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 ...