Sustainable Polymer Technologies (SPOT) Team

Our Mission

We stand for design and development of Sustainable POlymer Technologies – Renewable and/or Recyclable

Together with academia and industry, we fight for a greener future where performance of sustainable materials exceeds current standards and limitations.

The team 2025

News

New Horizon Europe project CIRCULAR-C Kicked off: Novel biobased formulations for CIRCULAR Construction materials

The CIRCULAR-C project will focus on developing a new generation of circular, sustainable, and biobased adhesives, coatings, and functionalized fibres. (Novel biobased formulations for CIRCULAR Construction materials)

From Forest to Future: Karolien Vanbroekhoven and Kelly Servaes at Love Tomorrow Summit

On July 24th, Karolien Vanbroekhoven and Kelly Servaes, pioneers at VITO, will take the stage at the Love Tomorrow Summit – an inspiring one-day gathering where future-minded thinkers, changemakers, and creatives come together on the magical groun

SPOT @ FRPM25

Advancing biobased fire safety at the 20th European Meeting on Fire Retardant Polymeric Materials (FRPM25)

 

Workshop with Volvo Car Gent

Looking for a green alternative for epoxy flooring

 

Internship Collaboration with Fundación Novia Salcedo

Nurturing Talent and Shaping the Future: A Successful Collaboration with Fundación Novia Salcedo

 

Integrative approach towards the valorization and chemical recycling of polymers in textiles

Textile waste accounts for nearly 7.5 million tons per year in Europe, of which 30 – 35 % are collected and less than 1 % is recycled into new products.

WWSC International Conference 2025

Innovative lignin-based technologies to improve material circularity on June 17th in Stockholm

Depolymerized Lignin as Bio-epoxy Resin Precursor

LignoValue product as BPA alternative 

Pilot Production of Bioaromatics at VITO

First large scale delivery of depolymerized lignin

Wind turbine blade recycling

How to solve some technical questions to close the material loop?

Advancing Circular Chemistry

VITO’s Expertise in Lignin Depolymerization Highlighted in Chem

Circular innovations and how to protect them

Intellectual property as the technology valorization tool "par excellence" for circular innovations.