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Feedstock

We see new applications for old crops, such as sugar beet and potatoes, grass and top timber from the forests. All raw materials for intermediate chemicals.

Power-to-gas systems

Natural gas

Natural gas can be used to provide basic chemicals like ethylene or propylene, or it can be cracked into hydrogen and carbon dioxide. Alternatively, hydrogen produced by ‘power to gas’ systems is sometimes converted into methane.

Feedstock

Sodium Chloride

In Delfzijl, sodium chloride is mostly used to produce chlorine, which is used to create different carbon-chloride compounds, which are intermediates in organic chemistry. The conversion of sodium chloride into chlorine is energy intensive, but the production company is using green electricity of its plant.
chemical building blocks

Biomass

A number of the chemical companies in the Chemport Europe ecosystem are involved in developing biorefinery processes to turn biomass into useful chemical building blocks.

Feedstock

Green Electricity

Chemport Europe has committed itself to focusing on sustainable and greener processes and products. This includes the use of green energy for large production processes.
Feedstock

Magnesium Chloride

Next to a seam with sodium chloride, there is a seam with possibly the purest magnesium chloride on the planet. This is dissolved and pumped above ground by NedMag,
Sugars

Agricultural feedstock

Sugars are extracted from sugar beets, but through biorefinery more biomass can be turned into sugars. Starches from potatoes know many uses, partly in the chemical industry. Fermentation of biomass can produce biogas.

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Intermediate chemicals

Intermediate chemicals

Polymers and materials

Polymers and materials

Recycling

Recycling 'all kinds of plastic

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