B4: Better Biobased Building Blocks
22-02-2022
Biorizon scientists publish in Angewandte Chemie IE
We are proud that, once again, Biorizon’s senior scientists Marc Crockatt and Jan Kees van der Waal contributed to work recently published in the leading journal Angewandte Chemie IE. The article by Biorizon co-initiator TNO and Dr. Razvan Cioc and Prof. Dr. Pieter Bruijnincx of Utrecht University is entitled “The Interplay between Kinetics and Thermodynamics in Furan Diels-Alder Chemistry for Sustainable Chemicals Production.” It assesses the state of play in this rapidly evolving field.
17-02-2022
Revolution in the paint industry: Relement replaces petroleum with plant residues
Recently, the Dutch newspaper BNDeStem published an interview with Monique Wekking, CCO at Biorizon's spin-off company Relement. "At Relement, we are now able to convert raw material furfural, made from bagasse biomass, into a chemical compound called aromatics, a full-fledged alternative to fossil aromatics used in paint. The great thing is, it makes the paint not only bio-based, but also better in quality," Monique Wekking explains. "It improves the scratch resistance, for example."
31-01-2022
ZCORE: Greening the chemical industry with seaweed-based bio-coatings
Recently, Phyconomy published an article about Biorizon's ZCORE project that aims to to demonstrate that seaweed residues can be utilized for the production of biobased coatings (paints) with superior application properties.
17-01-2022
Bright Coatings Project: Pre-commercial demonstration of bio-aromatic MPA in a 100% sustainable alkyd coating
Biorizon’s spin-off company Relement is coordinator of the recently started Bright Coatings project. Biorizon co-initiator TNO participates as well. Objective of the project is the realization of a pre-commercial demonstration for the production and application of the ‘missing-link’ in a 100% sustainable alkyd coating application: the biobased aromatic MPA, based on locally available starting materials.
11-01-2022
VIABLE project: manufacturing bio-based epoxy resins by partially replacing BPA with lignin biomass
Biorizon co-initiator VITO coordinates the new LIFE VIABLE project that stands for ‘Valorization of lignin bIomass into competitive components grAdually replacing BPA in the formuLation of Epoxy resins’. The project aims to improve the sustainability and the environmental impact of epoxy resins manufacture by lowering the BPA content in the formulation of epoxy resins by 20 to 50%.
03-12-2021
Event Report: Scaling up bio-aromatics research and application development with the industry
It was supposed to be a physical meeting place, but the 8th Biorizon Annual Event in Rotterdam turned out differently than expected. In front of 300 online followers, but in an empty conference room, the Biorizon team (and a speaker from LEGO) presented the progress in developing value chains for bio-aromatics. This development is progressing well.
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