Sustainable Materials for Polyurethanes

EVOCO有限公司专注于各种行业的可持续产品，包括时尚，鞋类，以及长期的家具和汽车。EVOCO致力于不增加大气中二氧化碳总负荷的新型碳材料和工艺。与从化石燃料中提取石油等旧的碳方法不同，EVOCO在当前的碳循环中工作，寻找产生可回收二氧化碳的有机物质和方法，以减少温室气体排放。为了在其产品中实现95%以上的可再生碳含量，EVOCO一直在探索新型生物基二异氰酸酯的合成，并申请了多项专利。该项目的主要目标是为这三种专有材料开发一种工艺。首先，KEMITEK将在第一年为新型生物基二异氰酸酯开发中试工厂规模的工艺，并在第二年将专有多元醇作为第二部分进行中试扩大，然后在项目的第三年将专有生物基增塑剂作为第三部分进行扩大。EVOCO希望将一种新型的生物基异氰酸酯（正在申请专利）产业化，这种异氰酸酯可以通过更友好的化学过程来制造。然后，他们还想生产一种新型的多元醇，也是生物基的。生物基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能，但来源于可再生原料而不是石化产品，也可以替代结构和性能略有不同的现有多元醇，或者是具有全新功能和性能特征的新化合物。最后，EVOCO希望开展新型生物基增塑剂的产业化。生物基增塑剂具有可再生性、可降解性、低毒性、优异的耐溶剂性、低出血性和优良的增塑剂性能，有可能部分或完全替代邻苯二甲酸酯增塑剂。

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.