Category: Bio-Aromatics
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BioBTX secures over € 80 million to launch world’s first renewable aromatics plant
BioBTX secures over € 80 million to launch world’s first renewable aromatics plant
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10th Biorizon Annual Event on Bio-aromatics (Video)
On November 30 2023, Biorizon co-initiators TNO & VITO host their 10th Biorizon Annual Event on Bio-Aromatics in Rotterdam and online.
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GreenAro aims for new green production routes to important aromatic base chemicals
Chemical industry needs to look for new sustainable sources of carbon for its products to replace fossil feedstocks. GreenAro project will develop sustainable production routes from renewable raw materials to aromatics needed in high volume for the production of products such as glues, paints and plastics.
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Circular chemicals in Europe: Agilyx & BioBTX announce first of its kind partnership
‘First of its kind’ collaboration in Europe between Agilyx and BioBTX to produce renewable aromatic chemicals in the Benelux region. Aromatic chemicals are fundamental building blocks of the chemical industry, accounting for 40% of total petrochemicals (market worth 200B EUR). They are used to produce everything from drugs to nylon clothing and key elements of…
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New Method to Create Aromatic Compound from Waste
Integrated strategy for the synthesis of aromatic building blocks via upcycling of real-life plastic wastes
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Plants Producing Aromatics
Altered gene helps plants absorb more carbon dioxide, produce more useful compounds
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Relement Receives Grant for Bio Aromatic MPA
Pre-commercial demonstration of bio-aromatic MPA in a 100% sustainable alkyd coating
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Belgian Bio Aromatics Production Update
Within the Flemish government’s Moonshot initiative, which supports industries in reducing their CO2 emissions, the Later Stage Innovation project PILLAR aims to realise a unique pilot infrastructure platform
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NL BioAromatic Conceptual Factory
BAroC project started: Bio-Aromatic Conceptual Factory
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Belgian Bio Aromatics Pilot Plant Update
LignoValue Pilot ready to be built: More than 30 interested companies
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Replacing Fossil Phthalic Anhydride with Bio Aromatics
Study: substantial CO2-reduction by Biorizon’s bio-based 3-methylphthalic anhydride
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New Bio MPA Based Alkyd Coating
Biorizon consortium creates bio-MPA-based alkyd coating that exceeds fossil counterpart in terms of performance, sustainability and resource efficiency
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Painting and Coating with Seaweed
In the ZCORE project, 6 partners have joined forces to demonstrate that seaweed residues can be utilized for the production of biobased coatings (paints) with superior application properties.
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Encina Goes Plastic Waste to BTX with Worley
Benzene, toluene, and xylene (BTX) are important building blocks for a variety of widely-used products including pharmaceuticals, clothing, and glues. Regular BTX is typically derived from the catalytic reforming of naphtha in a petroleum refinery. Striving towards a waste-free future, some technology companies have been looking at sustainable ways to create BTX.
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Enzymatic Synthesis of Biobased Polyesters with Aromatic Diols
Biocatalyzed synthesis of furan and pyridine diols-based polyesters. Tunable crystallinity based on the aliphatic diester used for their synthesis. Complete characterization and analysis of the obtained materials.
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Avantium Sells Bioaromatics Patent Portfolio to TNO
Avantium has sold its bioaromatics patent portfolio to The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, TNO.
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Breakthrough of Bioaromatics
Processes using lignin, sugar, plastic waste, and more are moving out of the lab.
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First Bio-Aromatics Plant in Sight
BioBTX is able to take significant steps in its ambition to realize a commercial plant to produce platform chemicals from waste plastics with a full circular and sustainable process.
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Biorizon 2019 Upscaling Bio-Aromatics
With over 150 visitors, the annual event of Shared Research Center Biorizon at the end of November was well-visited. The bio-aromatics event highlighted the upscaling efforts currently underway in the three research directions or ‘horizons’: the production of bio-aromatics from sugars, lignin and biomass residual flows (via pyrolysis and gasification).
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Biorizon Event 2019 on Bio-Aromatics – LIVE
Today, the Shared Research Center Biorizon will host its 6th Biorizon Annual Event on Bio-aromatics in Antwerp. Follow the Event Live
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Call for Participation: LignoValue Pilot
Biorizon co-initiator VITO, VMH and Worley Belgium have joined forces for the design and construction of a continuous pilot plant for the depolymerization of lignin into innovative biobased aromatics in Flanders. Currently they are looking for companies/venture capitalists that want to participate and/or invest.
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6th Biorizon Annual Event on Bio-Aromatics: Scaling Up Research
On November 27 and 28 2019 Shared Research Center Biorizon will host its 6th Biorizon Annual Event on Bio-aromatics in Antwerp.
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New Project: Bio-Aromatics 4 Coatings
Biorizon co-initiator TNO develops technology to convert furans into functional bio-aromatics.
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Dutch Government Invests in Bio-Aromatics Research
It was recently announced that 130 million euro is being invested in the Dutch Central- and West-Brabant region, 10 million of which contributed by the Dutch government. This is the result of the ‘Central- and West-Brabant Makes and Moves Regional Deal’. One of the 17 projects of the Deal is ‘Knowledge in the Biobased Economy’…
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BIO-HArT: Patents, Publications & Pilot Plant
Since 2016, Biorizon researchers and partners have been working in the cross-border BIO-HArT project to scale up technology for the production of bio-aromatics from biomass, focusing specifically on woody biomass sources. Recently, partners within this successful project have realized publications, patents and last but not least a pilot plant.
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Will Flanders Play a Leading Role in Bio-aromatics?
Exclusive Interview on the Future of Bioaromatics with Ludo Diels, Research Leader at VITO.
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Breakthrough in Converting Lignin into Bio-Aromatics
Mark Crocker and colleagues from University of Kentucky (US) have reported a breakthrough in the heterogeneously catalysed oxidative depolymerisation of lignin, using gold nanoparticles supported on a lithium–aluminium layered double hydroxide.
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Belgium Will Build Plant to Convert Lignin and Wood into Bio-Aromatics
VITO and partners have presented a plan to build a pilot plant in Antwerp for the production of bio-aromatics from lignin/wood.
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Bio Aromatics Derived From Lignin
Aromatic compounds are so easily extracted from (fossil-based) naphtha, that bio aromatics seemed to be science fiction. The reason: lignin, the most probable resource, was hard to handle. Green chemistry knowledge advances so fast that research groups like Dutch / Flemish Biorizon (TNO, VITO and Green Chemistry Campus) provide the possibility to commercially produce Bio aromatics from lignin…
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