partner on Enzymes
Ingenza collaborates with Johnson Matthey for efficient industrial enzyme synthesis
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Marubeni and Mitr Pohl Partner on Biobased
Memorandum of Understanding Regarding the Development of a Bio-based Products and Renewable Energy Business in Thailand




