06 June 2024

09:00

Programme start for facility tour registrants at Axis (building #118)

09:00 - 09:20

Walk-in & registration at Axis (building #118) with coffee/tea

09:20 - 09:35

Welcome & opening at Axis by Edwin Hamoen, Programme Manager Nature Based Materials - Wageningen University & Research

09:35 - 09:55

Tour Biobased Products Innovation Plant 

09:55 - 10:30

Tour Food Hall and afterwards Campus walk to Omnia

10:00

Programme start general at Omnia (building #105)

10:00 - 10:30

Walk-in & registration at Omnia (building #105) with coffee/tea

10:30 - 12:00

Session 1

10:30 - 10:45

Welcome & Opening of the symposium by Gerda Feunekes - Managing Director Agrotechnology & Food Sciences Group (Wageningen University & Research)

10:45 - 11:30

Keynote lecture by Jacqueline Vaessen - Chair ChemistryNL (boegbeeld Topsector Chemie)

11:30 - 12:00

Presentation by Mark Smit - Waterschap Rijn & IJssel (WRIJ) - about: Kaumera: Bacterial EPS from wastewater to market application

12:00 - 13:00

LUNCH BREAK

13:00 - 13:30

Presentation by Michael Franzke - Ashland - about: What sustainability means today for a personal care ingredient supplier; the balance between sustainabillty and performance

13:00 - 14:30

Session 2

13:30 - 14:00

Presentation by Ana Morao - Corbion - about: Sustainability of biobased materials

14:00 - 14:30

Presentation by Evelien Maaskant - Wageningen University & Research - about: Highlights of recent developments in biobased building blocks and polymers

14:30 - 15:00

COFFEE BREAK

15:00 - 15:30

Presentation by Willem Elsinga - Elsinga Beleidsplanning en Innovatie BV - about: Potential of municipal Kitchen- and Garden waste as a raw material for producing fatty acids for animal feeds

15:00 - 16:15

Session 3

15:30 - 15:45

Presentation by Peter Geerdink - Wageningen University & Research - about: Intrinsic – Integrated sustainable processing of oil and functional protein from oilseeds

15:45 - 16:00

Presentation by Peter Geerdink - Wageningen University & Research - about: Biomass characterisation and valorisation

16:00 - 16:15

Questions & closing remarks by moderator

16:15

NETWORKING DRINKS