News & Career – Vertoro

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...

Vertoro to Pitch at European Venture Contest Final in Dusseldorf 10-11 December 2018

Benelux Venture Forum 2018 is a wrap! We had an amazing experience the past two days 50+ (inter)national investors and 40+ selected start-ups and scale-ups have engaged in various activities at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus, Brightlands Smart Services Campus, and...

The Google Android of the Biobased Economy

Vertoro believes the bio-based economy will require a platform product, being a crude oil, which can be readily transported over long distances, at low cost, and by means of existing assets (e.g., pipe lines, tankers). As is the case for any nascent boom market, the...

Biobased meets petrochemistry

Bio-phenol (e.g., from lignin) is something of a holy grail in biomass valorization. Reducing benzene content in gasoline - without compromising the octane number - is a top priority for the petrochemical industry. Our new paper in ACS Catalysis demonstrates that both...