On Wednesday 1 and Thursday 2 March DPI organised the Polyolefins Review Meeting in Eindhoven. The meeting was a great success with more than 100 people attending the meeting online and over 40 physic...

Jacques Joosten and Jan Stamhuis both held key positions at DPI for a decade and a half, Jacques as Managing Director and Jan as Programme Area Coordinator. They both took their farewell of DPI at the...

We are very happy that Shell has taken two additional participations in DPI. Next to the ongoing participation in the Performance Polymers Programme, Shell is now also a partner in the Polyolefins Pro...

We wish you a happy, healthy and innovative 2023! With the industry behind the steering wheel and the academia as co-pilot of DPI, we will keep working on a better, brighter and more sustainable futu...

In November DPI celebrated its 25th anniversary during the DPI Annual Meeting on 8 and 22 November. The first day was a meeting at the Van der Valk Hotel in Eindhoven and the second day was a live bro...

Recently we started two new projects within the DPI Polyolefins programme. HITT_Feasibility (#858)Ultra-high molar mass and long chain branched polyolefins possess exceptional properties of great ind...

2022 is an important year for DPI as it marks our 25th anniversary. A real milestone that we want to celebrate with you! We invite everyone who is or has been involved in the DPI network to celebrate...

Recently we have started two new projects within the DPI Polyolefins programme. The first one started in March: Multi-scale Analysis and Design of the Pyrolysis of Polyolefins (MADPY). In this project...

The DPI project QLife “Quantum-Chemical Life-Time Optimization of Sustainable Engineering Polymers“ kicked-off. The project will make use of a novel, computational approach to aid the development of n...

The DPI project TRAIL 'Monitoring lifetime of thermoplastic composites by combining analytics and machine learning' had its kick-off meeting earlier this month. The project will focus on combining non...

Last week the DPI project PAREX “Polyamides/Glass fiber recycling by reactive extrusion” kicked-off. The project will focus on strategies to recover the performance of polymer composites after their r...

DPI welcomes the ThermoPlastic composites Research Center (TPRC) (the Netherlands) as a new academic partner in the DPI programme Performance Polymers. TPRC, together with University of Twente, will e...

The management of DPI is shocked about the invasion of the Russian military in Ukraine and the resulting war. In line with the EU sanctions, DPI suspends all formal and institutional partnerships wit...

The DPI projects MEAPP “Mechanism of Electrical Aging Caused by Different Structural Defects in Performance Polymer Materials” and CreepFat “Creep Fatigue Interaction in Performance Polymers at High T...

Last year DPI welcomed seven new academic partners within the Performance Polymers (PP) programme. They received granted PP projects within the PP Call focused on extending lifetime of performance pol...

 

On 4 November, the Circular Plastics Initiative (CPI) released its Roadmap, which it developed in collaboration with experts from industry and academia. The timing of the release is no accident, comin...

Join us for an inspirational online Annual Meeting on Wednesday 17 November at 13.30 hrs CET. The live-streamed programme includes a keynote presentation by ESA astronaut André Kuipers and round tabl...

Concerted action to tackle plastic waste and ensure its recycling The Circular Plastics Initiative aims to make plastics fully circular. To achieve this, it brings together organisations from every p...

On Tuesday 27 October DPI organised the first hybrid DPI Annual Meeting, with “Inspiring Polymers” as central theme. More than 130 participants, the majority online, attended the meeting. Jacques Joo...

The National Test Centre Circular Plastics has state-of-the-art technology and facilities for sorting and separating plastic waste streams. With testing and research on an industrial scale, it contrib...

Prof. Vincenzo Busico will hand over his duties as Scientific Chair of the Polyolefins Programme to Prof. Bernhard Rieger. Prof. Busico acted as Scientific Chair of the area for more than fifteen year...

Are producers responsible for the recycling of plastic packaging? This was the subject of the fifth online panel discussion held on 17 September 2020 as part of ISPT’s Industrie in Gesprek series. Han...

On Monday 24 August, Hanne van der Kooij will defend her thesis ‘Let there be Light – Quantitative Imaging of Nanoscale Dynamics in Polymer Materials’ at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. The re...

Imperial College London published the paper Examining Material Evidence The Carbon Fingerprint at the beginning of this month. The authors compare plastic to other materials used in packaging. Execut...

Within the DPI programme we currently have 36 pre-competitive research projects. They are divided in three Programme Areas; Polyolefins (17 projects), Performance Polymers (14 projects) and Polymers f...

DPI, the international polymer research platform, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ernst Jan van Klinken as its Managing Director as of February 1, 2020. Van Klinken will succeed Jacques Joos...

Two more companies have joined forces with DPI: the Saudi Aramco Technologies Company (Aramco Tech) and the Chinese advanced materials company Kingfa. These new partnerships bring DPI’s industrial par...

As a leading international collaboration platform for industry-driven polymer research, DPI has always worked with academic partners all over the world. One of the hallmarks of DPI’s approach is the i...

This year’s Annual Meeting centred around the farewell of outgoing Managing Director Jacques Joosten. Although the meeting marked his official farewell, Jacques will continue to hold the office until ...

The importance of plastics in our society cannot be emphasised enough: packaging and transport of fresh food is just one example of an area in which plastics play a crucial role. But plastics are losi...

DPI’s Annual Meeting 2019 will be held in Eindhoven (Netherlands) on Tuesday 12 November. This year’s Annual Meeting will mark a changeover in DPI’s top management. A key programme item is therefore ...

Plastics play an important role in our economy and our society in general. However, the treatment of plastic waste still has many flaws. Most of the material still ends up being incinerated, landfille...

DPI, the collaboration platform for industry-driven research in the field of polymers, is pleased to announce the online publication of the fourth and final instalment of The Plastics Revolution: How ...