Avantium N.V., a renewable chemistry company (Amsterdam) and SCG Chemicals Public Company Limited (Thailand) petrochemical innovations company will collaborate on the further development of ​ CO2-based polymers with the aim of bringing this to pilot scale. The partnership will build on Avantium’s innovative Volta Technology platform, which uses electrochemistry to convert CO2 to high-value products and chemical building blocks such as glycolic acid. By combining glycolic acid with lactic acid, Avantium can produce polylactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA), a carbon-negative polyester with an excellent barrier against oxygen and moisture and good mechanical properties. In addition, PLGA is recyclable, home compostable and marine degradable. Avantium and SCGC have been working together on PLGA since early 2023. Avantium has produced samples of different PLGAs, which were then evaluated at SCGC’s Norner AS facility. This led to the decision to establish a Joint Development Agreement, under which the companies intend to further evaluate PLGA in order to subsequently scale up production of glycolic acid monomer and PLGA polyester in the next two years to a pilot plant with an indicative capacity of 10 tonnes per annum. ​ #circulareconomynews​ #circulareconomy​ #recycling​ #waste #polymers