Abstract:

Andere Basterretxea, Co-founder & General director of Polykey, and Coralie Jehanno, Co-founder & Scientific Director of Polykey About Polykey: POLYKEY is a start-up which have arisen from the POLYMAT Basque Excellency Research Centre in Spain in 2020 with the objective of contributing to the future of polymers with a strategic vision and commitment to innovation and sustainability. The company emerged as a polymer producer and R&D service provider acting in three areas established as objectives for a transition to a sustainable future: (1) the synthesis of bio-based polymer, (2) the chemical recycling of commodity plastics and (3) the synthesis of innovative materials for the next generation batteries. We offer to our clients’ innovative technologies and a wide catalogue of products that are designed to address current needs of the polymer chemistry field in each of these three important topics. After an introduction about the company and a summary of the recent accomplishments and future challenges, the presentation will be focus on the scaling up and entrance into the market of the different technologies of the company.