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What’s the true essence of what DSM brings to this market? Our bright science is helping to improve peoples’ lives and preserve the planet - every day. Read on to find out how.
Turning carbon dioxide into coatings
What if you could take carbon dioxide (CO2) and transform it into something useful - like polymers or plastics?
This is precisely what DSM and its partner Novomer are now doing, by developing a revolutionary coating resin that uses CO2 as a raw material.
It’s still early days but initial results suggest we have found completely new and improved properties in coatings. In fact it could replace conventional resins in certain applications altogether.
How big is this development exactly?
If all goes well our new resin will be the first new polymer to enter the mainstream coating industry in a decade.
A sandwich within a sandwich
Next time you buy a sandwich consider that the packaging around it might actually be a ‘sandwich’ too. In fact it could be up to an astonishing 16 micro-layers thick, if produced by DSM.
It’s the result of a cross-industry collaboration between DSM, DEXPlastomers and machine supplier Windmöller and Hölscher to develop multi-layer barrier packaging with synergistic properties that go beyond the individual layers. It’s true next-generation packaging.
The sandwich structure of the film features 16 layers ranging from 1μm to 25μm each. In other words, seriously thin. The end result: A perfectly preserved, mint-condition sandwich. Delicious!
