Benefits for business and the environment

Skilled workforce in placeDoing business in our port area. Terneuzen has an excellent business climate with an international character. The seaport town of Terneuzen forms the economic heart of the region due to its central function. The Western Scheldt river and the Canal Zone between Ghent and Terneuzen present good opportunities for industrial and port-related business. The prospects are equally promising for other businesses too, thanks to the favourable location with fast connections to major Dutch and Flemish cities.

Inevitably, this background has given rise to a large, skilled workforce, which is continually increasing thanks to the region’s excellent technical schools and training centres. This resource is comparable to the best Europe has to offer.

YaraGeneral manager of Yara, Geert Raedemaecker: "For years, Yara International and Yara Sluiskil in particular have been occupied with their ecological foot print. Improving energy efficiency and reducing emissions into the water, soil and air are on our daily agenda. Biopark Terneuzen has enabled Yara Sluiskil to implement significant improvements and the Biopark concept therefore enables Yara Sluiskil to fulfill its sustainability ambitions.With the CO2 from our ammonia production process and the low caloric heat in many of our production processes, we have two Smart Links for the greenhouses in the Biopark. Yara delivers these Links to WarmCO2, which distributes the flows to the vegetable growers. The concept is a perfect example of how, by joining forces with entrepreneurs beyond our gates, we can take bigger steps towards achieving sustainable growth.”

Geert Raedemaecker - Yara

SustainabilitySustainable industrial growth

Synergy

Bio-energySmart link

Cooperation

Residual flows

Cost savingGreen rawmaterials

Biopark

Biopark Terneuzen is a work in progress and welcomes

the participation of any producer or supplier company, local

or international, seeking to contribute to and benefit from

sustainable development. Adding your name, expertise and

vision to its growing list of partners could be the next most

important strategic decision you take for the future

of your business. Your enquiry for further information

will be welcomed.

www.bioparkterneuzen.com

P.O. Box 1324530 AC Terneuzen

The Netherlands

Phone: +31 115 64 74 00Fax: +31 115 64 75 00

info@bioparkterneuzen.nl

Biopark Terneuzen is a founding partner of Bio Base Europe.

London

AntwerpGhent

Rotterdam

Participants Biopark Terneuzen Biopark Terneuzen, BER / Holland Innovation, Cargill, DELTA NV, Dow, DSD, Econcern / Evelop, Express Energy / Bio2E, Gemeente Terneuzen, Ghent Bio Energy Valley, Goes on Green, HZ University of Applied Sciences, Heros Sluiskil, ICL-IP, Impuls Zeeland, Lijnco Green Energy / Schücking, Nedalco, Provincie Zeeland, ROC Westerschelde, Sagro, Valuepark Terneuzen, Wageningen UR, WarmCO2, Yara, Zeeland Seaports.

Cargill > NedalcoCargill delivers residues of starch,purified water, energy and compressed air to Nedalco.

An open door to the future Biopark Terneuzen represents a new way of thinking in the creation of agro-industrial sustainability. Extending the earlier concepts of technology collectives, it raises the platform to a higher level. Under the ‘Smart Link’ label, Biopark Terneuzen promotes and facilitates the exploitation of key synergies between businesses located in the same geographic area. Specifically, it helps to maximise the potential of the exchange and use of each other’s by-products and waste products, which then become feedstock, energy or utility supplements for their own production processes.

“The answer to a global challenge begins with a local solution”

Zeeland Seaports is one of the initiators of Biopark Terneuzen. This is a logical extension of its overall management and development responsibility for the port areas of Terneuzen and Vlissingen.

The port company, Zeeland Seaports, is staffed by dedicated people who know the importance of forging personal links with the port’s customers and responding quickly and intelligently to their needs. It is no idle boast that Zeeland Seaports is driven by dedication. Furthermore, Zeeland Seaports is strategically located on the estuary of the Western Scheldt between Rotterdam and Antwerp, and has an open connection to the North Sea and the Rhine-Scheldt Canal. It serves both the global liner routes and Europe’s inland waterways (currently involving around 6,000 seagoing ships and 20,000 inland vessels a year), handling the full range of cargo, such as bulk, breakbulk and containers.

Zeeland Seaports also offers first class links by road, pipeline and rail to and from the European hinterland, thereby providing an ideal trade and transport hub for local, national and international businesses.

Biopark TerneuzenSustainable growth, in the context of good stewardship of the environment and its resources, is one of the biggest ongoing challenges facing politicians and industrial leaders. Zeeland Seaports has identified a route that provides a uniquely innovative solution. Biopark Terneuzen represents a new way of thinking in the creation of agro-industrial sustainability. Under the ‘Smart Link’ heading, Biopark Terneuzen promotes and facilitates the exploitation of key synergies between businesses located in the same geographic area. Specifically, it helps to maximise the potential of the exchange and use of each other’s by-products and waste products, which then become feedstock, energy or utility supplements for their own production processes.

BioBase EuropeFlanders and the Netherlands have joined forces in BioBase Europe, to build state-of-the-art research and training facilities to speed up economic growth, innovation capacity and sustainable development in our society. The founding partners of BioBase Europe are Ghent Bio-Energy Valley and Biopark Terneuzen. In Ghent, the BioBase Europe Pilot Plant was established. It is a flexible and diversified pilot plant that operates at tonne scale. It is there to close the critical gap between the scientific feasibility and industrial application of new biotechnological processes. The BioBase Europe Training Centre in Terneuzen is a centre for education, network and exhibition that promotes the development of a sustainable biobased economy. It offers general and company-specific training and is closely attuned to market demand.

An ideal trading location

Bio-complementary partnerships are the future

WarmCO2 > GlastuinbouwWarmCO2 manages the distribution of heat and CO2 within the Biopark-concept.

Biomassacentrale > Heros (Ecopark)The biomass central supplies water to the recycling company Heros.

By converting waste streams into Smart Links, Biopark Terneuzen’s partners are able to capitalise on residual values that would otherwise go unused.

Importantly for businesses, smart linking can:

• Eliminate storage and disposal costs• Lower environmental taxes• Optimise production costs• Improve profitability

In the wider context, these bio-complementary partnerships combine to help:

• Conserve non-renewable resources• Exploit the recoverable value of resources after first use• Reduce the waste and pollution burden on the atmospheric

and physical environment• Contribute towards the sustainability of future industrial growth

Yara > WarmCO2

Yara delivers CO2 to the greenhouse project.

Arie de Bode - Heros

Heros Ecopark TerneuzenDirector of Heros, Arie de Bode, is enthusiastic about the Biopark concept: “Heros is an enthusiastic participant in Biopark Terneuzen. At its 45 ha site, opportunities have been created to actually realise initiatives which put flesh on the bones of the basic idea behind Biopark Terneuzen, whereby businesses use each other’s residual flows as raw material. For example, the Biodiesel Plant of Goes on Green (250,000 tonnes), the Biomass Power Plant of Lijnco Green Energy (10 MW) and the Heros Water Purification facility are interconnected and the Bio2E Biomass Power Plant (5 MW) will shortly be added. In addition, metals are recovered from various waste streams and the residual products are used again in building materials. Initiatives are being elaborated to connect businesses beyond the Heros Ecopark too.”