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Avantium opens branch office in Japan to reinforce high-value market for PEF
AMSTERDAM, 13 November 2019, 08:30 CET – Avantium Renewable Polymers confirms its strategy to turn to high-value applications for PEF (polyethylene furanoate) by establishing an Avantium branch office in Japan. This branch office will operate under the name Avantium...
Avantium nominates Edwin Moses as Chairman of its Supervisory Board
AMSTERDAM, 8 November 2019, 07:00 CET – 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....
Avantium advances its plant-based MEG technology with the opening of its demonstration plant
AMSTERDAM, 7 November 2019, 07:00 CET – Avantium today inaugurates its plant-based MEG(mono-ethylene glycol) demonstration factory in Chemie Park Delfzijl, the Netherlands, bringingindustry yet another solution to reduce the reliance on fossil resources. The...
Avantium partners with R&F Chemical to market high-value PEF applications in Korea
AMSTERDAM, 31 October 2019, 08:30 CET – Avantium Renewable Polymers and R&F Chemical announce their marketing and development partnership for high-value markets for PEF in electronics and smart packaging in Korea. This partnership is a further validation of...
Avantium joins the Paper Bottle Project
AMSTERDAM, 11 October 2019, 07:00 CET – The Paper Bottle Company (Paboco®) - a joint venture between paper packaging material developer BillerudKorsnäs and bottle manufacturing specialist ALPLA - today announces at the Paboco Pioneer Community Event in the Carlsberg...
Confusion about biopolymer and biodegradation – Column G.J.M. Gruter in Chem Today 2019 37 (4) 54-55
Consumers are confused. The general public assumes that bio-based polymers are biodegradable and because biodegradability is considered a positive attribute, this confusion is often cherished rather than clarified. In his column in Chemistry Today, Chief Technology...
Klaas Jan Schouten appointed Research Assistant Professor Electrocatalysis and Applied Electrochemistry
AMSTERDAM, 18 September 2019, 17:30 CET – Dr. Klaas Jan Schouten, program leader for Avantium’s front running electrochemistry program Volta, has been appointed Research Assistant Professor Electrocatalysis and Applied Electrochemistry at the Faculty of Science of the...
Avantium awarded €6 million EU grant to accelerate its technologies
AMSTERDAM, 26 August 2019, 07:00 CET – 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. SPIRE, part of Horizon2020, is the European...
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