The Renewable Materials Conference 2025 is the world's leading event on the Renewable Carbon Economy.

++ Already 150 participants from 16 countries registered, > 500 expected ++ final program ++ exhibition ++ workshop booking ++

The next big thing in climate change mitigation. More than 90% of the carbon embedded in chemicals and plastics is fossil carbon from the ground, which needs to be replaced by biogenic, captured and recycled carbon. Defossilisation of the chemical industry is the key.

Chemical companies and start-ups will present their concepts, strategies and success stories for the future of a sustainable and competitive chemicals and plastics industry. Topics include alternative feedstocks, alternative naphtha, electric cracker and non-cracker commodity production via methanol and ethanol, biotechnology and biorefineries and more.

The Renewable Materials Conference (RMC) covers the entire value chain from alternative carbon feedstocks, the chemical industry, the materials sector, product manufacturers to brand owners, as well as investors and policy makers. The last conference in June 2024 attracted nearly 500 participants from 32 countries, 90 % of them from the industrial sector. This year more than 500 participants are expected to attend 75 presentations, 20 panel discussions and up to 12 workshops.

14 presentations on defossilisation at the Renewable Materials Conference (RMC), 22-24 September 2025 in Siegburg/Cologne (Germany).

Please find below all presentations of the ‘Defossilisation of the Chemical Industry’ session on the first day of the conference (22 September), and the panellists for the high level panel discussion on ‘The Future of the Chemical industry in Europe: Defossilised and competitive – how can this work?’ at the end of the day.

Lars Börger

nova-Institute (DE)

The Future of a Resilient Chemical Industry in a Vulnerable World

Ruirui Zong-Rühe

Roland Berger (DE)

Heardwind or Tailwind – Defossilization in the Chemicals Industry

Eric De Deckere

CEFIC (BE)

How can the Chemical Sector Contribute to Sustainable Carbon Cycles

Samir Somaiya

Godavari Biorefineries (IN)

India’s Transition to a Green Economy and the role of Godavari Biorefineries by Regenerative Biomass realising Commercial Scale Advanced Biochemicals (and Social Approach)

Ortwin Ertl

Annikki (AT)

High-Volume Chemicals from Biomass – By Means of a Unique Fractionation Technology and Enzymatic Reactions

Andreas Kohl

Verbio (DE)

Vegetable Oil to Alpha Olefins: A New Direct Value Chain Emerges in the Chemical Industry

Reinier Grimbergen

Blue Circle Olefins (NL)

Defossilizing the Chemical Industry by Circular Methanol

Lee Walko

Omni Tech International (US)

From Farm to Industry: U. S. Soybean Innovations Driving Chemical Defossilisation

Doris De Guzman

Green D Market Analytics (US)

Renewable Chemicals Market Update – Navigating Shifting Global Dynamics

Virginie Roux

Michelin Engineered Polymers (FR)

5-HMF: When a Sleeping Giant Wakes up

Pauline Rullière

Pili (FR)

Bio-based Aromatic Intermediates: Pioneering Sustainability to Decarbonise the Industry

Jean-Paul Lange

University of Twente (NL)

Recycling Cascade for Plastics Waste

Outi Teräs

Neste (FI)

The Future of Plastics is REnewable and REcycled

Marleen Ramakers & Uros Kresovic

Indaver Plastics2Chemicals (BE)

Indaver P2C: Closing the Loop with Cutting-Edge Advanced Recycling

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Guido Müller
guido.mueller@nova-institut.de