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

18/07/2025

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

17/07/2025

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

16/07/2025

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

Workshop with Volvo Car Gent

16/07/2025

Looking for a green alternative for epoxy flooring

Internship Collaboration with Fundación Novia Salcedo

20/06/2025

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

12/06/2025

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

10/06/2025

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

Depolymerized Lignin as Bio-epoxy Resin Precursor

10/06/2025

LignoValue product as BPA alternative

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.