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Textile recycling: an opportunity for innovative chemistry

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.
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Turning captured carbon into essential chemical building blocks

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.
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Biobased innovation: making circular polymers from sugar

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.
Marko Kolari

Growing innovation at Kemira

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.
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The beauty of biopolymers, in short

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.
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