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July 22, 2021

A promising start on an alternative to Haber-Bosch

The Plasma Conversion project looked at ways to identify and realise a much cleaner industrial-scale alternative to the energy-hungry Haber-Bosch process. It has taken a number of promising first steps,...
July 14, 2021

“I’m on an ammonia adventure…”

“…on a research path that is quite challenging but just as rewarding. I love the open exchanges at conferences with people from academia, industry, institutes, and government. It’s great to...
July 9, 2021

“I’m keen to develop a novel nanofiltration membrane that offers improved performance for industrial applications.”

My name is Chin Yin Leo. I hold a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Malaysia. In the last year of my studies, I started working on...
July 5, 2021

Breakthrough in search for new bio-based and non-toxic building materials

There is a strong growing demand for safe bio-based and bio-degradable binding agents. However, for a long time there were no bio-based thermoset binders available on the market. The CirBind...
June 28, 2021

“In the coming year expect to test and implement machine learning methods to distinguish different materials”

My name is Carlo Giuseppe Bertinetto and I am a researcher in ISPT’s project Towards improved circularity of polyolefin-based packaging.I believe that chemometrics, a field that combines data science with...
June 24, 2021

Join us to represent industry at the Springtij Forum

For 12 years now the Springtij Forum has been bringing together politics, government, business, knowledge institutes and societal stakeholders to contribute to making the Netherlands more sustainable. It is a...
June 24, 2021

Carbon2Value concluded successfully: synergy between steel and chemistry leads to reduced emissions

On 22 June 2021, the online final event of the Carbon2Value (C2V) programme took place. During this symposium the five year C2V project was concluded and results of pilot studies...
June 17, 2021

Press release: Dow and Shell demonstrate progress in joint technology development for lower CO2 emission crackers

€3.5 million funding secured from Dutch Government, adds new collaboration partners in development of electrified-cracking technologies Following announcement of a joint development agreement in June 2020, Dow and Shell report...
June 15, 2021

Recent developments in carbon capture technologies

What do clathrates have in store for us? There are already a number of technologies available for CO2-capture. But in order to reach a carbon neutral industry by 2050, more...
May 21, 2021

International Innovation Award for Vepa and Plantics

Hemp chair collection made from hemp fibers and thermoset bio-resin is awarded TheRenewable Material of the Year 2021 Huerth, 21 May 2021 – Furniture manufacturer Vepa and Plantics Superior Natural...
May 7, 2021

Good sorting and broad cooperation to make plastics circular

During the April 29 sessions of the Circular Plastics Conference 2021 policymakers and technology providers took the stage to formulate the opportunities to create a circular plastics value chain. The...
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May 5, 2021

Fascinating: “Soms dient zich een idee aan dat elke verwachting te boven gaat”

Via het Nationaal Programma Groningen kwam geld voor de economische ontwikkeling van de provincie beschikbaar. Een aantal mensen zag hierin direct de kans om de landbouw gereed te maken voor...

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