The packaging industry is challenged with the transition from traditional single-use plastics to renewable alternatives. With the help of chemistry, molded fiber packaging offers solutions that meet desired properties like water-repellency, durability, recyclability, and safety.
Today’s fashion industry is faced with a great challenge – textile waste. Fast fashion and accelerated trend cycles have led to mounting clothing waste and few solutions to solve it at scale. Industry innovators like the Finnish clothing brand Pure Waste are eager to help solve this problem by offering clothing made from recycled fibers. A new type of recycling based on chemistry could help make this happen.
While carbon capture and storage has been around for several decades, the utilization of captured carbon is a relatively new and growing field. As Kemira ventures into new territory with innovations for monomers made with renewable carbon, we took the opportunity to dig into carbon capture and utilization in more detail with Michael Carus, a leader from the Nova Institute and Renewable Carbon Initiative.
Christian Lenges is an innovation expert at International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), one of Kemira’s collaboration partners in the quest to develop fully biobased polymers that outperform traditional fossil-based derived products. We caught up with Christian to learn more about the challenges and opportunities of making polymers from sugar instead of fossil-based raw materials.
In the first episode of our podcast series, Chemistry with a purpose, we spoke to Matthias Staub, Development Director of Water at Veolia, a leader in municipal wastewater treatment. The company is currently testing Kemira's new Vivimag® phosphorus recovery technology, which has promising implications for the circular economy.
Kemira’s new research center in Shanghai, China is accelerating innovation in Asia - a sign of our company’s commitment to employees, customers and sustainable chemistry that enables more renewable, biodegradable and recyclable products.
Since joining Kemira in 2004, Dr. Marko Kolari has shown sustained high technical performance, strong project and commercial delivery and is a recognized expert not only within Kemira but also with our customers globally. He has held a leading scientist role within the product line for 15 years and been a people manager for 8 years.
At Kemira, we have aligned our business and research strategy with specific United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. As part of this commitment, we are creating more renewable, biodegradable and recyclable products based on biopolymers.
The environmental company Ragn-Sells and the chemical company Kemira are starting a collaboration to recycle phosphorus from sewage sludge at Kemira's industrial site in Helsingborg, Sweden.
Our current network has more than 50 universities, research institutes and companies including special collaborations with our customers.
