B4: Better Biobased Building Blocks
28-05-2014
Lignin Poised to Become Renewable Alternative to Petrochemical Feedstocks
According to growth strategy firm Frost & Sullivan, the industry is just beginning to scratch the surface of lignin's potential: It could become the main renewable, aromatic resource for the chemical industry and could also allow petrochemists to secure an alternative, renewable source of raw material.
22-05-2014
Bio-based Chemicals Getting Boost from Shale Gas Boom in North America
Long used as starting materials for shampoos and detergents, bio-based chemicals now attracting interest as drop-in replacements for petroleum-based commodity chemicals.
20-05-2014
Successful Holland Biotech Pavilion at BIO World Congress
During last weeks BIO world congress on Industrial Biotechnology in Philadelphia Biorizon presented itself in the Holland Pavilion.
19-05-2014
Bio Innovation Growth megaCluster BIG-C launched
This morning, 10 leading public-private organisations in biobased innovation of North Rhein Westphalia, The Netherlands and Flanders launched BIG-C as the integrating organisation for current and future biobased initiatives. The event was attended by over 150 industrialists, scientists and politicians from this region.
15-05-2014
Sweden shows interest in Biorizon
This month Ludo Diels, Jan Harm Urbanus, Dennis van der Pas and Wouter van der Laak from Biorizon were invited to go to Sweden to discuss the opportunities for the Swedish industry to participate in Biorizon >> The Way to Aromatics. The meeting proved to be very successful: a next meeting in August is already planned to discuss the opportunities to work together in more detail.
15-05-2014
Biobased Delta teams up with Bioindustrial Innovation Canada
South-western Netherlands-based Biobased Delta Foundation has agreed to work closely with the Canadian sustainable chemistry alliance Bioindustrial Innovation Canada. Together they aim to accelerate the international commercialization of advanced new technologies. Biorizon is one of the flagships of the Biobased Delta.
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