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Sustainably produced methanol from the Carbon2Chem® joint project is entering industrial application

Press release from 31.07.2025

In the Carbon2Chem® joint project, CO2 from industrial exhaust gases is converted into sustainable methanol with the help of hydrogen. This methanol is now being used in the "Power2Polymers" project: It is first processed into paraformaldehyde and then into novel polyols, which in turn form the basis for adhesives, coating materials, lubricants and sealants.

to the press release on the project "Power2Polymers"

Keeping plastics in the cycle with the Fraunhofer IVV's solvent-based recycling process

Press release from 28.07.2025

The Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV will be demonstrating how plastics can be successfully recovered from complex plastic mixtures at the K trade fair for plastics and rubber from October 8-15 in Düsseldorf. With the solvent-based recycling process developed at the Fraunhofer IVV, a wide variety of plastics from packaging, but also from the automotive, electronics, construction and textile sectors, can be recycled and processed into high-purity plastic recyclates. In this way, waste fractions that cannot be recycled using conventional recycling processes according to the state of the art become available for a circular economy with the solvent-based process. The Fraunhofer IVV will be exhibiting at the stand of the Fraunhofer Cluster Circular Plastics Economy CCPE in hall 7.0, stand 70SC05 under the motto "Bridge the Gap to Circularity".

to the press release on the recycling process at the K trade fair