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 2023

News

Pilot Production of Bioaromatics at VITO

15/05/2025

First large scale delivery of depolymerized lignin

Wind turbine blade recycling

15/05/2025

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

Advancing Circular Chemistry

08/05/2025

VITO’s Expertise in Lignin Depolymerization Highlighted in Chem

Circular innovations and how to protect them

07/05/2025

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

Launch of the JTF Project C-Recycle: Innovation and Education in Chemical Recycling

08/11/2024

Launch of the JTF Project C-Recycle: Innovation and Education in Chemical Recycling

Biobased building blocks in North Brabant

29/05/2024

From grass to glue, from sugar beet pulp to paint or from wood chips to insulation foam!

Dr. Elias Feghali spends 2 months at NREL

18/03/2024

Dr. Elias Feghali has spent 2 months at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden Colorado in the team of Dr.

LigninPlus project granted

21/12/2023

With the LigninPlus project VITO is able to expand its pilot infrastructure for processing lignin to aromatics. This allows us to speed up the process from lab to pilot!

10th anniversary of Biorizon – 30/11/2023

08/12/2023

Time to look back on a successful 10th anniversary of Biorizon, the shared research center we started together with TNO at the time, which focuses on scaling up the production of bio-aromatics.

PhD Marlies Thys – Reversible Adhesives – 27/10/2023

08/12/2023

Marlies Thys successfully defended her VITO/VUB PhD and started working as a researcher on material science in VITO.

Two scientific cover publications in one month by VITO researchers

07/09/2023

Plastics recycling – the riddle! Session with Prof. Dr. Rudy Koopmans

19/02/2023

On the 15th of February 2023, SPOT team was excited to have a full morning session with Prof Dr Rudy Koopmans, who gave us inspiration and useful insights on the global challenge of plastics recycling from an industrial perspective!