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SPIRE Brokerage Event December 16, 2013 Brussels . Developing and piloting Furfural , HMF and Lignin platform technologies. Chemelot Institute of Science & Technology ( InSciTe ). We are building a unique public-private institute:. BUNDLING FORCES.
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SPIRE Brokerage Event December 16, 2013 Brussels Developing and piloting Furfural, HMF and Lignin platform technologies
Chemelot Institute of Science & Technology (InSciTe) We are building a unique public-private institute: BUNDLING FORCES PHYSICAL NUCLEUS AT CHEMELOT • InSciTe has a physical nucleus at Chemelot with unique, shared R&D infrastructure and other facilities that attract founding fathers and partners to the same location • InSciTe bundles forces of four leading players in South Netherlands: an international Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, a technical university, a general university with university medical center and a science park • InSciTe is open to other parties and actively seeks partners – from academia and industry, and from all over the world – that complement the expertise of InSciTe and share its ambitions • InSciTe performs internationally leading R&D in which top-academia and entrepreneurs work side by side – meeting and working at the physical nucleus Chemelot ACADEMIC & ENTREPRENEURIAL OPEN TO OTHER PARTNERS
The Biobased Building Block program • SPIRE 2 – 2014: Adaptable industrial processes allowing the use of renewables as flexible feedstock for chemical and energy applications • Program: three market-driven pathways and decision support: • Furfural platform: conversion from hemicellulose to furfural, as well as chemical conversion of furfural towards drop-in and new biobased building blocks • HMF platform: conversion from cellulose to HMF as well as multistep conversion of HMF towards drop-in and new biobased building blocks • Lignin platform: multistep conversion of lignin towards drop-in and new biobased building blocks • Process technological disciplines/ competences: - Catalytic-chemical processing - Thermo-chemical processing - Bio-chemical processing (excl. fermentation)
Activities – Expertise The biobased pilot facility is a full service infrastructure to pilot biobased technologies and processes, open to InSciTe partners and third parties
Current Partners…. • DSM (NL) • Chemelot Campus BV (NL) • Eindhoven University of Technology (NL) • Maastricht University & Medical Centre (NL)
Looking for development Partners…. Projects in: • Furfural tree (also upward/ downward over value chain) • HMF tree (also upward/ downward over value chain) • Lignin tree (also upward/ downward over value chain)
Contact information Nico Janssen Program manager Biobased Building Blocks Phone: +31-6-51544019 Email:nico.janssen@dsm.com www.chemelot-inscite.com