On October 5-8, 2025, Prof. Amar Mohanty will be attending the Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference in Montreal. He is the 2025 CIC - Macromolecular Science and Engineering Award winner and will give a lecture titled "Sustainable and Green Materials for a Circular Bioeconomy".On October 5-8, 2025, Prof. Amar Mohanty will be attending the Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference in Montreal. He is the 2025 CIC - Macromolecular Science and Engineering Award winner and will give a lecture titled "Sustainable and Green Materials for a Circular Bioeconomy"....
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Join us on September 22-25, 2025 at the Americas Regional Meeting of the Polymer Processing Society, PPS 2025, held at Guelph, ON, Canada. This conference will aid to foster exchange of innovations and developments in areas related to Polymer Engineering. Please visit us on the PPS 2025 website. PPS 2025 Promo Video: <video width="540" height="310" controls poster="?ft=img/pps_thumbnail.JPG"> <source src="https://pps2025.ca/sites/default/files/2024-05/pps2025_promo_draft3%282024.05.17%29%20%281080p%29.mp4" type="video/mp4"> </video> ...
BDDC members attended the Ontario Biomass Producers Co-Op Annual General Meeting in Elora, Ontario on March 18, 2025. The OBPC is an organization that aims to create profitable and environmentally sustainable biomass markets for Ontario farmers, and holds a conference every year to provide research updates.For more information about the OBPC, click here......
Prof. Mohanty gave a presentation at the 7th AMI Single Serve Capsules event on March 18 and 19, 2025 in Tampa, USA. The North American event brings together professionals in the single serve capsules industry to exchange market and technical information. They discussed brewing system innovation and capsule design technologies, among many other topics and receive solutions to issues within the industry.Prof. Mohanty was an invited speaker and gave a presentation titled "Biodegradable K-Cup and coffee capsule innovation".For more information about the AMI single serve capsules event, click here......
The BDDC participated in the University of Guelph's 101st annual College Royal open house on March 15 and 16, 2025. The College Royal is a campus-wide open house that provides a chance for people to see what professors and students have been working on and explore the campus.The BDDC had an interactive booth with biodegradable material and automotive parts samples and a 3D printing demo. BDDC volunteers spoke with over 600 students, parents, children and other visitors about their research.For more information on the College Royal 2025, click here ...
Amar Mohanty, Manjursi Misra, Debarshi Nath, and Arturo Rodriguez attended the SPE ANTEC 2025 Conference from March 3-6, 2025 in Philadelphia, PA. SPE ANTEC is an annual technical conference about plastics and polymer science that is open for anyone to attend. It highlights new industrial, laboratory, academic and international technology, research, materials and more.Prof. Mohanty presented his work titled "Circular Economy Driven Biodegradable Composites: Can biodegradable plastics alleviate single-use plastic waste problem?"Prof. Misra presented "Biocarbon materials for a circular economy"Arturo presented his work titled "Influence of plasticizers and fillers on the rate of biodegradation of marine biodegradable cellulose acetate composites".Debarshi gave an oral presentation titled "Effect of Compatibilization in Engineering Compostable Biocomposites of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) Reinforced with Cellulosic Fibers"Debarshi's poster presentation titled "Blown Films from Biobased Poly(Butylene Succinate-Co-Adipate) and Surface modified Wollastonite: Impact of Uniaxial Orientation on Film Performance", was selected as second prize winner......
On February 27, 2025, Prof. Misra visited TMU's Department of Chemical Engineering. She presented her work titled "Circular Economy Driven Biodegradable Food Packaging: Can biodegradable plastics alleviate single-use plastic waste problem?" as part of the department's speaker series.On February 27, 2025, Prof. Misra visited TMU's Department of Chemical Engineering. She presented her work titled "Circular Economy Driven Biodegradable Food Packaging: Can biodegradable plastics alleviate single-use plastic waste problem?" as part of the department's speaker series....
On February 26, 2025 a group of 29 high school students, grade 11 & 12 Agricultural Specialist High Skills Major program, from Listowel, ON, along with their teachers, visited the BDDC. Malik Hassan provided an overview of the BDDC's work in sustainability and led the tour.On February 26, 2025 a group of 29 high school students, grade 11 & 12 Agricultural Specialist High Skills Major program, from Listowel, ON, along with their teachers, visited the BDDC. Malik Hassan provided an overview of the BDDC's work in sustainability and led the tour....
On February 12, 2025 Prof. Misra presented at the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Desktop Seminar on sustainable food packaging. She presented her work titled "Circular Economy Driven Biodegradable Food Packaging: Can biodegradable plastics alleviate single-use plastic waste problem?”For more information on this event, please click here......
On February 11, 2025, Dr. Raj Krishnaswamy visited the BDDC to give a seminar on "The Implications of Orientation in Blown Films Based on Blends of Polylactic Acid (PLA) and Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA)." Dr. Raj Krishnaswamy is the vice president of Polymers R&D and new business development at CJ Biomaterials. He has over 20 years of experience in the polymer industry, specializing in biopolymers and high temperature engineering polymers......
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