Category: Projects

Vacature @Circular Organics: Medewerkers Research & Productie Insectenkweek gezocht

Posted on by Nick Verdonck

Circular Organics, vroeger Millibeter, is een snelgroeiend bedrijf dat onderzoek voert naar de opwaardering van resstromen (“afval”) met larven van de zwarte wapenvlieg. Ze zoeken een medewerker (m/v) die de verwerking van deze reststromen (“bioconversie”) mee in goede banen kan leiden.

Je wordt ingezet in een kleinschalige productieomgeving. Het werk omvat het klaarmaken van het ‘larven-menu’, het voeren en het oogsten van de larven op het einde van de voedingscyclus, het algemeen onderhoud en verzorging van de productieruimtes en insecten. Ook werk je mee aan de correcte uitvoering van wetenschappelijke testen en experimenten.

Om de volledige vacature te bekijken klik hier: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6512338661336584192/

Job opportunity at B4Plastics

Posted on by Nick Verdonck

Bioplastics Developer

Innovative engineer with a passion for chemistry and sustainability

  • Location: Maasmechelen
  • Company: B4Plastics
  • Referencenumber: BE-04925

The position

Responsibilities and tasks

  • You co-develop new products and processes
  • You operate production equipment, mainly high-tech pilot plants
  • You define the production process, equipment and process parameters
  • You use your magic to come up with new ideas and to deliver successful prototypes
  • You think about new solutions, product improvements in the field of eco-plastics
  • You contribute your knowledge from the first idea till the delivery of prototypes and upscaling towards final production phase

Your skills

  • Master’s degree in Engineering: e.g. (Polymer) Chemistry, Electro-mechanics
  • Strong affinity with the plastics industry (specialty monomers and polymers) and eager to evolve in the business of ecological plastics
  • Preferably 3+ years of experience with high-tech piloting and production equipment
  • Ambition to build new products and processes from kg to ton scale
  • Your differentiating can-do mentality gives a daily boost in your pioneering role
  • You are an excellent finisher of B4plastics’ world-new projects and products

What we offer

  • Professional and above-average innovative environment
  • Projects with leading global partners targeting world-new products
  • Your development for long term employment
  • A pioneering role for you, which will substantially impact the plastics industry

We look forward to hearing from you

We are working in collaboration with Mercuri Urval, specialists in Executive Search, Professional Recruitment and Talent Advisory.

Please send your CV and cover letter through www.mercuriurval.com (ref.no. BE-04925). For additional information please contact Michael Leliaert or Ellen Budna by phone at +32 11 287828.

https://www.mercuriurval.com/global/Opportunity/?jobadid=57637&refno=BE-04925

InTiCosm

Posted on by Merten De Kinderen

Innovative Trends in Cosmetics

InTiCosm is an interregional project between Flanders, France and Wallonia that aims to investigate the development of biosourced materials and their use in the field of cosmetic formulation. These compounds, called “green cargo ships”, are made from molecules obtained primarily from biorefineries in the Franco-Belgian region, respecting the principles of green chemistry as much as possible (in particular by reducing the use of solvents and the number of synthesis steps). The molecules obtained are used in cosmetic formulations. Specific studies are carried out to select the most efficient and least expensive cargoes, which can then be tested with manufacturers in the cross-border region.

The project also seeks to strengthen the cross-border cooperation between the bio-economy sectors of northern France, Wallonia and Flanders. This aim is reflected by the broad project consortium, which includes partners from all three regions.

More info about the project can be found on the VITO website (in Dutch).

Project Details
Project type: INTERREG
Duration: 01/01/2019 – 31/12/2022
Total budget: €2.207.229,65
Subsidy: €1.103.614,80
Project Partners

Job opportunity at Arteco

Posted on by Nick Verdonck

Arteco develops and manufactures quality antifreeze coolants and heat transfer fluids for automotive and industrial applications. They offer innovative, competitive and efficient aqueous solutions to provide optimised thermal heat transfer and corrosion protection for your cooling system.

