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...

Connect screen-to-screen As we are not sure if by November 2021 circumstances regarding COVID-19 and associated travel restrictions will allow us to meet our international attendees in a personal fac...

Ben jij de Financieel Administratief Medewerker (24 uur/week) die wij zoeken? Binnen de afdeling finance run jij de crediteuren- en debiteuren administratie. Daarnaast verricht je ook werkzaamheden d...

We are looking for a firm and inspiring candidate to take up the position of Senior Project Manager for the circular plastics project InReP - An Integrated Approach towards Recycling of Plastics.

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...

We wish you a happy, healthy and innovative 2021!  DPI’s strength remains network-based collaboration. As a member of the worldwide DPI network, you are a vital part of that strength! In light of t...

A series of expert events on closing the loop in single-use plasticsFebruary 4 | February 25 | March 18 | April 8 | April 29 | May 20Registration opens mid December Connecting the circular plastic co...

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...

DPI has an ambition for growth and our Business Development department plays an important role in the further initiation of new research programmes as well as the acquisition of new partners. In this ...

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...

We are pleased to announce that DPI's Annual Meeting 2020 will be held in Eindhoven (Netherlands) as well as online on the afternoon of Tuesday 27 October. The structure and programme have been adapte...

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...

We are looking for an inspirational and decisive leader to take up the position of Managing Director. Your challenge will be to position DPI nationally and internationally as a unique collaboration p...

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

We are looking for an inspirational and decisive leader to take up the position of Managing Director. Your challenge will be to position DPI nationally and internationally as a unique collaboration p...

This year, DPI’s Annual Meeting was centred around the theme of a Circular Economy. Around 175 people from across the world attended the event, held at the Holiday Inn hotel in Eindhoven on 13 and 14 ...

In its regular feature “The long read”, the leading UK newspaper The Guardian recently published an in-depth article on the highly topical theme of plastics. The article provides a balanced overview o...

From thermodynamics and molecular interactions to the ‘Michels pressure balance’: the fascinating story of how the long Dutch tradition of scientific research on gases and liquids contributed to the d...

The DPI Annual Meeting 2018 will be held at Holiday Inn Eindhoven on Tuesday 13 November.  This year’s theme will be Circular Economy, which is highly relevant in today’s world and will no doubt be o...

DPI is seeking to team up with its industrial partners in the field of polyolefins (PO) to launch a programme of activities aimed at exploring the technical and economic feasibility of achieving full ...

DPI postdoc Georgios Vogiatzis received the GRACM PhD Award for the best thesis of the year 2015 in the field of Computational Mechanics in Greece for the year of 2015 at the triennial Greek Associati...

Five new projects have been approved within the area Polyolefins. DPI prides itself on selecting only research projects to be executed in best of class academic groups at universities worldwide on beh...

Two new DPI projects studying adsorption during polymer flooding have recently started within the area Polymers for oil & gas, one at the University of Bordeaux and the other at the University of Twen...

This year, DPI’s Annual Meeting was a special occasion. It marked the institute’s twentieth anniversary. The event took place on 7 and 8 November and the venue, fittingly, was the Pullman Hotel in Ein...

A blog by Johan Schot (Director of the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex and Professor in History of Technology and Sustainability Transition Studies), invited speaker at...

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 ...

We are pleased to announce the online publication of the third instalment of The Plastics Revolution: How the Netherlands Became a Global Player in Plastics. The first two instalments were published o...

DPI, the collaboration platform for industry-driven research in the field of polymers, is pleased to announce the publication of The Plastics Revolution: How the Netherlands Became a Global Player in ...

The industrial funding partners in the Programme Committee of the DPI Polyolefins programme are looking forward to project proposals for projects to start in 2018. Preferred topics of  new project pr...

DPI, the collaboration platform for industry-driven research in the field of polymers, is pleased to announce the publication of The Plastics Revolution: How the Netherlands Became a Global Player in ...

DPI initiated 17 Fast Track Projects in Q4 2016. These projects focus on research challenges for Industrial partners in the areas of Coatings Technology, Performance Polymers and Polyolefins. The proj...

In addition to our Fundamental Programme, which has projects which are typically 3-4 years, DPI is now initiating a Project proposition which is focused towards industrial research Challenges with a t...

The Rolduc Abbey in the south of the Netherlands will be the venue of the Brightlands Rolduc Polymer Conference, which will be held on 10-13 September. It is a revival of the well-known Rolduc Polymer...

During our Annual Meeting in November, dr. Rolf Scherrenberg from SABIC gave a very interesting lecture about the challenges in the plastic packaging industry. Click here to view the slides from this...

The DPI Golden Thesis Award for 2016 has been granted to Dr. Davood Abbaszadeh in recognition of his excellent research in the field of polymers, as published in the thesis Reduction of Loss Process...

Please note our Call for Proposals for the DPI 2.0 Polyolefins (PO) programme for projects to start in 2017.

On 4 March DPI researcher Yi Jiang defended his thesis entitled ‘Enzymatic polymerization of biobased polyesters and polyamides' at the University Groningen under supervision of Professor Katja Loos. He received the designation ‘cum laude' for his outstanding scientific work and defense of his thesis.