Dutch R&D specialist Senbis will be investing €5.5 million through its new subsidiary SPIC Facilities in a testing facility for the development of sustainable plastics, which includes bioplastics and recyclable plastics. “With SPIC Facilities we provide the missing link for (bio)polymer development in the Chemport Europe ecosystem. The investments include new reactors for polycondensation, for example for developing (bio)polyesters and polyamides, a fully equipped compounder, a new line for the production of technical mono-filaments and an expansion of analytical capabilities.
“It is a welcome addition to our current facilities that focus on technical yarns. The new line now enable us to develop textile fibres from e.g. recycled polymers or biopolymers,” Nijhoving said. “Up until now, we were not able to answer questions in this field properly because we did not have the right equipment, even though we had all the relevant knowledge and analytical capabilities.” With the new extruders and spinning machines, SPIC Facilities will furthermore be able to manufacture bicomponent yarns.
Elsewhere, Senbis said that SPIC Emmen is devoting a lot of its efforts to the mechanical and chemical recycling of polyester. For example, the companies Morssinkhof and Cumapol are working on the chemical recycling of PET as part of the CuRe project.
Source: Biomarket Insights
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