For their division in Ghent, Arteco is looking for a product marketing manager and a development chemist.

See the full job description for more information:

https://www.arteco-coolants.com/en/careers/product-marketing-manager

https://www.arteco-coolants.com/en/careers/development-chemist

PVCircular

Posted on by Merten De Kinderen

PVC Fibreglass Sidestream Valorisation and Development of Circular Products

The PVCircular project will set up a cross-sector symbiotic relationship between companies with different end applications to add value to currently unused fibreglass/PVC waste streams by recycling internally and externally. In this way, all the companies will strive towards a more circular business model.

More information about this project will soon be provided on this page.

Project Details
Project type: O&O
Approved on: 13/12/2018
Duration: 1/01/2019 – 31/12/2020
Total budget: €1.597.524
Subsidy: €638.857
Project Partners

EASiCHEM

Posted on by Merten De Kinderen

Efficient Affinity Separations for Chemical Applications

The EASiCHEM project sets out to tackle the limitations of traditional affinity separation (AS) technology, by developing more efficient, and/or more sustainable AS processes. It is focusing on two promising, energy-poor liquid separation technologies: membrane-based AS processes and continuous chromatography.

More information about this project will soon be provided on this page.

Project Details
Project type: SBO
Approved on: 13/12/2018
Duration: 1/06/2019 – 31/05/2023
Total budget: €2.724.093
Subsidy: €2.724.093
Project Partners

AppliSurf

Posted on by Nick Verdonck

Screening the Application Potential of a Yeast-Based Biosurfactant Portfolio

Surfactants are performance molecules that intervene in nearly every product and aspect of human daily life with a global turnover of $31 billion in 2016. Despite the efforts to move towards a bio-based economy, only 4% of the surfactant market is 100% bio-based (e.g. APGs and MESs). An even smaller part (<0.1 %) of the market is not only 100% bio-based, but also produced through biological processes, such as microbial, plant-based and/or enzymatic processes. Although a lot of companies are striving towards such sustainable solutions, current limitations blocking valorisation of such technologies are the higher production costs as well as the limited structural variability and subsequent lack of physicochemical (and biological) properties.

The AppliSurf project will apply a combination of genetic modification, fermentation development/optimization and green chemistry to enable commercial production of an innovative and broad portfolio of biosurfactant structures at an acceptable cost. The unique properties of these ‘new-to-market’ biosurfactants will be identified by high throughput screening for industrially relevant properties (foaming, emulsification, wetting, gelling, antimicrobial properties, etc.). Subsequent structure-function modeling of this family of compounds will enable the prediction of the properties of compounds not included in the screen. The latter will maximize the output of the project, also after the projects’ end. Scale-up of the optimized production processes will generate samples for in-house evaluation by the members of the industrial user group.

AppliSurf Industry User Group
The project partners are looking for companies that wish to be involved in the user group of this VIS project. The user group is open to all interested companies, even outside Flanders. Interested companies can contact Catalisti at info@catalisti.be for more information.

Project Details
Project type: VIS
Approved on: 13/12/2017
Duration: 31/08/2018 – 31/08/2020
Total budget: €624.827
Subsidy: €499.853
Project Partners

Hybrid Moulds

Posted on by Merten De Kinderen

Generic Method for Hybrid Injection Mould Development for Short-Run Production Series

The Hybrid Moulds project aims to develop a versatile and industry-competitive method for the manufacturing of hybrid injection moulds for short-run injection moulding production series using additive manufacturing (AM) technology. Hybrid moulds are a combination of a conventional mould frame and mould making strategy integrated with core and cavity produced via technologies such as Additive Manufacturing. The main project output will result in a production method that combines reduced lead-times and high quality (comparable to an injection moulded part with a classic mould) output of the final injection moulded parts.

