This year’s autumn symposium of Royal Dutch Chemical Society (KNCV) highlights these achievements. The symposium is aptly themed ‘Sustainable and Green Chemistry’ and will take place on Friday 17 November at Willem Alexander Sportcentrum of the Hanze University in Groningen, The Northern Netherlands.
Speakers will be experts from companies and researchers from knowledge institutes:
- General Perspective: Prof. Ton Schoot Uiterkamp (University of Groningen)
- Biobased Building Blocks: Gert-Jan Gruter (Avantium) and Tijmen Vries (Bio-BTX)
- Polymer Recycling: Marco Brons (Cure Technology) and Vincent Voet (NHL Stenden)
- Biobased Microbial Plastics: René Rozendal (Paques Biomaterials) and Janneke Krooneman (Hanze University – RCBBE)
- Upcycling: André Heeres (Hanze University – RCBBE)
The symposium is sponsored by Chemport Europe. See the symposium website for details.
Image: Hanze University
