Producing Sustainable Polyurethanes & Polycarbonates

Purpose and goal

The project satisfied the goal of understanding the market, production process and regulatory requirements, by confirming target applications of its CC, PU and PC products with regards to regulatory requirements and price-points. The project mostly satisfied the goal of verifying the properties of all products both internally and externally. The project also mostly satisfied the goal of scaling up the production of products, verifying productions models, and getting feedback from customers, with the latter activity still continuing due to production delays in the scale-up.

Expected results and effects

The project confirmed that Cyclicor needs to target niche, initially lower volume applications, where there is a demand for CC, PU and PC products without toxins and where the market will accept a higher price-point. Potential markets include consumer plastics with food and/or human contact as well as biomedical applications. With regards to scaling up and verification of product properties, key scale-up challenges were finally overcome both regards to finding a reliable partner, verifying the scalability of the process, and receiving early feedback from potential customers.

Planned approach and implementation

With regards to the first work package focused on the market, process modelling and regulatory requirements, all activities were fulfilled. With regards to the second work package focused on the verification of all product properties, most of the activities were carried out with the exception of two external verifications. With regards to the third work package focused on scaling up, verifying production models and providing product samples, most of the activities were fulfilled with exception of collecting all customer feedback due to scale up delays.