Will industry in the Netherlands survive? With that question, employers' organisation VNO-NCW sounded the alarm this month. The challenges are piling up: high energy and raw material prices, emission targets and the need to invest heavily in sustainability. Greenification is a possible solution, as was evident at the Chemical Recycling Summit (CRS) organised by Circular Biobased Delta and partners in Moerdijk, The Netherlands on 22 November.

The 2022 Bio-based Innovation Student Challenge Europe (BISC-E) Finals were a close call. Student teams competed against each other in this European competition, and in the end, three winners emerged, all receiving about a quarter of the votes. That shows that the top three teams competed with comparably high level of entries.

How can we involve more people in the biobased transition and stimulate the use of biobased materials? That question is the focus of the SIA Taskforce for Applied Research SPRONG programme 'Living Ecosystem.'