Senbis (Emmen, Northern Netherlands) expands pilot facilities for sustainable plastics
Senbis expands pilot facilities for sustainable plastics
Over the next three years, Senbis in Emmen, the Netherlands, will be investing €5.5 million through its new subsidiary SPIC Facilities BV, in a testing facility for the development of sustainable plastics.
‘We will be acquiring an impressive range of machinery that will make successive polymer production processes available at different scales: from grams and kilograms to full truck loads,’ says Gerard Nijhoving.
This represents a considerable expansion of the facilities of SPIC Emmen, the cluster of companies and institutions in the Northern Netherlands that jointly offer their own facilities to the market. This way they facilitate the acceleration and upscaling of developments relating to sustainable plastics.
Unique in Europe
According to Nijhoving, the wide range of openly offered R&D and production facilities, the flexibility, the industrial knowledge and the available network by being part of the ecosystem Chemport Europe, provides us here in Emmen with a unique offer for the plastic industry in Europe. ‘You may find such facilities spread out over different locations, but not combined at a single location. They may be located behind closed doors at a multinational or at knowledge institutions, where there is typical a focus on fundamental research. Our research is pragmatic, flexible, fast and with an industrial focus.