Avantium N.V., a chemical technology company, develops and commercializes bio-based plastics and chemicals in the Netherlands. It operates through three segments: Avantium R&D Solutions, Avantium Renewable Chemistries, and Avantium Renewable Polymers. The company offers Releaf, boasts barrier properties for carbon dioxide and oxygen that leads to longer shelf life of packaged product used for bottle, fibres, and film and more applications. It also provides furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA), a building block for the high-performance plant-based polymer polyethylene furanoate (PEF). In addition, the company offers YXY Technology which catalytically converts plant-based sugars into FDCA. Further, it is involved in the provision of Flowrence, a catalyst testing system; and development and commercialization of the Ray Technology and its plantMEG, as well as Volta Technology and Dawn Technology. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.