Tag: Avantium
-
How many oil, chemical and plastic CEOs died in a plane crash?
This article is about the oil, chemical and plastic companies CEOs and execs who died in a plane crash.
Written by
·
-
Most Stupid Bioplastic Application Ever
The price goes to PLIXXENT (German Chemical Company).
Written by
·
-
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.
Written by
·
-
Avantium plant-based polymer granted PET stream compatibility
What’s the point of buying PEF if it ends up in the PET recycling stream?
Written by
·
-
RecyClass Validates Avantium’s PET/PEF Bottle as Fully Recyclable in PET Stream (FREE)
Download
Written by
·
-
Opening Avantium plant looked like an absurd charade (FREE)
Avantium’s instant karma. This is a FREE article
Written by
·
-
Avantium continues to show strong progress in executing the commercialisation strategies for its proprietary technologies (FREE)
Avantium N.V. (Euronext Amsterdam and Brussels: AVTX), a leading technology company in renewable chemistry, today reports its 2023 half year results. This is a FREE article
Written by
·
-
Avantium awarded €0.76 million EU funding for its participation in the Rebiolution project (FREE)
Avantium N.V., a leading technology provider in renewable chemistry, announces that it has been awarded a €0.76 million grant by the EU Horizon Europe programme for its participation in the research and development programme Rebiolution. This is a FREE article
Written by
·
-
PEF Bottles Have Lower Carbon Footprint than PET Bottles Says LCA
A new bio-based polymer could be good news for the environment. A recent assessment of its industrial production and use in bottles points to potentially major reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions — You want to replace billions of PET bottles with PEF bottles? Good luck with that!
Written by
·
-
Avantium Organises a Dutch Reception for its FDCA Plant (FREE)
Avantium celebrates the First Piling Ceremony for its FDCA Flagship Plant.
Written by
·
-
Avantium Plant MEG LCA (FREE)
Avantium’s plantMEG™ cuts carbon footprint by up to 83% over fossil-based MEG. This is a FREE article.
Written by
·
-
PEF Not So Sustainable Says NGO
Wonder Plastic PEF Will Not Yet Help Solve The Plastic Soup says Plastic Soup Foundation
Written by
·
-
Avantium Produces Polyesters with PlantMEG Technology (FREE)
Is Avantium distracting the audience or itself? This is a FREE article
Written by
·
-
Interview with Avantium CTO
Subscribe to BioplasticsNews.com to access premium content for a year.
Written by
·
-
Avantium Plans to Build New PEF Plant
Worley has been awarded a FEED (front-end engineering design) to develop Avantium’s flagship plant that will support the transition to a bio-based economy for plastics. The plant will produce 100% plant-based FDCA (furandicarboxylic acid) – a key building block for many chemicals and plastics.
Written by
·
-
Avantium Shareholders Approve Resolutions
Avantium N.V, a leading technology company in renewable chemistry, announces that at today’s Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM).
Written by
·
-
Shareholders Meetings During The Corona
Let’s look at how Avantium is organising its Annual General Meeting in times of Corona.
Written by
·
-
Avantium Receives Grant from NL
Avantium awarded funding to produce lignin for the development of bio-based asphalt.
Written by
·
-
Avantium Enters Euronext Amsterdam SmallCap Index
Avantium announces that it has been promoted to the Euronext Amsterdam SmallCap Index (AScX), following the quarterly review by Euronext.
Written by
·
-
Avantium CEO On Bioplastics in the Drinks Industry
Tom van Aken, CEO of Avantium, discusses the challenges and benefits of introducing plant-based plastics to the drinks industry.
Written by
·
-
Avantium Sells Bioaromatics Patent Portfolio to TNO
Avantium has sold its bioaromatics patent portfolio to The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, TNO.
Written by
·
-
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.
Written by
·
-
Avantium Appoints New CFO
Avantium announced the appointment of Bart Welten as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Written by
·
-
Avantium Appoints New Chairman of Supervisory Board
Avantium announced that Mr. Edwin Moses has been appointed as Chairman of its Supervisory Board.
Written by
·
-
Avantium Ray Technology Video
“Sugar is the new oil”. Watch this short clip featuring Avantium CEO Tom van Aken, RNC Managing Director Zanna McFerson, and CEO of Suiker Unie Paul Mesters who talk about the importance of RAY across the entire value chain from feedstock to market applications.
Written by
·
-
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.
Written by
·
-
Avantium Opens Office in Japan
Avantium Renewable Polymers confirms its strategy to turn to high-value applications for PEF (polyethylene furanoate) by establishing an Avantium branch office in Japan.
Written by
·
-
Avantium Nominates Edwin Moses as Chairman of its Supervisory Board
Avantium announces the nomination of Dr. Edwin Moses for appointment to its Supervisory Board. The nomination will be submitted to the Avantium Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders (EGM), scheduled for 20 December 2019. The convocation, agenda and explanatory notes for the EGM along with Edwin Moses’ resume will be published on the Avantium corporate website.
Written by
·
-
Avantium Ray Technology To Disrupt Mono-Ethylene Glycol Market
Ray TechnologyTM is Avantium’s plants-to-glycols technology producing plant-based mono-ethylene glycol (MEG), a fossil-free core component for everyday products such as textiles or plastic materials like PET (polyethylene terephthalate) and PEF (polyethylene furanoate) (produced by Avantium’s YXY® Technology), making it a key ingredient of products such as plastic bottles and clothing.
