Tag: Netherlands
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Coop Stops with PLA Containers
Coop stops selling organic meat in PLA compostable containers.
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Avantium to Build FDCA Plant in the Netherlands
Avantium, announces today that Avantium Renewable Polymers has signed a letter of intent to locate its new flagship plant at Chemie Park Delfzijl, the Netherlands.
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40 Finalists For the €100K Sustainable Industry Challenge
Following an intensive selection procedure, a couple of industrial companies, the challenge setters, together with the initiator Economic Board Groningen, selected 40 innovative companies (scale-ups) from 13 different countries and invited them to the two-day final event of the Sustainable Industry Challenge, Chemport Europe edition in the north of the Netherlands.
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Pioneers of Blue Bioplastics in the Netherlands
When it comes to global-scale issues, it’s often the small, localized problems that spur people to action. While the often-dire rhetoric of the climate crisis is a powerful driver of green technology, it was the visual blight of pollutants floating in the shore waters off their favorite Dutch beach that caused two intrepid Hollanders to…
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Call for Partners: Use or Invest in (Biobased) Polymerization Shared Facility
Green Chemistry Campus, REWIN and Wageningen University are planning the development of the first multipurpose Polymerization Shared Facility Pilot Plant in Bergen op Zoom. In this facility new and redesigned bio-polymers can be produced at a sub-commercial scale. Currently the consortium is looking for companies in the field of new (biobased) polymers that are interested…
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The Netherlands are Building a Seaweed Industry
Dutch chemists, biologists, and engineers lay the groundwork for an ambitious national plan.
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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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8th Circular and Biobased Performance Materials Symposium 2019
The 8th Circular and Biobased Performance Symposium was held in Wageningen, the Netherlands, on Wednesday 19 June 2019. Key industry players from the entire value chain, ranging from waste, agrifood to polymer processing companies, end application producers and users, reflected on their R&D strategies.
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New Consortium Will Convert Biomass Waste into Furfural
Biorizon is setting up a consortium around the conversion of biomass waste into furfural. We’re looking for waste streams, such as manure, cellulosic biomass residuals, spent grain, digestate and sludge. And for end-users to evaluate bio-aromatics in applications, such as coatings, lubricants and adhesives.
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Japan and The Netherlands Revolutionise The Production of FDCA
A new method to synthesize FDCA from a glucose derivative of non-food plant cellulose has been discovered, paving the way for a bioplastics revolution.
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First Car Made Completely From Bioplastics
Eindhoven University of Technology Researchers have created the first car made completely out of bioplastics.
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Mobile Plastic-Free Concept Store on Tour in Europe
NL retailer Ekoplaza launched a plastic-free aisle in one of its stores earlier this year and is now taking this concept on a road tour in Europe.
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Symposium 2018: Biobased Performance Materials #BPM2018
Join the Biobased Performance Materials community at the 7th BPM symposium, this year on Wageningen Campus, the Netherlands, on June 14th, 2018.
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Total Corbion PLA Formally Starts Up Operations
Total Corbion PLA announced on March 2, 2017 the official launch of its operations to produce and market Poly Lactic Acid (PLA) polymers. As announced by its parent companies Total ( France)and Corbion (The Netherlands) last November, the new company is a 50/50 joint venture based in the Netherlands.
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Corbion Purac Intends to Build a 75000 Tpa PLA Production Plant
Corbion Purac ( Netherlands) will accelerate its thrust into the biotechnology arena, making the next step in the bioplastics value chain by becoming a PLA producer.
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Corbion & Basf Partner on Succinity
Another European Bioplastic Collaborative Partnership on Bio-Succinic Acid comes to fruition: a JV between Corbion Purac (Netherlands) and BASF (Germany) starts commercial production.
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Bioplastic Made from Algae
The third generation of plant chemistry: how Algae can be used as feedstock for plastics & more. The University of Greenwich is ready to test the water.
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