A consortium of leading companies, knowledge institutions and universities launches the Circular Aromatics project, a 23 million euro initiative aimed at scaling up an innovative chemical recycling technology. The project offers an alternative solution for complex plastic waste streams and biomass, with the aim of producing circular chemical products.

The DPI Golden Thesis Award for 2024 has been granted to Dr. Maximilian (Max) Werny in recognition of his excellent research in the field of polymers, as published in the thesis entitled: “Probing...

The DPI Annual Meeting 2024 will take place on Tuesday November 19th in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The programme includes updates from DPI, lectures from Drea Berghorst, Managing Director Plastics E...

The Supervisory Board of DPI has four new members: Dr. Rolf van Benthem, Dr.  Krijn Dijkstra, Dr. Lada Kurelec and Arnoud Reininga, MSc. They started in November 2023 after the formal approval of the ...

In 2023, we have started five new projects in DPI fundamental research. Two projects started in Polyolefins and three in Performance Polymers. New projects Polyolefins #863 – Machine-Learning-aided ...

The review meetings of the DPI programmes Polyolefins and Performance Polymers will both take place on Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 November at the Holiday Inn Hotel Eindhoven, the Netherlands, and onl...

At the end of September, DPI organised a unique 5-day course on Structure Processing Properties for university students and industry professionals within its Polyolefins Programme. The hybrid course h...

We will not organise a DPI Annual Meeting in 2023. The organisation of the yearly DPI Annual Meeting is very time-consuming and expensive. Due to the challenges that DPI and the polymer community face...

In June, DPI co-organised the BlueSky-Incorep conference, a combination of the Blue Sky Conference on Catalytic Olefin Polymerisation and the International Conference on the Reaction Engineering of Po...

The DPI Supervisory Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Eric Hogenboom as our Managing Director as of 1 August 2023. Eric Hogenboom is a seasoned business leader and has worked for over...

On Wednesday 14 June, the Circular Plastics Initiative organised its annual Circular Plastics Conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Over 120 experts in the field of circular plastics gathered to for...

Check out the updated programme of the Blue Sky-Incorep Polyolefin Conference. The event will be held on 12-16 June 2023 in Sorrento (Italy), at the Hilton Sorrento Palace Conference Center. Programm...

On Wednesday 1 and Thursday 2 March DPI organised the Polyolefins Review Meeting in Eindhoven. The meeting was a great success with more than 100 people attending the meeting online and over 40 physic...

Jacques Joosten and Jan Stamhuis both held key positions at DPI for a decade and a half, Jacques as Managing Director and Jan as Programme Area Coordinator. They both took their farewell of DPI at the...

We are very happy that Shell has taken two additional participations in DPI. Next to the ongoing participation in the Performance Polymers Programme, Shell is now also a partner in the Polyolefins Pro...

We wish you a happy, healthy and innovative 2023! With the industry behind the steering wheel and the academia as co-pilot of DPI, we will keep working on a better, brighter and more sustainable futu...

In November DPI celebrated its 25th anniversary during the DPI Annual Meeting on 8 and 22 November. The first day was a meeting at the Van der Valk Hotel in Eindhoven and the second day was a live bro...

Recently we started two new projects within the DPI Polyolefins programme. HITT_Feasibility (#858)Ultra-high molar mass and long chain branched polyolefins possess exceptional properties of great ind...

2022 is an important year for DPI as it marks our 25th anniversary. A real milestone that we want to celebrate with you! We invite everyone who is or has been involved in the DPI network to celebrate...

Recently we have started two new projects within the DPI Polyolefins programme. The first one started in March: Multi-scale Analysis and Design of the Pyrolysis of Polyolefins (MADPY). In this project...

The DPI project QLife “Quantum-Chemical Life-Time Optimization of Sustainable Engineering Polymers“ kicked-off. The project will make use of a novel, computational approach to aid the development of n...

The DPI project TRAIL 'Monitoring lifetime of thermoplastic composites by combining analytics and machine learning' had its kick-off meeting earlier this month. The project will focus on combining non...

Last week the DPI project PAREX “Polyamides/Glass fiber recycling by reactive extrusion” kicked-off. The project will focus on strategies to recover the performance of polymer composites after their r...

DPI welcomes the ThermoPlastic composites Research Center (TPRC) (the Netherlands) as a new academic partner in the DPI programme Performance Polymers. TPRC, together with University of Twente, will e...

The management of DPI is shocked about the invasion of the Russian military in Ukraine and the resulting war. In line with the EU sanctions, DPI suspends all formal and institutional partnerships wit...

The DPI projects MEAPP “Mechanism of Electrical Aging Caused by Different Structural Defects in Performance Polymer Materials” and CreepFat “Creep Fatigue Interaction in Performance Polymers at High T...

Last year DPI welcomed seven new academic partners within the Performance Polymers (PP) programme. They received granted PP projects within the PP Call focused on extending lifetime of performance pol...