News
20-02-2020
Biorizon featured in Chemical and Engineering News
"Investor and manufacturer interest around bioaromatics is building." Journalist Alex Scott comes to this conclusion in the latest edition of Chemical & Engineering News of the American Chemical Society. The article entitled 'Investors chase sustainable aromatics - Processes using lignin, sugar, plastic waste, and more are moving out of the lab' features Biorizon's chairman of the advisory board Ludo Diels and several Biorizon community members, such as Bloom Biorenewables, BioBTX, Kaneka, and Avantium.
10-12-2019
Event Report: Biorizon Forging Ahead with Bio-Aromatics Upscaling
With over 150 visitors, the annual event of Shared Research Center Biorizon at the end of November was well-visited. The bio-aromatics event highlighted the upscaling efforts currently underway in the three research directions or ‘horizons’: the production of bio-aromatics from sugars, lignin and biomass residual flows (via pyrolysis and gasification).
07-11-2019
Call for Participation: LignoValue Pilot
Biorizon co-initiator VITO, VMH and Worley Belgium have joined forces for the design and construction of a continuous pilot plant for the depolymerization of lignin into innovative biobased aromatics in Flanders. Currently they are looking for companies/venture capitalists that want to participate and/or invest.
07-11-2019
Last Call > 6th Biorizon Annual Event on Bio-Aromatics
On November 27 and 28, Biorizon will host its 6th Annual Event in Antwerp. At this point, more than 140 participants have already registered, among whom representatives of P&G, Covestro, Clariant, SABIC, Huntsman, Solvay, Bloom Biorenewables, COSUN and AVA Biochem AG. Will you join too?
07-11-2019
New Project: ‘Doing More With Lignin’
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. Biorizon co-initiator VITO is one of the consortium partners.
11-09-2019
New Project: Bio-Aromatics4Coatings
Biorizon co-initiator TNO develops technology to convert furans into functional bio-aromatics. Recently the Bio-Aromatics4Coatings project started with a focus on coating application. Project coordinator TNO is collaborating with several key companies in the coatings supply chain to evaluate bio-MPA.
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Vacancies
Shared Research Center Biorizon has got the following vacancies, located at Biorizon's Headquarters at the Green Chemistry Campus in Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands: Director Shared Research Center Biorizon Biorizon co-initiator TNO is looking for synthetic organic chemists with (extensive) experience in scaling up current and new processes and working with process set-ups with a throughput of 1-10 kg / h. For more information and the complete job description, please contact Bastian de Bes via bastian.debes@tno.nl Please feel free to contact us to inquire if it would make sense to send an unsolicited application.
Calls for Participation
Thanks to Biorizon’s high-quality facilities, specialized knowledge, years of experience and the successful involvement of the entire bio-aromatics value chain, we manage to produce bio-aromatics continuously (on a kg/h scale). We are currently validating our continuous processes and working with industry partners toward the next stage: demonstration. This makes Shared Research Center Biorizon the most advanced and valued research program in sustainable bio-aromatics worldwide. We offer the chemical industry an excellent platform to make the transition to a circular bio-economy. Do you want to contribute to our mission to enable commercial production of bio-aromatics by 2025? Come and join us! Take a look at the Biorizon calls for participation, and reach out to our business development managers for more information.
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