19^th Feb­ru­ary 2020 — In the ​“PHAt” pro­ject, the Fed­er­al Min­istry of Edu­ca­tion and Research has been fund­ing a con­sor­ti­um of four part­ners with around 1.25 mil­lion euros since Octo­ber 2017. The experts from industry and sci­ence are devel­op­ing sus­tain­able thicken­ers and bind­ers for the lub­ric­ant industry using bio-based raw mater­i­als from microor­gan­isms. Arriv­ing in the final year of the pro­ject, sev­er­al applic­a­tion tests already reveal con­sid­er­able results.
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