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Smart biomaterials can prevent thousands of leg amputations
Dutch biotech start-ups STENTiT and Vivolta will collaborate with Corbion on the development of a regenerative…
How to get the market for bio-based products in motion
How do we market bio-based products? How do we get them on the shelves, convince buyers…
NextChem studies production of biomethane from pyro-gasified wood
Italian renewable chemistry company NextChem is to carry out a design study on behalf of Storengy…
Flying on waste wood and tomato stems
The aviation sector is under fire: CO2 emissions must be sharply reduced. One of the ways…
Plastics Europe: more room needed urgently for chemical recycling
With a recycling percentage of 45% of collected plastic waste, the Netherlands is the European leader…
Lignin promising raw material for biobased products
Lignin, one of the most common constituents of wood, is a very promising renewable raw material…
Biosynthia raises €11.5 mio. for bio-based vitamins
Industrial biotech company Biosyntia from Copenhagen, Denmark, has closed its Series B investment round of a…
RWE gets permit for electrolyser in Eemshaven, Northern Netherlands
The Dutch province of Groningen has granted RWE a complete environmental permit for the construction of…
Power to the protein transition
The Province of South Holland in The Netherlands aims to become one of the core regions…
Gas and nuclear power ‘green’ after all
Natural gas and nuclear power are now considered 'sustainable energy' in the EU after all. The…
Fruitful CCC Spring Symposium
The CCC spring symposium this year was organized live and was attended by approximately 100 researchers…
Breakthrough in safe and circular performance materials
Researchers in the European CHAMPION project have succeeded in developing new biobased materials for coatings, glues…
Alteqo produces biobased solvents in Delfzijl
Alteqo has opened a production facility in Chemical Park Delfzijl (the Northern Netherlands) that can produce…
Floating solar farm on Amer power plant put into operation
Energy company RWE has put its first floating solar farm into operation. The farm has a…
New Neste biofuel factory definitely located in Rotterdam
Neste, the Finnish manufacturer of renewable fuels, has made a final investment decision to build a…
‘More sustainable and synthetic fuels in European aviation’
The EU should start blending more sustainable and synthetic aviation fuel (SAF or eFuel) with fossil…
Roof-mounted hydrogen panels on the market within four years
Solar power panels are already commonplace, but soon we will be having hydrogen panels on the…
European Inventor Award for metal-eating plants that make green chemistry
French researcher Claude Grison has developed a method of using plants to extract metal elements from…
CBE JU publishes first call for project proposals
The Circular Bio-Based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) has published its first call for project proposals.…
Carlsberg signs off-take agreement for PEF
Carlsberg Group and Avantium have signed an agreement to purchase a fixed quantity of PEF (polyethylene…