Enabling quick innovation
The versatility targeted by the Hybrid Moulds project was on full display when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. In response to the pandemic, face masks became mandatory at many places. Wearing a mask for an extended period of time resulted in complaints about a sort of “cutting feeling” behind poeple’s ears. UGent, one of the partners in the Hybrid Moulds project, started looking for ways to avoid this pain. The solution? Earbuddies! Learn more about this innovative tool, and its link with the Hybrid Moulds project by watching the video below.

Project Details
Project type: ICON
Approved on: 24/10/2018
Duration: 01/01/2019 – 31/12/2020
Total budget: €2.216.856
Subsidy: €1.435.700
Project Partners

Contact
Questions about this project? Please contact catalyst Luc Van Ginneken (lvanginneken@catalisti.be).

Job opportunity at Lawter Belgium

Posted on by Nick Verdonck

Lawter, a leading supplier to the graphic arts, adhesives, specialty coatings, aroma chemicals and synthetic rubber industries is looking for an Polymer Chemist to join the Innovation team to pioneer new technologies, research and develop new products, convert business development opportunities into new products and prototype innovations to drive long term business growth.  The scope of the Innovation organization includes:
 1) leveraging advantaged rosin availability and usage in new markets
2) the development of new markets, new technologies or new value offerings to deliver exceptional and sustainable growth.

See the full job description for more information: Job description: Innovation Group Chemistry
If you are interested in this opportunity please contact: Eva.ramos@lawter.com

Brainstormmeetings: Voedingsverpakkingen voor de toekomst

Posted on by Nick Verdonck

In 2030 zullen alle voedselverpakkingen circulair moeten zijn en ook aan de snelle evolutie van digitalisatie en personalisatie kunnen we niet voorbijgaan. Pack4Food en de speerpuntclusters Flanders’ FOOD (voeding), VIL (logistiek), SIM (nieuwe materialen) en Catalisti (chemie en kunststoffen) werken sinds september aan een Roadmap rond de voedselverpakkingen voor de toekomst. Deze Roadmap moet de onderzoekslijnen uitzetten voor de komende jaren (2018-2030) om samen met de industrie, overheids- en kennisinstellingen geavanceerde verpakkingen te ontwikkelen, gefocust op de noden van de toekomst.

Om deze Roadmap vorm te geven, willen we de specifieke noden, barrières & uitdagingen van bedrijven via interactieve brainstormsessies in kaart brengen om zo cross-sectorale opportuniteiten te identificeren. Hierbij nodigen we jullie vriendelijk uit om deel te nemen aan 1 of meerdere brainstormmeetings al naargelang uw interesse.

Data van de brainstormmeetings:

·        Algemene Brainstorm Meeting: maandag 15 okt, 10-15u, Living Tomorrow, Indringingsweg 1, 1800 Vilvoorde

·        Thematische Brainstorm Meeting “Smart & Personalised” packaging: maandag 5 nov, 9-17.30u, TBD

·        Thematische Brainstorm Meeting “Extra thema”*: vrijdag 16 nov, 9-13u, TBD

·        Thematische Brainstorm Meeting “Circular” packaging: donderdag 29 nov, 11-15.30u, Huis van de voeding, Spanjestraat 141, 8800 Roeselare

*Extra thema: op basis van de uitkomst van de algemene brainstorm meeting bestaat de kans dat er nog extra thema’s geïdentificeerd wordt. Deze zouden dan aan bod komen op 16 nov.

Een meer gedetailleerde agenda met locatie volgt nog naar de ingeschreven bedrijven.

Gelieve zo snel mogelijk jullie deelname met het aantal personen te confirmeren via de inschrijvingsmodule: https://goo.gl/forms/bykgzqpZSAdhgAtK2

Indien u nog vragen heeft of meer inlichtingen wil over dit project, aarzel niet Pack4Food of één van de speerpuntclusters te contacteren!

We hopen op jullie massale belangstelling en deelname!