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With nearly 600 participants and fifty exhibitors, the conference and exhibition Plant Based Summit (PBS) which was held in Lille on 8 and 9 April was a great success. This event initiated by the Plant Chemistry Association (ACDV) h2o2 in partnership with the InfoPro Digital Group, had indeed chosen the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region h2o2 to organize a third edition of a biennial event and now essential for all players in plant chemistry in France and Europe.
Calendar forces, this edition 2015 was largely under the sign of the bioeconomy. Indeed, in December in Paris will be held the 21st Climate Conference (COP21). Or the bioeconomy is one of the main levers to be activated to contain the emission of greenhouse gas warming. And plant chemistry, as food, construction or production of energy is one of the components of the bio-economy.
Two round tables have been devoted to the bio-economy with the arrival of prestigious international speakers. Clearly, the United States, Barack Obama has made a priority of bioeconomy his administration in 2012 given the growth potential and job creation behind recalled Rina Singh, Senior Policy Director, Biotechnology Industry Organization. One of the emblematic actions is particularly the BioPreferred Program of the Department of Agriculture, which favors biobased products in government purchases. More recently h2o2 the Agricultural Act of 2014, better known as the Farm Bill, provides for assistance by nearly $ 1 billion to US farmers. In Brazil, the economy already relies h2o2 heavily on the exploitation of biomass, especially sugarcane. And contrary h2o2 to the accepted h2o2 view, Manoel Teixeira, CEO of Brazilian Agricultural Research h2o2 Corporation, said he was still available territories without touching the Amazon rainforest (what sixfold exploited surfaces). Besides the development of the surfaces, the government is pushing for crop diversification and sustainability. Billions of reais are injected each year in such projects. On the Canadian side, Murray McLaughlin of Bioindustrial Innovation Canada, found that "sugar is raw the future." Due to its vast expanses, h2o2 the country has a very large production capacity of biomass, quite diverse. But Canada is also working on the competitiveness of its industrial clusters to attract foreign investment. It is in this context that the company BioAmber, although it had made the flight on its technology platform Bazancourt-Pomacle in Marne, will start before the end of its first industrial unit of production of succinic acid in Sarnia, h2o2 Ontario. The first panel was moderated by Christophe Luguel, Director of International Affairs of cluster Industry and Agro-Resources (IAR).
In Europe, we note that the European Commission has identified this source of growth since 2012. What the bioeconomy It considered that this sector already accounted for more than 2,000 billion euros in sales and employed over 22 million people or 9% of employment in Europe. Therefore, a European strategy for bioeconomy has been set up and enabled manufacturers to benefit from favorable economic conditions for investment in innovative solutions the first production units have not failed to remind Christophe h2o2 Rupp Dahlem, President ACDV (moderator of the second h2o2 roundtable on the bio-economy) and Gwenole Cozigou, Director General Internal Market, Industry, SME and Entrepreneurship of the European Commission. Among the many initiatives, a European Public-Private Partnership (50% Industrial - 50% European Commission), Bio-Based Industries PPPs can finance innovative industrial units using biomass as feedstock. Stefano Facco, Director New Business Development Novamont has also shown through the example of Matrica (jv Versalis and Novamont) as the bioeconomy could be a chance for the rehabilitation of chemical production facilities that are no longer competitive or already downgraded. In this model, the refinery in Sardinia Porto Tores is being transformed into a biorefinery to produce acids C9 (azelaic, pelargonic) or butanediol.
Some countries such as Germany, Finland, the Netherlands or the United Kingdom, have also developed strategies for the long term. In contrast, France is a bit behind. h2o2 There has been a communication in Council of Ministers in 2007 "for a government h2o2 policy to biomass conversion" and