Written by
·
-
Avantium Set to Become World Leader in Plant-Based MEG
Avantium advances its plant-based MEG technology with the opening of its demonstration plant.
Written by
·
-
A Look At Leading Bioplastics Companies
Biodegradable plastics is a popular new trend that means we can avoid plastics that don’t break down and hence damage the environment. The biodegradable plastics market is projected to grow from USD 3.02 billion in 2018 to USD 6.12 billion by 2023, at a CAGR of 15.1%. Some leading biodegradable plastic companies to consider.
Written by
·
-
Avantium Provides Inner Layer of Paper Bottle
A thin layer of Avantium’s PEF (polyethylene furanoate) will provide the Paper Bottle with the high barrier properties (the ability to withstand gas permeability through the bottle) needed for beverages such as beer and carbonated soft drinks.
Written by
·
-
Paper Bottle Company Created, Coke and l’Oreal Join
In April 2019, ALPLA and BillerudKorsnäs, a leading Swedish provider of paper packaging materials and solutions, announced that they were starting a joint venture for the development of a paper bottle. This joint venture is now an established company by the name of Paboco
Written by
·
-
Avantium Program Leader Goes Back to School
Klaas Jan Schouten appointed Research Assistant Professor Electrocatalysis and Applied Electrochemistry.
Written by
·
-
Avantium Awarded €6 Million EU Grant
Avantium N.V. announces that it has been awarded €6 million as part of a SPIRE grant to accelerate its Dawn and Mekong technologies in addition to utilizing its expertise in Catalysis.
Written by
·
-
The Last Episode of Synvina
What happened during the last meeting between Avantium and BASF? Here are the videos.
Written by
·
-
Avantium Awarded Funding for VEHICLE
Avantium N.V. announces that it has been awarded €1.3 million for its Dawn and Mekong Technologies from the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program.
Written by
·
-
Synvina Becomes Avantium Renewable Polymers
The Name Change has not Been Made Official Yet, but We Thought You May Want to Have a Look at the Following…
Written by
·
-
Avantium Moving Forward on Bio-based Plastics Plant
Dutch biotechnology company Avantium NV has unveiled a series of plans to commercialize its YXY technology to produce 100 percent renewable and fully recyclable polyethylene furanoate (PEF) polymers.
Written by
·
-
Avantium Will Build Demonstration Plant for Third Technology Program
Avantium has decided to locate the new demonstration plant for its Mekong technology in Chemie Park Delfzijl, the Netherlands.
Written by
·
-
The Bioplastic Flop of the Year: Synvina
BASF announced officially that they will leave Avantium and exit the Synvina joint venture by 15 January 2019.
Written by
·
-
Will BASF leave the Synvina Joint Venture?
BASF and Avantium are fighting over the Synvina project. Will this lead to a divorce? Will this become the biggest flop in bioplastics history?
Written by
·
-
From Lignocellulose to PEF by Ed de Jong
Leading research group in the Netherlands with 3 main focuses: furan platform, isohexide platform and sugar biotechnology platform.
Written by
·
-
The Brain Behind Avantium’s YXY Technology
Every day, hundreds of millions of plastic bottles are sold around the world, imposing a heavy burden on the environment. Aside from post-consumer plastic waste issues, these bottles rely on fossil-fuel-derived chemicals, require a significant amount of energy for production and leave behind a considerable CO2 footprint.
Written by
·
-
Avantium completes IPO and heads for first commercial plant to produce FDCA
In the Netherlands, Avantium completed its highly-anticipated initial public offering, raising $109.5M (€103M) via the sale of 9,401,793 shares at $11.70 (€11) per share, giving the company a market capitalization of $294M (€277M). Trading will begin on March 15th 2017 on Euronext Amsterdam and Euronext Brussels under the symbol AVTX.
Written by
·
-
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.
Written by
·
-
FDCA Boosted by BASF and Avantium – The JV Project
During the World Bio-market Conference in Amsterdam, corridors and networking sessions were buzzing with the big announcement by BASF and Avantium confirming that they have signed a letter of intent and entered into exclusive negotiations to establish a joint venture for the production and marketing of furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) which is made from plant-based industrial sugars.
Written by
·
-
Avantium Partners with Tereos
For years, major global agribusiness companies have been partnering with chemical companies strategically engaged into changing their business models to sustainable plant based chemistry.
Written by
·
-
Bio-Based Companies Rank in Global Cleantech 100
The 2014 Global Cleantech 100 companies were announced on October 6, 2014 at the Global Cleantech 100 Gala in Washington, D.C .
Written by
·
-
PEF and Avantium Towards Replacement of PET
A big step forward for PEF and Avantium towards the replacement of petroleum based polyethylene terephtalate (PET): USD 50 Mn investments bring Avantium closer to completion of Polyethylene Furanoate (PEF) commercial scale plant.
Written by
·
-
Avantium Wins European Cleantech Company Award
Avantium (The Netherlands) among the leading technology companies known for its collaborations with iconic market players such as The Coca-Cola Company and Danone, was named by Cleantech Group (CTG), as European Cleantech Company of the Decade.
Written by
·
-
Bottles from Furfural
Bioplastics PEF (polyethylene furanoate) is an alternative to PET and bio-PET for soft drink bottles, offering enhanced functionalities.
Written by
·
