Sustainable chemistry
Sustainable chemistry is crucial in the move towards a circular economy and a climate-neutral society. BlueChem underlines the belief in sustainable chemistry as the key industry of the 21st century and the pacesetter of a circular economy. Moreover, chemistry provides crucial innovations and products for successfully addressing the climate challenge.
By helping start-ups and growth companies accelerate, bring their products to market more smoothly and reach their full commercial potential as soon as possible, BlueChem plays a vital role in the transition to a sustainable future.
Sustainable chemistry is one of the five key sectors that the Flemish Government is highlighting in its economic vision of the future.
BlueChem concentrates specifically on innovation in sustainable chemistry. The projects at BlueChem focus on four themes that correspond to the strategic goals of Catalisti, the spearhead cluster for chemistry and plastics.
- Circularity and resource efficiency
- Process optimisation
- Bio based value chain
- Advanced sustainable products
More specifically, it concerns the conversion of waste and CO2 into reusable chemicals, industrial applications for bio-based materials such as sugar beets or food waste, making products more reusable and recyclable within a circular economy and reinventing production processes to produce more with less energy, fewer raw materials and less waste.
In short, it is chemistry as the source of solutions for a better, cleaner and more sustainable future while respecting everyone’s quality of life.
BlueChem sets the stage for pioneering innovations that will put Flemish chemistry on the road to a more sustainable society and circular economy for the rest of the world. This reinforces the international appeal of the Flemish chemical sector, which can lead to new investments. BlueChem will anchor the chemical industry in Flanders in the long term and prepare it for the future.
With +60.000 direct jobs, the chemical and life sciences sector is one of the most important branches of industry in Flanders. It accounts for a third of the added value, a third of all exports and almost half of all industrial expenditure on research and development in Flanders.
