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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 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 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 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 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 OPEN TO OTHER PARTNERS 2 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) 3 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) 5 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) 6 Contact information Nico Janssen Program manager Biobased Building Blocks Phone: +31-6-51544019 Email:[email protected] www.chemelot-inscite.com 7