B4: Better Biobased Building Blocks
02-06-2022
Biorizon spin-off Relement raises 1 million Euro seed round to scale-up renewable coating ingredient
Biorizon spin-off Relement announces closing of its seed financing round by adding Brabant Startup Fonds (BSF), the Brabant Development Agency (BOM) and TNO as early investors. Smart Industries Fund, managed by Innovation Industries, already invested into Relement last year. In addition, Rabobank has recently provided an Innovation Loan to Relement. The total investment amount adds up to 1 million Euro.
15-03-2022
Flemish Prime Minister visits VITO’s LignoValue Pilot
Recently, Flemish Prime Minister Jan Jambon paid a working visit to Biorizon co-initiator VITO. During a guided tour, the guests were presented with a number of projects that have outgrown the test tube, among which the LignoValue Pilot, a pilot installation that can produce more than 100 kg of innovative bio-aromatics a day from lignin.
22-02-2022
Biorizon scientists publish in Angewandte Chemie IE
We are proud that, once again, Biorizon’s senior scientists Marc Crockatt and Jan Kees van der Waal contributed to work recently published in the leading journal Angewandte Chemie IE. The article by Biorizon co-initiator TNO and Dr. Razvan Cioc and Prof. Dr. Pieter Bruijnincx of Utrecht University is entitled “The Interplay between Kinetics and Thermodynamics in Furan Diels-Alder Chemistry for Sustainable Chemicals Production.” It assesses the state of play in this rapidly evolving field.
17-02-2022
Revolution in the paint industry: Relement replaces petroleum with plant residues
Recently, the Dutch newspaper BNDeStem published an interview with Monique Wekking, CCO at Biorizon's spin-off company Relement. "At Relement, we are now able to convert raw material furfural, made from bagasse biomass, into a chemical compound called aromatics, a full-fledged alternative to fossil aromatics used in paint. The great thing is, it makes the paint not only bio-based, but also better in quality," Monique Wekking explains. "It improves the scratch resistance, for example."
31-01-2022
ZCORE: Greening the chemical industry with seaweed-based bio-coatings
Recently, Phyconomy published an article about Biorizon's ZCORE project that aims to to demonstrate that seaweed residues can be utilized for the production of biobased coatings (paints) with superior application properties.
17-01-2022
Bright Coatings Project: Pre-commercial demonstration of bio-aromatic MPA in a 100% sustainable alkyd coating
Biorizon’s spin-off company Relement is coordinator of the recently started Bright Coatings project. Biorizon co-initiator TNO participates as well. Objective of the project is the realization of a pre-commercial demonstration for the production and application of the ‘missing-link’ in a 100% sustainable alkyd coating application: the biobased aromatic MPA, based on locally available starting materials.
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