21 October 202218 October 2022 Dragons’ Den: chemical building blocks from CO2 Innovator Oxylum, a spin-off of the University of Antwerp, is capable of producing a variety of chemical building blocks, including formic acid, methanol, ethylene, as well as carbon monoxide
4 August 20221 August 2022 €6m investment: scaling a sustainable solution for plastics recycling Itero is scaling their plastic-to-product recycling after raising €6m in investments, led by infinity recycling's circular plastics fund
26 October 202122 October 2021 Accelerating electrification with the “Cracker of the Future” Consortium Today the “Cracker of the Future” consortium announces two new members and accelerating the development of a game changing technology for the electrification of the steam cracking process. This enables a revolutionary decrease in greenhouse gas emissions
Repsol + Versalis: Beteiligung am Konsortium “Cracker of the Future” Das “Cracker of the Future” Konsortium freut sich über zwei neue Mitglieder und kann seine wegweisende Entwicklung zur Verstromung des Steamcrackerverfahrens derart steigern, dass eine revolutionäre Einsparung von Klimagas-Emissionen möglich wird
7 January 20219 September 2021 Creating animal food from a greenhouse gas In the project React-First, scientists are working to produce a high-protein feed called Proton - more or less from thin air
9 November 20209 September 2021 Animal feed made from recycled carbon secures €2.5M European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator funding Deep Branch has developed a low carbon animal feed with a nutritional profile that is comparable with fishmeal
22 May 20209 September 2021 Recycling Technologies’ first site in Europe will be located at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in the Netherlands New pilot plant for chemical recycling of plastics to enable the creation of value from plastic waste
11 November 20197 November 2019 A Dutch consortium led by Vertoro has been granted €1.2 million to investigate the potential of crude lignin oil as a platform for sustainable chemicals and materials New project to focus on the further development of an interregional campus eco-system and for the conversion of biomass residues to crude lignin oil
15 December 201613 December 2016 Forschung baut auf Schälabfälle von Garnelen Eröffnung der neuen Labore des Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials, AMIBM
Research Banking on Peels of Shrimp The new laboratories of the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials, AMIBM, have been inaugurated
20 April 201618 April 2016 The Bioeconomy: The Netherlands in Pole Position Which three main measures Europe needs to foster the growth of the bioeconomy?
12 April 20167 April 2016 Biorizon scales up its bio-aromatics research again Commercially promising results for the conversion of wood, sugars and lignin
19 January 201618 January 2016 Green Chemistry Campus tenants move forward with bio-aromatics research Chemelot InSciTe gets European grant for research on biobased building blocks
27 March 201525 March 2015 Wageningen UR involved in Brightlands Materials Center Food & Biobased Research to support two main areas on sustainable and biobased packaging research
18 March 201517 March 2015 Sappi to locate ground-breaking nanocellulose pilot plant at Brightlands Chemelot Campus in the Netherlands Company to proceed with a pilot-scale plant for low-cost Cellulose NanoFibrils production
6 February 2013 Kick off of Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials Cross-border partnership on the Chemelot Campus to develop new, innovative and sustainable materials made from plants