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Circular round table on best practices from the Delta region
Circular biobased entrepreneurship offers opportunities for economic growth and reduction of CO2 emissions. This was demonstrated…
2022 will be year of change for Circular Biobased Delta
In the new year, Circular Biobased Delta (CBBD) will enter a decisive phase: 2022 is to…
Scaling up bio-aromatics research and application development with the industry
It was supposed to be a physical meeting place, but the 8th Biorizon Annual Event in…
HAN BioCentre opens new laboratories
With a low-key open day, HAN BioCentre celebrated the inauguration of three new laboratories this month.…
SPRONG consortium on Sustainability of the chemical industry takes off
On 1 December, Hanze University Groningen, NHL Stenden, Zuyd University of Applied Sciences and the University…
“Combining science with a business case is a valuable experience”
A leather-like material from wastewater, packing peanuts from bread and cleaning swimming water with duckweed: participants…
Green chemistry from biomass
Discussions about the sustainability of woody biomass, which have been taking place in the Netherlands for…
Making an impact with bio-based democases
The bioeconomy is flourishing in Europe. Biorefinery initiatives are sprouting up all over the place; the…
Fish show how to measure flow
In almost 4 billion years of evolution, nature has developed efficient and sustainable solutions for applications…
Chemical industry in the north of the Netherlands leads in climate transition
Rising temperatures on earth are causing worldwide dehydration and flooding, forest fires, landslides and changes in…
Getting the maximum value out of biobased feedstock
Biorefining is the way to get maximum value out of biobased raw materials and to close…
A crop with great opportunities for Europe
The Andean lupin contains more protein than soya and more oil than sunflower. It can be…
Innovation through cooperation
"Sometimes I feel like a boy with a chemistry box here," says Johan Visser, site director…
From waste plastics to ‘green’ raw material
The chemical industry of the future will no longer run solely on petroleum, but partly on…
Portugal potential champion of the European bioeconomy
Portugal has the potential to become the Green Deal champion of Europe. This is evident from…
Pyrolysis is becoming mainstream
While the Southern Netherlands Pyrolysis Testing Ground project is coming to an end, pyrolysis is becoming…
Biorizon on track for commercialisation of bio-aromatics
Biorizon is well on track towards the commercialisation of the production of bio-aromatics starting in 2025.…
‘Chemical recycling approach will become global blueprint’
Chemical recycling will become a game changer in the waste processing and chemical sector. It is…
‘Consider plastics from a fundamentally different perspective’
‘We need to consider plastics from a fundamentally different perspective. Not as waste but as man-made…
New developments in the field of PHA
Sewage water and sludge are raw materials for the production of PHA: biodegradable biopolymers made by…