Sustainable Polymer Technologies (SPOT) Team

On Friday 13th of May Dr Viviana Polizzi has presented main insight of VITO’s work in the Lignicoat project in a live webinar initiated by Veltha.

Making our houses and its building materials like insulation boards more sustainable is what we aim for!

We believe that chemical recycling, and even more upcycling of plastics allows for better circular loop closing in the future.

CYCLOPS stands for Chemical recYCLing of Oxygenated Polymer materialS. 

Recently, Flemish Prime Minister Jan Jambon paid a working visit to Biorizon co-initiator VITO.

The kick off meeting of the Life project VIABLE took place on November 29th, 2021 in an online format with the 7 consortium partners.

It was supposed to be a physical meeting place, but the 8th Biorizon Annual Event in Rotterdam turned out differently than expected.

Marlies Thys presented a poster covering her recent publication at the Brightlands Polymer Days 2021

Within the Flemish government’s Moonshot initiative, which supports industries in reducing their CO2 emissions, the Later Stage Innovation project

Organized in the framework of team building.

Synthetic resins are very important intermediate raw materials in industry, from the manufacture of coatings and composite materials to insulating foam and hard plastics. Today, resins are still produced mainly from petroleum derivatives.