With over 150 visitors, Biorizon Shared Research Centre’s annual event in Antwerp at the end of November was well-visited. The bio-aromatics event highlighted the upscaling efforts currently underway in the three research directions or ‘horizons’: the production of bio-aromatics from sugars, lignin and biomass residual flows (via pyrolysis and gasification).

If the result of three years of Borderless Biobased Education (BBE) had to be summed up in a single word it would be ‘cooperation’. This was evident during the BBE concluding conference in Dordrecht, The Netherlands on 10 October.

In the six years of its existence, the Biorizon Shared Research Centre has made important steps in its research into functional bio-aromatics. Promising research lines are coming from the laboratory and are in the meantime ready for, or already in the process of upscaling. This is why upscaling is the central theme of the sixth Biorizon Event. This year, it will take place in Antwerp on 27 and 28 November, with closed project meetings and a networking dinner on 27 November and the annual event on 28 November.