On Wednesday, November 3, 2021 the Plastics Application & Training Center (KATC) officially opened its doors to the general public at the Delta Agrifood Business (DAB) lab in Bergen op Zoom. This new location gave them the opportunity to grow into an open innovation center, where education and business meet in the field of development of new (green) plastics, natural fibers and composites. In addition, the KATC is an education and training location for students and employees from the plastics industry. A unique combination.

"And the winner of the WOW Jury Award for Best Cooperation is...CHAPLIN! In this programme, companies, governments and knowledge institutions work together to replace the raw material in asphalt, bitumen, with lignin. By doing so, they make an important contribution to greening the road construction industry and reducing CO2."

InvestNL commissioned Ecomatters to write an overview report on 'Biopolymers from a regulatory perspective'.The report discusses the developments in regulation of biobased plastics throughout the entire chain, both at EU and NL level.