B4: Better Biobased Building Blocks
11-03-2017
Biorizon covered by TV show Booming Brabant
Last week Shared Research Center Biorizon was covered by the Dutch TV show Booming Brabant. Scientific manager Jan Harm Urbanus and manager business development Joop Groen show how bio-aromatics can be developed from manure and sieving material from wastewater.
13-01-2017
Call for participation: equipment suppliers to work on purification technologies for aromatics
Shared Research Center Biorizon is currently setting up a new project that aims to build an infrastructure to purify aromatics; acids in particular. For this new project Biorizon is looking for equipment supply companies that are interested to participate.
08-12-2016
Event report: On track towards creating value with bio-aromatics
Enthusiasm and ambition were the key ingredients of Biorizon's Annual Event held Thursday 1 December at the Green Chemistry Campus in Bergen op Zoom. Enthusiasm on the results obtained so far, ambition regarding the challenges lying ahead. The event marked the start of ECN as Biorizon partner for the thermochemical conversion of biomass to bio-aromatics.
01-12-2016
Video of Biorizon’s Annual Event 2016
Missed our event on functional biobased aromatics? Please watch the event video.
01-12-2016
ECN brings thermochemical aromatics production to Biorizon
Today TNO, VITO and ECN signed an agreement to collaborate in the Shared Research Center Biorizon, with ECN incorporating its thermochemical research on the production of bio-aromatics within Biorizon. This research center works with industry on the technological development for the production of aromatics from biomass. Aromatics are one of the main building blocks for the chemical industry. By replacing fossil resources with biomass, Biorizon makes a significant contribution to the emergence of a sustainable economy.
01-12-2016
Brabant congratulates Biorizon on its honourable mention
The province of Noord-Brabant received an honourable mention for its bio-based innovations at the Green Chemistry Campus in Bergen op Zoom during the presentation of the AER Regional Innovation Award on 30 November. The Biorizon Waste2Aromatics project was specifically mentioned.



