Net­work Waste2Value

Inten­tion:
The network’s focus is on using resid­ual mater­i­al and waste flows from forestry and agri­cul­ture, food pro­cessing or pulp and paper industry, among oth­ers. From these flows, sec­ond­ary plant mater­i­als can be gen­er­ated, such as phen­olic bonds, terpenes, hydroxyl fatty acids or wax to pro­duce spe­cialty and basic chem­ic­als. Provided that these chem­ic­als are pro­duced, the cooper­a­tion part­ners will

• either pro­cess them to innov­at­ive and high-qual­ity products, 
• and/​or add them to already exist­ing products as addit­ives for improved characteristics

The project’s approach is to sub­sti­tute crude oil-based products with regrow­ing feed­stock and pro­duce products that still have prop­er­ties of equal qual­ity, if not of high­er qual­ity than ​“crude oil products”. This pro­ject fosters the trans­fer from a fossil-based to a more bio-based society. 

R&D‑Partners:
ANIM­OX, Bay­erischer Müller­bund, Birken, Dr. Straet­mans Chemische Produkte, TH Köln Uni­ver­sity of Applied Sci­ences, Fraunhofer BioCat, Fraunhofer IVV, Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Fritzmei­er Umwelt­tech­nik, Fuchs Schmi­er­stoffe, Kun­st­mühle Simon Kraus, N‑Zyme BioTec, Pilot Pflan­zenöl­tech­no­lo­gie Mag­de­burg, provenion, Rems­gold-Chemie, Sen­si­ent Col­ors Europe, Tech­nis­che Uni­versität — Biocata­lys­is, TU Munich — Micro­bi­o­logy, Uni­versität Bayreuth — Inor­gan­ic Chem­istry II, Uni­versität Leipzig — Chem­ic­al Tech­no­logy, UPM, VERMOP

Fund­ing:
ZIM-cooper­a­tion net­work (ZIM-KN)

Dur­a­tion:
Phase I: 01.01.2015 – 31.12.2015
Phase II: 01.01.2016 – 31.12.2017
Self-sus­tained