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BioBTX opens pilot plant in Groningen
BioBTX B.V., a sustainable technology development company, announced the official opening of the pilot plant for…
Ioniqa launching first PET plastic upcycling plant
Ioniqa is scaling up its technology for infinite PET plastic upcycling: the technology company is building…
Shell to invest $ 200 million in New Energies campus
The Dutch-British energy company Shell will invest $200 million in the renovation and expansion of its…
Photanol to build demo-plant on AkzoNobel site Delfzijl
Photanol raised € 8 million from shareholders to build a demonstration plant in Delfzijl for the…
Biomethane and biogas to solve Barbados waste problem
Bright Biomethane from Enschede, The Netherlands will collaborate with Biogen Biotechnologies on Barbados for the production…
European Commission announces new biofuels forum
The European Commission has announced a plan to create a single forum representing the entire biofuels…
Biomass takes up 1,000x more space than fossil energy
The production of electric power from biomass takes up the most space of all energy sources…
Giving the European bio-economy a boost at the Pitch Perfect event
Effective cross-border cooperation within the chains in the biobased economy is only possible if partners are…
Agriculture uses more diesel for mechanical weeds control
Agricultural land is increasingly being processed mechanically to remove weeds. This is a consequence of stricter…
Chemical industry should use more sugar
More sugar should be used to produce biobased chemicals, the German nova Institute states in a…
Procter & Gamble embraces the bio-based future
The US manufacturer of household products Procter & Gamble (P&G), brings a growing portfolio of sustainable,l…
New biobased additives for paint and construction
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals and Renmatix, a leader in the global plant-based technology movement, will jointly develop…
Austrian researchers turn baker’s yeast into biodiesel
In the near future, cars and trucks may well run on climate-neutral biodiesel made from yeast.…
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…
Consortium develops new portfolio of biosurfactants
On August 1st, the AppliSurf project will start in Flanders: the development of an innovative and…
Flanders.bio appoints 8 new directors
In order to support the further implementation and realization of its strategy, flanders.bio has strengthened its…
Waste plastic as a raw material for fuels and plastics
Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel, is now exploring ways to use liquefied waste…
EFIB 2018 programme now online
EuropaBio has announced its prelimenary programme for the new EFIB meeting in Toulouse, France at 17…
A global standard for the recyclability of plastics
In an effort to provide a consistent metric to guide the efforts of sustainability for plastics…
Catalisti is looking for partners for ecotoxicity research
The Flemish innovation cluster Catalisti is looking for industrial companies that want to participate in the…
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