Accelerate to a green future
Green Chemistry Accelerator (GCA)
Green Chemistry Accelerator
From scale-up to market
Scaling in green chemistry takes more than technology. The Green Chemistry Accelerator is a one-year acceleration programme helping green chemistry startups strengthen their business strategies, become investment-ready and secure funding for pilot projects and demonstration plants. The programme includes multiple expert sessions throughout the year.
Alumni
Companies taking the next step toward scale-up
The alumni show which challenges the program helps accelerate: pilot and demo plants, market introduction, financing, and industrial collaboration.
DOPS Recycling Technologies
You throw household, industrial, or agricultural waste into a reactor, heat it to 1,000 degrees or more, and transform it into reusable raw materials such as syngas, carbon, minerals, and metals. With this technology, DOPS Recycling Technologies aims to enter the market.
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ETB Global
ETB Global has developed a production process to manufacture bio-butadiene from bio-ethanol. This allows for the production of an important component for various plastics and rubbers from renewable sources.
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Natuchem
Spuiwater als grondstof voor kunstmest, lijm of brandwerende middelen. Als het Sven Mommers, een van de eigenaren van Natuchem, ligt, dan wordt dat met een vriestechniek mogelijk. Het bedrijf werkt aan de eerste verwerker in Tilburg. Mommers verwacht dat deze techniek ook elders mogelijk is. Zo wordt spuiwater volledig hergebruikt.
Recell
Non-recyclable old paper and cardboard: in Europe, 20 million tons of it are burned each year. The Dutch company Recell converts this waste into sugars for bioplastics, aiming to green the chemical industry. Now that its successful demo factory has relocated to England, Recell plans to build a new facility that will be at least ten times larger.
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Relement
Relement offers a biobased alternative for a key fossil ingredient in paint, glue, and other binders. The potential is enormous. “We have calculated that we can save about 3 kilograms of CO2 per kilogram of product over the entire life cycle,” says co-founder Roger Blokland. However, there is one problem: scaling up as a chemistry startup is not that easy. How do they manage it?
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ReSolved Technologies
Plastic from electronic devices, computers, cars, chip bags, or showerheads is currently recycled only sporadically into new, clean raw materials. Start-up Resolved Technologies has found a literal solution for this: dissolving it in a solvent. Next year, a pilot factory at the Chemelot chemical complex is expected to recycle 25 kilograms of plastic per hour using this method.
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Senbis
Finding a biodegradable alternative to polyester in clothing is considered the holy grail in the fight against plastic pollution. The Dutch R&D company Senbis aims to bring such a solution to market by 2030. For the first time, artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to significantly accelerate the entire development process.
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SusPhos
Dutch wastewater is full of phosphates—a substance that is essential for life on Earth but is becoming increasingly scarce. On the other hand, phosphates pollute water and threaten biodiversity in lakes, rivers, and seas. They are found in the fertilizers that farmers use to enrich their fields and in our food. Through the ditches, runoff from the fields flows into rivers and the sea, and through our waste, phosphates from food enter the sewage system.
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Torwash
TORWASH develops several processing methods for sludge, wet mown grass, and mixed plastics, converting them into biofuels, biogas, fertilizers, and raw materials for new plastics.
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Program
Tailored support around the biggest growth barriers
Each participant works with experts and partners on a concrete plan for about 200 days. The focus is on the barriers that currently hold back scale-up and investability most.
A deep dive to identify core development goals
A tailored 200-day plan to achieve key objectives
Bi-weekly support for executing your custom plan
Expert consultations on specific development goals
Peer group sessions
Networking with key investors
Who it is for
For green chemistry companies with serious scale-up ambition
The program is designed for entrepreneurs beyond first validation who want to work deliberately on market, chain, and financing.
- Green chemistry innovation Recycling, biobased, or CCU solutions that contribute to the circular economy.
- Pilot or demo challenge The technology and market are far enough to make the next scale-up step concrete.
- Customer and chain commitment There is a need for sharper market validation, partners, or feedstock agreements.
- Financing question The company is working toward suitable financing for the next phase.
Annual cohort
Next cohort in preparation
The Accelerator works with annual cohorts. Want to know whether your company fits a future round? Get in touch and explore the possibilities.
Collaboration
This program has been developed in collaboration with
The program is supported by public and regional partners that connect financing, networks, and scale-up expertise.
