SPIRE Brokerage Event December 16, 2013 Brussels

Developing and piloting Furfural, HMF and Lignin platform technologies

We are building a unique public-private institute:

Chemelot Institute of Science & Technology (InSciTe)

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BUNDLING FORCESInSciTe 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

PHYSICAL NUCLEUS AT CHEMELOTInSciTe 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

ACADEMIC & ENTREPRENEURIAL OPEN TO OTHER PARTNERS

InSciTe performs internationally leading R&D in which top-academia and entrepreneurs work side by side – meeting and working at the physical nucleus Chemelot

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

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)

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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)

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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)

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Contact information

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Nico JanssenProgram manager Biobased Building BlocksPhone: +31-6-51544019Email:nico.janssen@dsm.comwww.chemelot-inscite.com