News – Vertoro

“WE ARE NOT INNOVATIVE AT ALL”

The European Commission has labeled the use of wood in power plants as sustainable. But we can do better. By extracting the liquid lignin, the energy yield is much higher and it is of higher value to the petrochemical industry. Want to know why? [Article in Dutch]

Vertoro joins the IDEALFUEL project to develop new production methods for sustainable marine fuels

On 1 May 2020 the IDEALFUEL project was launched. An EU-funded research and innovation action, IDEAFUEL aims to develop new production methods for sustainable marine fuels to replace heavy fuel oils (HFOs) in shipping. Sailing towards the goal of developing an...

Vertoro will be one of the largest producers of commercially available lignin-based products

Sekab and Vertoro to build large-scale demonstration plant to produce a new platform for sustainable fuels, chemicals, and materials. Read more: sekab.com/en/press-releases/

Vertoro joins CHAPLIN programm

The cooperation aims to stimulate the development and commercialisation of lignin-containing asphalt, thereby contributing to the greening of the road construction industry and thus reducing CO2. Read more: biobaseddelta.nl

Goldilocks will be presented on the Blue Tulip Awards 2020

The Blue Tulip Awards is a year-round ecosystem-driven program aiming to accelerate innovators, build powerful collaborations, and drive breakthrough innovation. Goldilocks will be presented at the Blue Tulip Awards 2020. Read more: Presenting the Blue Tulip Awards...

Vertoro CBO Dannie van Osch speaks at TEDx Venlo

A vast amount of CO 2 is emitted by fossil oil resources, which is one of the factors causing a global climate change. Forming an oil from natural components can be considered as CO 2 neutral. Especially lignin can be of interest for this, since it is currently seen...

Vertoro to speak at Waste2Materials conference

We are very proud to be one of the companies to present at this year's Waste2Materials conference on Tuesday May 28th at the Worldhotel Wings in Rotterdam. The conference will highlight the need for value chains chains to become more sustainable and propose some steps...

Vertoro feature story for Worldwide Business with Kathy Ireland®

https://youtu.be/JFdxihcZCKU Our feature story for Worldwide Business with kathy ireland® is scheduled to air on Fox Business Network as sponsored content and Bloomberg International! The video includes scenes shot with members of our team and various stakeholders in...

Vertoro CTO, Panos Kouris, selected as one of 50 Young European Talents

YET 2018 actively looked for fifty top talents (ten from each country). These talents must be between the ages of 18 to 35 and must have demonstrated their capabilities (doctoral degree, special recognitions, excellent results or scientific successes, etc.) in their...

Why more is less when processing biomass in remote bio-refineries

In our new study, just published in "Topics in Catalysis", we demonstrated why the techno-economics of complex chemistry, while promising in the lab, turned out to be poorer than expected when designing for a demo or commercial scale plant. As a result, we decided to...