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Catalisti will take over the FISCH tradition of organising Open Consortium Meetings on the Catalisti Innovation Programs. These Open Consortium Meetings are the ideal place to find new innovation opportunities and partners or to learn about upcoming project ideas. On Wednesday April 19th Catalisti organises the next Open Consortium Meeting, this time for the Innovation Programs Process Intensification and Sidestream Valorisation. Preliminary program: 12h Welcome Lunch 13h Introduction (Catalisti) 13h15 Circular Economy (Jiska Verhulst, Vlaanderen Circulair) 13h40 Results “Study of possible support policy concerning new uses of CO2 as feedstock/raw material” (Linsey Garcia-Gonzalez, VITO) 14h15 Overview of project pitches (Catalisti)

Date:  04 May 2017 14:00 - 17:00 Location: Centexbel/VKC - Kortrijk Kunststofmaterialen zijn niet meer weg te denken uit ons dagelijks leven. Het zijn de meest efficiënte en veelzijdige materialen die er bestaan en die voldoen aan de allerhoogste technologische vereisten. Dankzij hun plastische vervormbaarheid kunnen kunststoffen heel complexe vormen aannemen. Tijdens de labtour worden verschillende kunststofverwerkingstechnieken gedemonstreerd, zoals spuitgieten, extrusie, compression moulding en thermovormen. en geven we meer uitleg over de karakterisatie van kunststoffen. Kunststoffen? Alles kan! Kom daarom de unieke mogelijkheden van kunststoffen ontdekken tijdens deze labtour. Programma Inleiding op de labtour Bezoek van de labs: productiehal met

The BioBase4SME project, co-financed by Europe’s Interreg NWE programme, is now providing start-up companies working in the bioeconomy with €7,000 worth of specialist training, fully funded by the project. An intensive, week-long Innovation Biocamp will give these companies the tools they need to commercialise their idea and grow their company. The training culminates in a live pitch to investors. Start-up and spin-out, biobased companies based in the Interreg North West Europe area are encouraged to apply for their place on the Innovation Biocamp, which will take place in Yorkshire, UK from 23-28th July, 2017. The course includes a series of

Wij nodigen u graag uit deel te nemen op 20 April aan de Algemene Vergadering van Federplast.be, met als centraal thema “Sustainability & Competitiveness a Win – Win”   Van 13u tot 15u00 is er het gesloten, statutaire gedeelte dat enkel voor Federplast.be leden toegankelijk is. Wenst u een vooruitblik op de polymeerprijzen voor 2017? Wenst u te weten wat onze sector te wachten staat? Dan is het gesloten deel onmisbaar voor u als Belgische kunststofverwerker. Daarna, om 15u30, start het open publieke deel. Tijdens dit open deel gaan we na of en hoe “sustainability” kan uitgroeien tot een nieuwe

23.03.2017: Zensor: beter voorkomen dan genezen met sensoren in productie-installaties Met een netwerk van sensoren en geavanceerde analysetechnieken problemen als corrosie, scheurtjes en vermoeiing in structuren tijdig opsporen, zodat productiestilstanden vermeden kunnen worden. Zensor, een spin-off van de VUB, brengt de ervaring en knowhow die het opdeed in het bewaken van de integriteit van infrastructuurprojecten naar de productie-installaties in de chemie en petrochemie. “Bedrijven zijn erg goed in het optimaliseren van hun processen en installaties, maar over het beheer van de structuren waarin die zijn ingebed, heeft men veel minder kennis”, zegt Yves Van Ingelgem, CEO van Zensor. “Het bewaken

Dear, Are you a company innovating in the biobased economy? Are you a policy maker or advisor creating jobs by shaping a sustainable future? Watch the brand new SmartPilots video and find out how collaborating with a pilot facility can help companies drop their financial risk and time to market significantly. http://www.interregeurope.eu/smartpilots/news/news-article/764/smartpilots-video-for-pilot-facility-users/ SmartPilots in an Interreg Europe project coordinated by Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant. SmartPilots brings together the six leading pilot facilities for industrial biotechnology and the bioeconomy in Europe and their respective regions with the aim to improve policies in support of Shared Pilot Facilities and their users.

Biosurfactants have the potential to be used in a wide variety of applications. Drivers to use biosurfactants are to increase the biobased content of the end-product, biodegradability, low ecotoxicity, to replace current substances which are to be banned from market, or their beneficial activity in the end application. They are not only known because of their tensio-active function, but also for its anti-microbial activity. This event is organized in the frame of the SuperBIO project (www.h2020-SuperBIO.eu), an H2020 innovation project coordinated by Flanders Biobased Valley. This event will give an overview of new biosurfactants and their usage, and companies are

The call 2017 of the M-ERA.NET 2 action is now open and the final date for the submission of a pre-proposal is June 13th 2017, 12:00 pm (noon). You can find the necessary information and documents on the site: https://m-era.net/joint-calls/joint-call-2017 Submissions are expected about the following topics as described in the workprogram of the call: Integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) Innovative surfaces, coatings and interfaces High performance composites Multifunctional materials New strategies for advanced material-based technologies in health applications Materials for additive manufacturing More than 30 supporting agencies from more than 25 different countries are participating in this call with

Society often considers the use of plastics as non-sustainable since many synthetic materials can hardly be recycled today. This is mostly the case for plastics used for structural applications such as robust rubber objects and hard, lightweight components for electric vehicles, wind turbines and airborne applications. The chemical composition of these materials is much stronger than for normal plastics, which results in non-processability towards other materials after use. An international team of researchers, led by professors Filip Du Prez, Johan Winne (Ghent University) and Ludwik Leibler (Paris, EPSCI), elaborated a strategy to control the properties of a recently identified class

Biorizon Innovation and upscaling of Renewable Aromatics Technology (BIO-Hart) For the next three years 10 partners will be working on the production and scale-up of aromatic chemicals from biomass in the interregional BIO-HArT project. The BIO-HArT project is the next step in the industry-driven roadmap of Biorizon. The project has three objectives: Develop optimised procedures for the chemical reactions and the conversion and separation processes. Realisation of generic and multi-purpose process setups for three technologies (wood, sugars and lignin to aromatics). Manufacturing of test samples of sugars, lignin, furans, alkylphenols, mono-, di- and tri-acids, functionalised phenols and other aromatic compounds.