European network of FURan based chemicals and materials FOR a sustainable development

Modern society relies on a huge quantity of polymeric materials, spanning from those used in common products such as textile, packaging, household and automotive components, to those applied to more sophisticated uses in healthcare and electronics. Today, these polymers are still almost exclusively based on fossil resources; nevertheless growing attention is being focused on polymers derived from renewable resources and related monomers building blocks.
The transformation towards a sustainable model society is one of the major challenges faced by decision-makers, science, industry and the society itself. The evolution to this new model, requires, in the medium-long term, a dramatic change in paradigm, from an economy based in fossil resources to produce chemicals and materials (along with energy and fuels) to the so-called bio-based economy, where most of those are produced from renewable feedstocks, i.e. mainly biomass.