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Much choice in biobased materials at Material Xperience

Herso recycled wood laminate

The 13th Material Xperience, ‘the world’s largest multisectoral materials exhibition’, will take place 13-15 March in Ahoy, Rotterdam. Tuned towards materials innovation, it will show materials in six categories: architecture, interior, fashion & workwear, product, mobility and graphic & packaging. In each category, there are many biobased materials. New biobased materials ‘Materials innovation is essential

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on: 11 February 2018

Biobased economy is progressing quite well, says Annita Westenbroek

Annita Westenbroek

‘The biobased economy might not seem to make much progress right now, because very few major developments are being announced. But behind the scenes, companies make spectacular progress, they will only announce it when they have covered it from all angles,’ according to Annita Westenbroek. Circular and biobased economy Annita Westenbroek is one of the

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on: 18 January 2016

Lignin makes a take-off across the board, says Ludo Diels (Vito)

Ludo Diels

Ludo Diels, senior researcher sustainable chemistry at Vito, the Flemish institute for research of sustainable technologies, is very positive about the future of lignin. This third major wood component (after cellulose and hemicellulose) used to be a waste product, useful at most for energy production; now, research institutes and companies develop many applications. Three R&D

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on: 17 December 2015

Connecting Industries, a nice book but with limitations

Connecting Industries

Sorry, we publish the review of this book ‘Connecting Industries’ only in Dutch.

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on: 22 January 2015

Paper and pulp industry needs biorefinery, says Michiel Adriaanse

Michiel Adriaanse. Einstein, in the background, says: 'If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.'

The paper and pulp industry calls it MIMO: Multiple Inputs, Multiple Outputs. In other words: biorefinery of various resources in order to produce multiple end products. Of which the paper and pulp sector would be just one of the clients, among which also food and feed industries, chemical industry and the energy sector. Says Michiel

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on: 24 March 2014

Energy forests are an illusion

Nature's efficiency in biomass production is too low for biomass to conquer the energy market

Biomass has a fundamental problem for use in the energy sector. There is not enough of it, and it is too expensive. Fossil industry emits 35 Gton CO2 around the globe each year. Agriculture captures 7 Gton CO2 per year. Therefore, agricultural production will never be able to cover the energy market. Other figures show

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on: 31 January 2013