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A new Bioeconomy Investment Group is being set up to help Europe’s sustainable industries secure the funding they need to grow. The group aims to reduce financial risks for investors, create clear funding standards, and bring together public and private money. Despite already supporting  17 million jobs  and generating up to  €2.7 trillion  in economic value, many innovative bio-based projects struggle to secure financing at critical stages, such as moving from small-scale testing to full industrial production. This funding gap risks holding back Europe’s ability to turn scientific breakthroughs in biotechnology and sustainable materials into real-world industries.   To fix this, the European Commission and the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) have brought together European banks, national promotional institutions, venture capital funds and institutional investors to create the  Bioeconomy Investment Deployment Group (BIDG).   ...

At #Celanese , our #POM ECO portfolio is designed to give customers a broad range of options - so they can choose the pathway that best fits both their sustainability and manufacturing efficiency goals and priorities, without compromising performance. Sustainability isn’t one solution. It’s a portfolio. 🌱 Bio content (ECO-B) - Derived from non-fossil, renewable plant or organic feedstocks using a mass balance approach 🔄 Carbon capture based POM (ECO-C) - Produced using captured CO₂ emissions converted into methanol, enabling our lowest product carbon footprint to date These are drop-in solutions, supported by ISCC-certified pathways, transparent footprint data, and proven performance across #Hostaform® and #Celcon®POM to deliver sustainability value in demanding engineering applications. This is an important topic, so you'll want to know as much as possible to support your material selection decisions. Here some background info: Our recent news release highlights our Carbon Fo...

BASF and its European distribution organization, #BTCEurope , will present their broad portfolio for the packaging industry at the international trade fair interpack, hall 10, booth A 44. The world’s leading trade fair for packaging as well as packaging materials and processing technology will take place in Düsseldorf, Germany from May 7 to 13, 2026. The focus of BASF’s booth will be on material solutions, product innovations and recycling‑friendly systems for the packaging industry. BASF will showcase applications and concepts in the following areas: #Polyamide packaging with  #Ultramid®Ccycled® for #foodpackaging and other sensitive applications, as well as the newest product innovation  #Ultramid®H , the first thermoplastic polyamide with high water permeability. Adhesives that support packaging recycling within existing infrastructures and processes: water‑based  #Epotal® laminating adhesives for easy separation of materials in PET‑based multilayer packaging and f...

𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲'𝐬 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐋𝐄𝐃𝐆𝐄 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧? Surface tension is one of the most fundamental properties governing the behavior of liquids and plays a critical role in many industrial formulations. For formulators working in coatings, inks, adhesives, detergents, and other complex chemical systems, surface tension strongly influences how a liquid spreads, wets a surface, disperses particles, or interacts with different phases. Understanding the origin of surface tension is therefore essential for interpreting many phenomena observed during formulation and application. At the molecular level, surface tension arises from intermolecular forces acting between molecules within a liquid. Inside the bulk phase, each molecule is surrounded by neighboring molecules in all directions. Because of this, the attractive intermolecular forces acting on a molecule are essentially balanced. In con...