Projects

Through our collaborative innovation projects involving industrial and academic partners, we actively contribute and give rise to a sustainable and competitive chemicals and plastics industry in Flanders. Our projects fit into an overarching Innovation Agenda, which includes four specific Innovation Programs. Click on the projects and take a deeper dive.

Projects

Innovation Programme
Project status
Project type
Publication date

MATTER

Mechanical and Thermochemical Recycling of Mixed Plastic Waste.

SweetEst

Overcoming the current hurdles in the state of the art for use of sugar esters in applications like feed additive, surfactant in Personal & Home Care and gelling agent in industrial products. 

AppliSurf

Screening the Application Potential of a Yeast-Based Biosurfactant Portfolio

SPICY

Sugar-based chemicals and Polymers through Innovative Chemocatalysis and engineered Yeast.

ATOL

Advanced Tailored Oligosaccharides.

PIF

PIF = Particles in Flow. 

BAFTA

Bio-Aromatics Feedstock and Technology Assessment

CO2PERATE

All Renewable CCU Based on Formic Acid Integrated in an Industrial Microgrid.

DIGICHEM

Innovation plan I4.0: route to a digitised chemical sector in Flanders

RECYCOAT

Recycling of coated materials.

CAPRA

Upgrading steel mill off gas to caproic acid and derivatives using anaerobic technology.

SuMEMS

Sustainable Membrane Technology-Based Solutions for Solvent-Rich Wastewater Treatment.

PROFIT

Plastic Recuperation and valOrisation FIT for use.

ATOM 2

Towards an Industrial Platform for Flow Chemistry in Flanders.

EnzymASE 1

Enzymes for Added Sustainability and Efficiency
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