To be a technology-driven innovation leader, is the ambition of the ‘new DuPont’ that in June of this year completed the last phase of a two-year restructuring programme. The restructuring was to lead to greater efficiency, a more clearly defined portfolio, as well as greater outward openness.

In cooperation with the Green Chemistry Campus, Biobased Delta organised Dutch participation in the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology (WCIB) this summer. During the congress, held from 8 to 11 July, in Des Moines, Iowa (USA), the key focus was on developments relating to renewable chemicals, synthetic biology, enzymes, food ingredients, biofuels, algae and more.

The Northern Netherlands intends to produce billions of cubic metres of hydrogen. It intends to do so in a CO2 neutral way. Preferably as fast as possible. This is because hydrogen is viewed as a crucial component of the green industry of the future – as an energy carrier and as a raw material. It is going to be a mega operation that requires new offshore wind farms, onshore electrolysers and a gigantic jump in the use of hydrogen. The business community in the northern part of the country is going to invest some €2.8 billion in it over the next ten years.