Crosscampus partnership leads to consumer products from green raw materials

The science institute Chemelot InSciTe, located at the Brightlands Campus Geleen and Bio Treat Center (BTC), located at the Brightlands Campus Venlo have entered into a cross-campus partnership in 2018. The reason is to jointly develop products with the help of green raw materials.

Logical collaboration

In an interview, Ben Rooijackers of BTC and Marijn Rijkers of InSciTe explain why green raw materials are so important and what their future goals are. "BTC is active in pre-processing biomass into a feedstock for the circular economy," says Rooijackers. For example, BTC saw a value in Champost, the lingine-rich residue after the mushroom harvest. InSciTe is conducting research on lignin applications. That's why they submitted an application together to research the success rate of this new circular chain.

From green raw material to product

Products that people normally throw away or recycle or residual streams from forestry and the agricultural sector can often be used for renewable raw materials. "We see the residual streams as 'green raw material,'" Rijkers said. With this green feedstock, InSciTe and BTC will make a consumer product through chemistry. "That is really unique and also indicates the added value of this partnership." "Our goal is to really make something useful out of those residual streams instead of it ending up in the waste incinerators and being made into energy," Rooijackers says.

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