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daily upated news at www.bioplasticsmagazine.com News Avantium opened plant-based MEG demonstration plant Avantium inaugurated on November 7 th its plantbased MEG demonstration factory in Chemie Park Delfzijl, the Netherlands, bringing industry yet another solution to reduce the reliance on fossil resources. Avantium also said it had named its innovative technology to produce plant-based MEG ’Ray Technology - A Bright Step to The Future’. The opening celebrated a significant milestone in commercializing the production of plant-based MEG (mono-ethylene glycol), a vital ingredient in the production of polyesters widely used in textiles and packaging. Today, 99 % of MEG is produced from fossil resources representing a value of approximately €23 billion. This market is expected to rapidly grow in the coming decades, providing a great opportunity for the introduction of plantbased MEG as part of the transition to a more renewable world. In addition to its sustainability advantages, the production of plant-based MEG with Ray Technology is cost competitive to fossilbased MEG. The Ray Technology demonstration plant with an industrially relevant capacity of 10 tonnes annually will also produce plant-based MPG (mono-propylene glycol) which is used in a diverse set of industries such as cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, food flavouring, and deicing. The end-to-end plant-based Ray Technology demonstration plant will cover all process steps in converting industrial sugars to glycols, allowing for the production of MEG and MPG samples that are representative of the final product from subsequent commercial-scale plants. MT www.avantium.com New collaboration between nova-Institute and BT2i As of November 2019, BT2i (Rueil-Malmaison, France) and nova-Institute (Hürth, Germany) have signed a long-term agreement to accelerate and enlarge the success of a brand new TWatch Program dedicated to Greener Plastics. TWatch Programs have been offered successfully for many years by technology intelligence and marketing company BT2i on a diverse range of topics. In light of the many challenges faced today by the plastics and chemicals industry, the technology scouting will support companies on their way to a more sustainable path of making and using plastics. The multi-client TWatch Program provides its customers with the latest information on innovation and market developments in the plastic sector. Specifically included topics are bioplastics, biocomposites, natural fibres, non-toxic plastics and substitution of chemicals, recycled plastics, “plastic-free” materials, case studies by sectors (packaging, transport …), new regulations and trends as well as market data. Benefits are a database of information which is fed yearround and a monthly newsletter highlighting the most important innovations. Webinars, individual consultant sessions and an annual event are included in the package as well. A much needed support system for companies looking into greener plastic solutions. “There are so many important questions about technologies, politics and markets that many companies need to have answered in order to design their future strategies,” said Michael Carus, managing director of nova-Institute. He continued: “Often, getting a substantiated answer to all of them is too expensive for any single company. In a multi-client study, a lot more can be offered – if it is implemented with a lot of experience and professionalism. And that's why we cooperate with BT2i!” nova-Institute will promote the Greener Plastics TWatch Program in Germany and other German speaking countries, in the Netherlands and Nordic Countries. For interested companies a webinar will will be offered on 16 January 2020, 15:00. MT www.nova-institute.eu/services/twatch Picks & clicks Most frequently clicked news Here’s a look at our most popular online content of the past two months. The story that got the most clicks from the visitors to bioplasticsmagazine.com was: tinyurl.com/news-20191114 Greenpeace publishes inaccurate, misleading information on bioplastics (14 November 2019) It would behove a well-respected and globally operating organisation like Greenpeace to do its homework when publishing reports on important issues. The false assertions and half-baked facts presented here harm Greenpeace's credibility and cast doubt on the organisation's 'green' credentials. This is The Plant Based Products Council's response to the report published by Greenpeace. bioplastics MAGAZINE [06/19] Vol. 14 5
