This year’s Renewable Materials conference, a three-day event to be held from 23-25 May, will once again reflect the ongoing developments taking place in the materials and sustainability sector.
From drop-in substitutes to novel polymers, this conference will provide insight into the renewable materials solutions that are helping to advance the chemical sector’s shift from fossil-based to renewable carbon sources.
A wide range of concepts and technologies will be addressed at the conference: circularity, renewable refineries, and chemical recycling, as well as new process technologies. Technologies to produce more sustainable chemicals, building blocks, polymers, plastics and fine chemicals based on renewable carbon derived from recycling, biomass or CO2 will be explored. One in-depth session will focus on furans, FDCA and PEF, another on the biodegradation of polymers such as PHA or PLA, PBAT and PBS.
Speakers from major companies worldwide, as well as from fledgling start-ups, high-profile research and high-level politics will present and discuss a wide range of innovative solutions based on biomass, CO2 and recycling in 80 presentations (main and parallel sessions), 20 panel discussions and several expert workshops.
The conference, which will be complemented by an exhibition, is expected to attract more than 500 participants and 40 exhibitors. As well, the Renewable Materials award will be presented for the third time during the conference.
The six shortlisted candidates, nominated by a panel consisting of the conference advisory board and the sponsors, will be given the opportunity to pitch their innovations to the conference audience on the second day of the conference. The audience will then vote on three winners, who will be presented with their prize during the award ceremony that same evening. The RMC innovation award is sponsored by Covestro (Germany).
As the conference organisers point out, the Renewable Materials conference continues to grow - from its first edition as an online event to last year’s hybrid version at the Maternushaus in Cologne, it is now to take place at conference centre Rhein Sieg Forum in Siegburg, near Bonn and Cologne, Germany.