The NPT Podcast

It's bold, it's promising: it's the story of Vertoro. CTO and co-founder Panos Kouris, tells us all about their scaling up from start-up to construction. Panos found a new way of valorizing lignin. Vertoro could revolutionize the oil industry by producing a platform product that is 100% bio-based. Listen to their story!

Get up-to-date about the talk of the town in the field of wastewater: Ferr-tech. Not only have they been rewarded with the WIS award recently, they're also taking it to the next level with an ambition to produce and distribute their product Fersol in America. You'll hear all about their product and strategy. Our podcast reporter Carolien takes a tour in their headquarters in Meppel, and asks everything you need to know. They're calling out other water professionals to challenge them with new wastewater projects... listen along!

Transitioning towards a more sustainable society, biological desulfurization could play a major role in the future. When gas and oil extraction decreases, but the world’s need for sulfur as a base for fertilizer and fungicides remains, a more sustainable approach to extracting sulfur is necessary. In this episode PHD candidate Kestral Johnston and one of her supervisors, Jan Klok, tell us all about their discoveries and progress in biological desulfurization. This research project is initiated by Wetsus, where business and science come together in a collaboration with Paqell, Shell, Paques, Wageningen University, TU Delft and the University of Amsterdam.

Storing renewable energy, creating sustainable fuel: methanol is a very useful base for tons of applications. Making the synthesis of Co2 to methanol as efficient and scalable as possible is therefore of great interest to both science and business. It is super exciting to hear Tim van Schagen about his PhD research into this topic. He tells us all about the advances he is making in sustainable methanol synthesis. Let us know what you think about his research, or the podcast in general, via the NPT LinkedIn.

How will we come to a waste-free future? Greencovery could be part of the solution. Founder and director Carlos Cabrera tells us all about how they valorize ingredients from the food industry’s low-value side streams. Yannick Severin and Ronald Wielinga from the board of NPT, ask all about Greencovery’s solution to upcycle valuable compounds into new edible products. Finding the right match for the sidestream is key. Find out how it’s done in this first episode of the NPT-podcast!