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Avantium opens bio-MEG demonstration plant in Delfzijl
Avantium opened its plant-based MEG (mono-ethylene glycol) demonstration factory in Chemie Park Delfzijl, the Netherlands, today,…
Webinar: developing a pyrolysis based biorefinery
Greenovate! Europe is organising a webinar on 14 November about fast pyrolysis, a promising technology for…
Avantium partners with R&F Chemical to market high-value PEF applications in Korea
Avantium Renewable Polymers and R&F Chemical announce their marketing and development partnership for high-value markets for…
BIC hosts European final BISC-E student challenge
“Contribute to the sustainability of society by designing a bio-based product or process”. This was the…
Antwerp incubator for green chemistry will open in 2020
To help promising start-ups and ambitious growth companies from home and abroad scale-up their sustainable chemistry…
CoEBBE wants to become an international centre of expertise
The Centre of Expertise Biobased Economy (CoE-BBE) of the Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences Avans and…
Over 30 European bio-economy experts at BBI JU Stakeholder Forum
The BBI JU Stakeholder Forum 2019 program including the names of speakers has been recentely announced.…
Northern-Netherlands is looking for ‘green’ scale-ups
Economic Board Groningen organizes in collaboration with partners in the Northern Netherlands an internationally oriented pitch…
Bio Port to give ‘stamp of approval’ for innovation ideas
The Bio Port project challenges biobased SMEs to submit ideas for specific business cases that subsequently…
Green Chemistry Campus expands again
Less than a year after the opening of the Demo Facility, the Green Chemistry Campus in…
Production of bio-aromatics ready for scaling up
Upscaling is the central theme of the sixth Biorizon Event. This will take place this year…
EFIB 2019: the stage for biotech innovations
The 12th edition of EFIB took place in Brussels at the beginning of this month. About…
Biotechnology contributes to sustainability goals
"We can no longer wait to develop circular and biobased alternatives for food, feed, fuels and…
“Measuring, testing and trial runs”
Recyclers are confronted with more than 250 types of plastics. Often, it concerns packaging that is…
Northern Netherlands invests billions in green hydrogen
Hydrogen is seen as a crucial part of the green industry of the future, both as…
Agro-based Tiny House overcomes thresholds for biobased house building
With the opening of the 'agro-based' Tiny House in Emmen, the Interreg VA project 'Biobased House…
Brussels Agriculture Council meeting about financing the bio-economy
Entrepreneurs who have developed key technologies in the bio-economy and are looking for financing for their…
Use or Invest in Biobased Polymerization Shared Facility
Green Chemistry Campus, REWIN and Wageningen University are planning the development of the first multipurpose Polymerization…
Suiker Unie opens Green Protein Demo Plant
On Thursday, October 10, the official opening of the new Green Protein Demo Plant of Suiker…
World-wide strong adoption of biotech crops, except in the EU
A total of 70 countries adopted biotech crops through cultivation and importation in 2018. It is…