AMES, Iowa – Researchers will test a new way of producing biobased chemicals that’s backed by 10 years of working in laboratories, partnering with industries and launching startups. The researchers’ ...

AMES, Iowa – Two companies launched by discoveries at an engineering research center based at Iowa State University have won business development grants to help them commercialize their biorenewable ...

Chemicals company SABIC recently partnered with frozen potato product producer Lamb Weston and packaging developer Opackgroup to create low-weight sustainable packaging bags made with a thin ...

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (11/23/2021) — A team of researchers from the U.S. National Science Foundation Center for Sustainable Polymers based at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have developed a ...

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Polymers are a key material of choice, albeit not all plastic businesses are as attractive as they once were. But we are again living in difficult economic times, and the paradigm is once again ...