# Avantium partners with EPC and POLYMETRIX to scale up PEF production

Avantium has entered into a Joint Development Agreement with EPC Engineering & Technologies and POLYMETRIX to develop and commercialize continuous PEF polyester production technology for plant capacities exceeding 100,000 tonnes per annum.

- Type: Partnership
- Announced: 2025-02-06
- Where: United States
- Status: announced
- Capacity: over 100,000 tonnes per annum
- Products: PEF (polyethylene furanoate), FDCA (furandicarboxylic acid)
- Sectors: [Plastics and Polymers](https://endata.com/sectors/plastics-polymers.md), [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md)

## Companies

- [Avantium](https://endata.com/companies/7773.md)
- [Polymetrix](https://endata.com/companies/2390.md) (partner)
- [Avantium](https://endata.com/companies/7773.md) (partner)
- [EPC Engineering & Technologies](https://endata.com/companies/82770.md) (partner)
- [Amcor Rigid Packaging USA](https://endata.com/companies/83100.md) (partner)

## Sources

- [chemanalyst.com](https://www.chemanalyst.com/NewsAndDeals/NewsDetails/avantium-partners-with-epc-and-polymetrix-to-scale-up-pef-production-34386), 2025-02-06: "This collaboration builds upon a pre-existing relationship between Avantium and EPC, who previously collaborated on a conceptual design for a 25,000 tonne per annum PEF continuous polymerization plant."
- [endata.com](https://endata.com/announcements/11883-avantium-and-amcor-sign-jv-agreement-to-explore-releaf-pef-in-rigid-containers), 2025-02-21: "Dutch firm Avantium has signed a joint venture (JV) agreement with Amcor Rigid Packaging USA to explore the use of its plant-based polymer PE furanoate (PEF) in rigid containers."

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