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Brian Oost, Eska\u2019s Head of Operations \u2013 Solid Board Business Area, and Ren\u00e9 Rozendal, Paques Biomaterials\u2019 co-founder, signed the MoU for the first full-scale PHA plant from paper process water. \u00a9 Paques Biomaterials<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

ESKA and Paques Biomaterials signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the construction of the first full-scale plant for the production of PHA from paper process water. In the coming year, both parties will carry out all the preparations to make an investment decision for the construction of the factory at the Hoogezand production site in the municipality of Midden Groningen in the middle of next year.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cImprove the living and working environment\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThis choice was born out of our commitment to continuously reducing our emissions to the environment. Our factories have been strongly embedded in the local environment for more than a century, and that relation comes with great responsibility. With the new plant, we will purify our process water system, which will significantly improve the living and working environment and at the same time produce a natural alternative to plastic (PHA),\u201d says Bert Bodewes, Manager Corporate Social Responsibility at ESKA<\/strong>. \u201cIn everything we do, looking for circular solutions that are really good for society is what we stand for as a B corporation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCircularity at its best\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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“That is why we have chosen to realize the world\u2019s first industrial water purification system, which both keeps our process water clean and produces PHA. Our process water contains a valuable organic waste stream, which is hardly valorised. It also contributes to the circular paper industry because PHA can also be used as a biodegradable barrier coating and\/or adhesive in our products. If we produce PHA with our own process water and can then use it in our own products, that is, of course, circularity at its best.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis step is a global first\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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For Paques Biomaterials, this is a big step in scaling up. \u201cWe have been working with ESKA since 2014 and it is great to be able to seal this partnership now by signing of this MoU,\u201d said Ren\u00e9 Rozendal, co-founder of Paques Biomaterials<\/strong>. \u201cTogether with ESKA, we are now preparing the construction of the first full-scale PHA biomass plant. This step is a global first in the PHA industry and in the paper industry. By producing PHA in the process water, you can create value with water purification. Moreover, it is particularly interesting for companies that, like ESKA, want to work on zero liquid discharge solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ESKA and Paques Biomaterials signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the construction of the first full-scale plant for the production of PHA from paper process water. In the coming year, both parties will carry out all the preparations to make an investment decision for the construction of the factory at the Hoogezand production site in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":153582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Development agreement signed for first full-scale PHA biomass plant from paper process water","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5838,5842,6026,10416,7676],"supplier":[13165,23276],"class_list":["post-153580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioeconomy","tag-biomass","tag-biopolymers","tag-circulareconomy","tag-pha","supplier-eska","supplier-paques-biomaterials-bv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153580"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=153580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}