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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 ...
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Agenda
01/02/2021
National Conference Circular Economy 2021
04/02/2021
Circular Plastics Conference 2021