Sustainable Materials for Polyurethanes

Evoco Ltd.专注于为各种行业提供可持续发展的产品，包括时尚、鞋类，从长远来看，还包括家具和汽车。Evoco致力于新的碳材料和工艺，不会增加我们大气中的二氧化碳总负荷。与从化石燃料中提取石油等旧的碳排放方法不同，Evoco在当前的碳循环中工作，寻找有机物质和产生可回收二氧化碳的方法来减少温室气体排放。为了在其产品中实现95%以上的可再生碳含量，Evoco一直在探索合成新型生物基二异氰酸酯，并已申请了多项专利。这个项目的主要目标是为他们的三种专有材料开发一种工艺。重点将是让KEMITEK在第一年开发一种新型生物基二异氰酸酯的中试工厂规模的工艺，并在第二年试验放大专利多元醇作为第二部分，随后在第三年扩大专利生物增塑剂的规模。EVOCO希望实现一种新型生物基异氰酸酯的工业化(专利正在申请中)，可以通过更友好的化学工艺来生产。然后，他们还想生产以生物为基础的新型多元醇。生物多元醇可以替代现有的多元醇，因为它们具有相似的结构和性质，但来自可再生原料，而不是石化产品，也可以替代结构和性质略有不同的现有多元醇，或具有全新功能和性能特征的新化合物。最后，Evoco希望进行新型生物增塑剂的产业化。生物增塑剂具有可再生、可降解、低毒、耐溶剂性好、失水率低、增塑性能好等优点，有望部分或全部替代邻苯二甲酸酯类增塑剂。

EVOCO Ltd. is focused on sustainable products for various industries, including fashion, footwear and, over the long term, furniture and automotive. EVOCO is committed to new carbon materials and processes that do not increase the overall load of CO2 in our atmosphere. Unlike old carbon methods such as the extraction of petroleum from fossil fuels, EVOCO works within the current carbon cycle, finding organic substances and methods that generate recyclable CO2 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. To achieve over 95% renewable carbon content in their products, EVOCO has been exploring the synthesis of novel biobased diisocyanates and has applied for several patent applications. The main goal of this project is to develop a process for all three of their proprietary materials. The priority will be to have KEMITEK develop a process at the pilot plant scale for the novel biobased diisocyanate in year 1, as well as a pilot scale-up of a proprietary polyol as a 2nd part in year 2 and followed by the scale-up of the proprietary biobased plasticizer as a 3rd part in year 3 of the project.EVOCO wants to carry out the industrialization of a novel isocyanate that is biobased (patent pending), and that can be made through a more friendly chemical process. Then, they also wants to produce novel polyols that are also biobased. Biobased polyols can be drop-in replacements for existing polyols, as they have similar structures and properties, but are derived from renewable raw materials rather than petrochemicals, as well as substitutes for existing polyols that have slightly different structures and properties, or new compounds with entirely new functionality and performance characteristics. Finally, EVOCO wants to carry out the industrialization of novel biobased plasticizers. Biobased plasticizers show advantages of renewability, degradability, hypotoxicity, excellent solvent resistance, low bleeding and excellent plasticizing performances that make them potential partial or total replacement to o-phthalate plasticizers.