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

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.

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!