{"id":34928,"date":"2016-05-19T07:41:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T05:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=34928"},"modified":"2016-05-11T11:49:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T09:49:09","slug":"akzonobel-and-royal-cosun-to-develop-sustainable-cellulose-products-from-sugar-beet-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/akzonobel-and-royal-cosun-to-develop-sustainable-cellulose-products-from-sugar-beet-processing\/","title":{"rendered":"AkzoNobel and Royal Cosun to develop sustainable cellulose products from sugar beet processing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AkzoNobel and agro-industrial cooperative Royal Cosun have formed a new partnership to develop novel products from cellulose side streams resulting from sugar beet processing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The partnership will combine Royal Cosun&#8217;s specialist knowledge in separating and purifying agricultural process side streams with AkzoNobel&#8217;s expertise in the chemical modification of cellulose.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an exciting collaboration with a lot of possibilities,&#8221; said Geert Hofman, General Manager of Performance Additives at AkzoNobel&#8217;s Ethylene and Sulfur Derivatives business. &#8220;It has the potential to deliver a wide range of innovative cellulose-based products resulting from sugar beet processing, addressing the need for more sustainable raw materials from a variety of industries, such as food and healthcare, as well as the coatings and construction sectors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Added Peter Nieuwenhuizen, RD&amp;I Director of AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals: &#8220;Putting agricultural side streams to use as a sustainable source of chemicals is clearly a big step forward. By working together with Royal Cosun, we aim to develop and market sustainable new cellulose-based products, which will serve as essential ingredients for our customers&#8217; applications.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As well as highlighting Royal Cosun&#8217;s focus on the bio-based economy, the partnership also underlines AkzoNobel&#8217;s Planet Possible agenda, which includes ongoing efforts to develop and introduce sustainable, bio-based products that contribute to a circular economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AkzoNobel and agro-industrial cooperative Royal Cosun have formed a new partnership to develop novel products from cellulose side streams resulting from sugar beet processing. The partnership will combine Royal Cosun&#8217;s specialist knowledge in separating and purifying agricultural process side streams with AkzoNobel&#8217;s expertise in the chemical modification of cellulose. &#8220;This is an exciting collaboration with [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5838,6162,12207],"supplier":[752,985],"class_list":["post-34928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioeconomy","tag-cellulose","tag-sugaralerts","supplier-akzonobel-corporate","supplier-royal-cosun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34928","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34928"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=34928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}