Biobased polymers and elastomers derived from terpene monomers represent an emerging frontier in sustainable materials science. Terpenes, abundant natural hydrocarbons extracted from plant sources, ...

Exel has entered into a new purchasing agreement with global resin specialist Polynt to purchase hundreds of tonnes of its bio-based unsaturated polyester resin (UPR). The collaboration represents ...

In a recent paper in Nature Communications, researchers at the Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group led by Prof. Gert-Jan Gruter take an important step towards the production of fully biobased, ...

Amsterdam researchers have made a major leap forward in the production of biobased polyesters. The breakthrough could ultimately pave the way for commercial bioplastics. Bioplastics offer a promising ...

(Amsterdam) has started construction of a facility in the Netherlands at Geleen that will utilize its proprietary catalytic process to convert carbohydrates into furanic building blocks for use in ...

Zeon Corp. (Tokyo) and Visolis Inc. (Heyward, Calif.) have signed a binding term sheet to further strengthen their collaboration for commercializing ...

Researchers take an important step towards the production of fully biobased, rigid polyesters. They present a simple, yet innovative, synthesis strategy to overcome the inherently low reactivity of ...