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‘We need more Biorizons’
“We need more initiatives like Biorizon, if we want to meet our goals of reducing CO2…
Cross-border cooperation in biobased materials
Imagine you could get tobacco plants to make elastin-like proteins with the properties of spider silk.…
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Shell joins Waste-to-Chemicals consortium Rotterdam
Shell joins the W2C consortium that wants to build a factory in Rotterdam that makes valuable…
VITO to build pilot plant for production of bio-aromatics from lignin
The indepent Flemish research organization VITO and partners have presented a plan to build a pilot…
CO emissions as a feedstock for plastics production
Carbon monoxide from process gases (syngas) can also form a useful raw material for chemical building…
Oleon opens new factory in Ertvelde
The chemical giant Oleon from Ghent opened a new factory for sustainable cosmetics, lubricants and car…
Moderate growth in biobased polymers
The production capacities of biobased polymers continue to grow at around 3 to 4% per year,…