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Malaysian Oil Palm Biomass Center established

Kuala Lumpur - Today Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced the launch of the National Biomass Strategy at the BIO Malaysia Conference and Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur. One of the outcomes is setting up an international Oil Palm Biomass Center (OPBC). Through OPBC, Malaysia aims to create economic value and to reduce Green House Gas emissions.

Greentech House Competition launched by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and BE-Basic

This week, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and BE-Basic launched the Greentech House Competition at UTM's International Campus in Kuala Lumpur in the presence of several hundred students from architecture, interior design, planning, biotechnology, chemical engineering and other disciplines.

The competition aims to increase awareness for sustainable building and living and to facilitate innovation in building materials. Multidisciplinary student teams are invited to design "their...

Essent joins BE-Basic

Delft, The Netherlands – energy supplier Essent has joined BE-Basic as a full consortium party. Within BE-Basic Essent is going to look at the availability and accessibility of sustainable biomass as a fuel for green energy production. In addition BE-Basic and Essent will collaborate on the development of widely accepted certification of new biomass.

BE-Basic and FAPESP issue call for proposals

BE-Basic and The State of São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP (Brazil), issue a Joint Call for Proposals and invite interested researchers within BE-Basic to submit research proposals.

Purac investigates participation in Bioprocess Pilot Facility

CSM is investigating the participation of its subsidiary Purac in a multi-purpose Bioprocess Pilot Facility (BPF) in a consortium of a number of industry partners and universities, including DSM and Delft University of Technology.

Green chemicals from sustainable Malaysian palm waste

DELFT/KUALA LUMPUR - The Netherlands and Malaysia will work closely to promote the bio-based economy. The BE-Basic consortium – coordinated by TU Delft – and the Malaysian Prime Minister Dato Sri Najib Tun Razak’s innovation unit UNIK are signing a cooperation agreement today in Kuala Lumpur in order to establish a consortium in Malaysia, following the Dutch BE-Basic model. This consortium, the Oil Palm Biomass Consortium (OPBC), will focus on the use of palm waste as a raw material for the...

BE-Basic Bioprocess Pilot Facility makes sustainable economy possible

Scaling up from laboratory to industrial scale presents a bottleneck when it comes to converting biobased residues such as agricultural waste into raw materials for building materials, chemical and pharmaceutical products and biofuels. The European Regional Development Fund, the Ministries of Agriculture, Nature & Food Quality and Economic Affairs, the Province of South Holland and the Municipalities of Rotterdam, Delft and The Hague, knowledge institutions and industry have planned a mutual...

BE-Basic partners sign Consortium Agreement

On the 18th of February 2010, representatives of BE-Basic partner organisations have signed the BE-Basic Consortium Agreement in "De Glazen Zaal" in The Hague. Minister van der Hoeven of Economic Affairs placed the first Bio-based building block to officially start the BE-Basic consortium.

Biotech sector joins forces for bio-based economy

As of 1 January 2010, knowledge institutes, the Dutch government and industry are to cooperate more intensively and at international level to speed up the introduction of the bio-based economy, an economy based on renewable sources. By placing the emphasis on scale-up research, an open innovation model and a proactive role for the financial sector, the BE-Basic consortium aims to stimulate innovation which will lead to accelerated introduction. TU Delft is coordinating the new initiative that...