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New business
2. When it’s gone, it’s gone.
In pursuit of sustainability
Attention! (1)
Attention! (2)
Taking care of the pence:
doing more with oil
License to operate:
Limburg’s most wanted
Vitaler worden?
... Een mooi voorbeeld
18 | 11 | 2010
Congres “Open Chemical Innovation: your business
in Top Gear”
27 | 10 | 2010 -
03 | 11 | 2010
K2010: http://www.k-online.de/
13 | 04 | 2011 and
12 | 10 | 2011
Open days SABIC Site Geleen.
New business More companies, more activities. This holds in particular if these companies are admitted to the Campus because of their high cross-fertilization factor. These are players that score high in terms of open innovation, offering scope for co-creation. In this way the Chemelot community will get stronger at double-fast speed... One of these new companies is NLISIS, a company providing gas chromatography solutions for extremely accurate analysis of anything edible, and of many other materials, too. Now close at hand for all Chemelot occupants. To help them grow. With products and services that improve material properties and that benefit health, environment and safety. |
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2. When it’s gone, it’s gone. In pursuit of sustainability Consumption of raw materials and energy for production of all the goods we use has soared since the industrial revolution. It’s a system that cannot last, not being sustainable enough – when things are gone, they are gone. Change, structural change, is needed to make it sustainable. We have made the first steps towards renewable energy and materials. Companies like DSM have been working on this for years, also at Chemelot. This is about sustainability, and one example is Cradle to Cradle, a concept that sets the stage for a new industrial revolution. This summer five DSM products were rewarded with a C2C silver certificate. |
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Attention! (1) Campus events are becoming more fun. It’s like visiting a pub; OK, no spirits are served, but there are spirited discussions and a need, increasingly pronounced, to learn from each other. For instance about how to get grants at a time when banks more often sit tight on their money. And about safety in the process industry or about the potential effects on economic recovery of biomedical materials, nanotechnology and the first Dutch electric car. We’re receiving ever more attention, from an increasing number of people. After a visit to Chemelot a leading US journalist gave as his opinion: “You guys are light years ahead...”. Innovation Magazine apparently plans to publish several articles about the progress made by the Dutch materials sector next spring.
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Attention! (2) Isobionics, a company based on the Chemelot Campus, has received the Frost & Sullivan 2010 Global Technology Innovation Award in Food Ingredients. According to the global consultancy, Isobionics outperforms its main competitors on five criteria. |
Taking care of the pence: doing more with oil Oil is getting scarcer. And oil is an important raw material for many of the products made on Chemelot. It is a main pillar of our economy, of your income. While the experts are diligently, with varying success, looking for alternatives, Intertek is helping its customers with innovative technology to make oil stocks last longer and to get more out of oil. This is done by means of a mini-cracker, a laboratory-scale plant that mainly produces information. This knowledge generates profit, in money terms, but in social terms it also means progress. |
License to operate: Limburg’s most wanted “Hi John. Check out that bonus offered by DSM. Fancy that?...”. There are different ways to recruit operators. There’s the conventional approach, with huge billboards along the motorways, or with TV and newspaper ads. Others rely on word-of-mouth communication, which could nowadays perhaps better be called word-of-GSM communication, on the basis of social media. Attracted by the lure of bonuses, for instance, Henry informs John, John informs Frank, and Frank informs Mary. And Mary twitters about what the process industry has to offer. They need people there. To contribute to the development of the Limburg economy... and of clean energy sources, for instance. |
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Want to enhance your vitality?... Arno Parren isn’t one to show any understanding for people with an unhealthy life style. Take smoking: many people are unable to kick the habit. They don’t care enough about their health, they have different priorities. A legitimate thought? Arno Parren – director of DSM’s Occupational Health Service – doesn’t think so, even if people are in a “stressful situation”. A cigarette seems to make you calm, and some people are prepared to accept the risks... But when they change their mind, he’s ready to help them with all his knowledge and experience. For he wants to create a vital community. And he’s successful... DSM employees are scoring better and better in terms of vitality. The Occupational Health Service shares its knowledge and experience with the Chemelot community and with the Dutch Olympic Committee...
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 Ontspanning Door Sport – Relaxation through Sport |
18 | 11 | 2010 |
Congres “Open Chemical Innovation: your business in Top Gear” Find out how Open Chemical Innovation has been used very successfully at DSM and Chemelot in the past few years. A visit to this English-language congress may boost your business. Interested? Admission is free. For more information and registration, see: http://www.openchemicalinnovation.com/ |
27 | 10 | 2010 - |
K2010: http://www.k-online.de/ |
13 | 04 | 2011 and 12 | 10 | 2011 |
Open days at the SABIC Site in Geleen. Register here (page only available in Dutch). |
