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5 January 2021

Happy 2021!

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...
Happy 2021!
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17 November 2020

Looking back on the DPI Annual Meeting 2020

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...
Looking back on the DPI Annual Meeting 2020
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12 November 2020

DPI is looking for a Senior Business Developer Biomedical

DPI has an ambition for growth. Our Business Development department plays an important role in the further initiation of new research programmes as well as the acquisition of new partners. To expand o...
DPI is looking for a Senior Business Developer Biomedical
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16 October 2020

“We need to get going towards application-driven recycling”

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...
“We need to get going towards application-driven recycling”
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13 October 2020

Prof. Busico hands over duties as Scientific Chair Polyolefins to Prof. Rieger

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...
Prof. Busico hands over duties as Scientific Chair Polyolefins to Prof. Rieger
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6 October 2020

Extended Producer Responsibility: does it also apply to plastic packaging?

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...
Extended Producer Responsibility: does it also apply to plastic packaging?
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29 September 2020

DPI Annual Meeting 2020

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...
DPI Annual Meeting 2020
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20 August 2020

PhD defence Hanne van der Kooij

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...
PhD defence Hanne van der Kooij
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23 July 2020

Truth about plastics and the environment: Why perception is not always reality

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...
Truth about plastics and the environment: Why perception is not always reality
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7 July 2020

Current DPI programme

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...
Current DPI programme
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28 January 2020

DPI appoints Ernst Jan van Klinken as Managing Director

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...
DPI appoints Ernst Jan van Klinken as Managing Director
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20 January 2020

Saudi Aramco and Kingfa partner up with DPI

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...
Saudi Aramco and Kingfa partner up with DPI
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19 December 2019

DPI: a unique collaboration format

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...
DPI: a unique collaboration format
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12 December 2019

DPI Annual Meeting 2019: Farewell to Managing Director Jacques Joosten

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 ...
DPI Annual Meeting 2019:  Farewell to Managing Director Jacques Joosten
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8 October 2019

DPI and ISPT launch Circular Plastics Initiative

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 and ISPT launch Circular Plastics Initiative
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29 September 2019

The Role of Plastics in the Circular Economy - Today and Tomorrow

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 ...
The Role of Plastics in the Circular Economy - Today and Tomorrow
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2 September 2019

Towards a fully circular plastics economy

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...
Towards a fully circular plastics economy
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15 August 2019

DPI is looking for a Managing Director

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 is looking for a Managing Director
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11 December 2018

Looking back at the DPI Annual Meeting 2018

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 ...
Looking back at the DPI Annual Meeting 2018
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26 November 2018

Article The Guardian: The plastic backlash: what's behind our sudden rage – and will it make a difference?

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...
Article The Guardian: The plastic backlash: what's behind our sudden rage – and will it make a difference?
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2 October 2018

Thijs Michels, “HOW POLYETHENE CAME ABOUT”

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...
Thijs Michels, “HOW POLYETHENE CAME ABOUT”
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27 September 2018

DPI Annual Meeting 2018

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 Annual Meeting 2018
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6 August 2018

DPI launches initiative to explore full circularity of flexible plastic packaging

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 launches initiative to explore full circularity of flexible plastic packaging
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11 June 2018

DPI postdoc Georgios Vogiatzis receives GRACM PhD Award

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...
DPI postdoc Georgios Vogiatzis receives GRACM PhD Award
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16 April 2018

Polyolefins: five new projects

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...
Polyolefins: five new projects
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5 April 2018

New projects in area Polymers for Oil and Gas

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...
 New projects in area Polymers for Oil and Gas
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14 December 2017

DPI Annual Meeting 2017

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...
DPI Annual Meeting 2017
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20 November 2017

A post-plastic age by stealth?

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...
A post-plastic age by stealth?
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16 November 2017

Final instalment of The Plastics Revolution published

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 ...
Final instalment of The Plastics Revolution published
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19 October 2017

Third instalment The Plastics Revolution

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...
Third instalment The Plastics Revolution
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22 September 2017

Second instalment of The Plastics Revolution published

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 ...
Second instalment of The Plastics Revolution published
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22 August 2017

Call for Proposals: Polyolefins

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...
Call for Proposals: Polyolefins
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13 July 2017

First instalment of The Plastics Revolution published: book highlights Dutch contribution to the development of plastics

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 ...
First instalment of The Plastics Revolution published: book highlights Dutch contribution to the development of plastics
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