New feedstocks, new companies
Meet entrepreneurs replacing fossil feedstocks with circular, biobased, and CO2-based alternatives. GCNE connects these companies with the partners needed for scale-up.
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From recycling technology to biobased building blocks: find companies working on pilots, demos, and first market applications, with the network around their scale-up.
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23 Sep 2026
Every year, the Dutch throw away 1 billion disposable diapers, and only a small percentage of that is recycled. Melvin Kizito aims to solve this problem with his startup, Alkyl Recycling. In a few years, he plans to build a factory that will clean, sterilize, and recycle one ton of diapers into plastic, cellulose, and gel.
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7 Oct 2025
Paper waste is full of calcium carbonate, a type of lime, which can still be effectively used in paint, paper, glue, rubber, or plastic. The Dutch scale-up Alucha extracts this substance from paper sludge to help large companies like Essity, AkzoNobel, Dyka, and Bostik reduce their CO2 emissions and become more circular. The construction of a new demo plant can quickly commence once the company secures its funding completely.
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Explore companies developing new feedstocks, processes, and materials for chemistry without a fossil base.
Green Chemistry Accelerator
In the Green Chemistry Accelerator, scale-ups work deliberately on customer commitment, financing, chain partners, and market adoption.
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The alumni show the questions companies face in this phase: pilot and demo plants, customer commitment, financing, and industrial collaboration.
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Meet the gamechangers bringing green chemistry to market, alongside the chemistry clusters, provinces, regional development agencies, investors, knowledge institutes, and support organisations that make their scale-up possible.
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