Our CEO Andere Basterretxea has participated in the Immersion Week for Spanish Startups at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta (USA). Within the NEOTEC program, promoted by the CDTI- Center for Technological Development and Innovation, Polykey has been selected along with 10 other Spanish high-tech SMEs, to be part of the entrepreneurial environment of […]
On June 7-9th, our Scientific Director, Coralie Jehanno, was invited to give a lecture to the Milan Polymer Days on our journey from lab to market. She explained the beginnings of our synthesis of polyethers through organocatalysed polycondensation at the laboratory scale towards the scale-up and industrial adaptations of the technology for fitting the polyurethane […]
POLYKEY has been granted for the NEOTEC program by the CDTI (Centro para el desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial), as one of the top ten classified business projects participating in the NEOTEC contest. The goal of CDTI’s NEOTEC program, Business Public Entity from the Spanish goverment (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación), is to support the creation and […]
Towards a greener recycling route for plastic bottles A protic ionic salt based on the simple mixing of an organic base, TBD, and an organic acid, MSA, has revealed incredible thermal resistance and catalytic abilities. With our new organocatalyst, the depolymerization of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is possible in less than 2 h to yield more […]
