Entries by Thomas Gabrielczyk

Henkel buys FDCA from Avantium NV

Bioplastics specialist Avantium N.V. has inked a 5-year agreement to supply Henkel with plant sugar based furandicarboxylic acid , a building block of PEF bioplastics.

Ultra-low freezers: Stability of cancer biomarkers

Maintaining the integrity of tumour biomarkers during processing and storage is of great importance for the accurate diagnosis and prognosis of many diseases, including cancers. To safely store samples for research or clinical uses, freezing procedures are used to arrest the ­degradation of biomarkers. However, the stability of these molecules depends upon long-term ­storage conditions.

It’s on: the race for sustainable packaging

A decade ago, the news about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch went viral. Since then, a multitude of startups proliferated on a mission to create ecological alternatives to the ubiquitous fossil-based plastics. At ECBF, we are closely monitoring the emerging materials for packaging applications, by far the main use case of plastics.