Industrial Biotechnology How Did An SME Get Involved...

INTEGRITY. SUSTAINABILITY. FOCUS.

Industrial Biotechnology – How Did An SME Get Involved?

David Randall R&D Manager

Chemoxy International Ltd

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Scope of Presentation

– Personal Introduction

– Introduction to Chemoxy

– Our Projects in IB

– Review of Waste2Go Project (EU Funded)

– Conclusions

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Custom Processing

Niche product portfolio

Solvent Recovery

Teesside, UK


Enhanced Customer value

Key Strengths Key Statistics

UK leaders in combined reaction/distillation

Growing portfolio of low toxicity proprietary

products.

Excellent Reputation & Technical Strength

Outstanding EH&S Performance.

2012 Sales: >£38 million

Number of employees: 115

Number of customers/distributors: 100+

Number of Own Products: 14

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Billingham Site

Middlesbrough Site

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History


Dow acquired the

business from Ascot plc

2001 2007 2009 1868

All Saints Refinery

specialised in

tar processing owed by

Sadlers

North Western Oil Company

purchased the company

and upgraded the site

1965

Carless Chemicals

purchased the

Middlesbrough site

1975

1984

Management buy out –

the new company was

called Chemoxy International plc

The Suter Group

Buy Chemoxy

1989 1994

Billingham Site

purchased

Ascot Holdings

acquire Suter plc

1997 2000

Chemoxy

renamed

Haltermann

Major upgrade of MeCl

facilities at Billingham

2012

Management buy out

Chemoxy International plc

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Core Values


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Site Overview


• 2 production sites – Middlesbrough and Billingham

• 8 high resolution fractionation columns

• Up to 50 theoretical plates

• 0.7 to 1.5m diameter

• Vacuum and side stream capabilities

• Temperatures up to 240°C

• 9 Reaction vessels

• Carbon/stainless steel (7m3 - 50m3)

• Glass lined (9m3)

• Chloride resistant stainless steel (24m3)

• Solids handling facility

• 50-60 kt output

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Middlesbrough Site


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Billingham Site


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EH&S Performance


I&I

PSC

0

2

4

6

8

10

12

2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Year

Middlesbrough and Billingham EH&S Headline Statistics 2002 -2012

I&I

LOPC

PSC

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Our Competences


Adsorption

Batch Reactions

Batch-to-Continuous

Distillation

Reactive Distillation

Extractions

Filtration

Fixed-bed reaction

Molecular Sieve Treatment

Scale Up

Solvent Recovery

Anhydride Formation

Diels Alder Reactions

Esterification

Etherification

Reduction

Oxidation

Transesterification

Polymerisation

Alkylation especially Methylation

Quaternisation

Acetal Formation

Acetic Acid / Anhydride

Acrylonitrile

Acrylic Acid

Allyl Chloride

Epichlorohydrin

Hydrogen

Hydrogen Peroxide

Organic Acids and Alcohols

Methyl Chloride

Phenol

TDI

Technologies

and Processes

Chemistries

Raw materials

handled

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Niche Portfolio of Chemoxy Products


• Estasol™ -low toxicity coatings/general purpose solvent

• Coasol™ Range - low odour, non VOC , coalescing solvent

• 2 Ethyl Hexyl Acetate – solvent for leather coatings

• N Hexyl acetate – fragrance solvent

• Isoamyl Acetate – Flavour and Fragrance

• Isoamyl Alcohol – Natural Product for Flavour & Fragrance

• Glutaric Anhydride – Resins and F&F

• Di n-Butyl Ether – Solvent for Grignard reactions, electronics and pharma

• Dimethyl Adipate/Diisopropyl adipate – Cosmetics , Pharma , Resins

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Sales by Market


Agrochem

1.0%

Plastics and resins

2.0% Personal care /

Household

8.0%

Oil and Gas

18.0%

Other

26.0%

Coatings and

solvents

45.0%

Other

26.0%

Coatings and Solvents

45%

Oil and Gas

18.0%

Personal care/Household

8.0%

Plastics and resins

2.0% Agrochem

1.0%

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Solvent Recovery


The following is a list of solvents we routinely recover and that can be used in many industrial applications; we can also handle many other streams.

• Acetic acid

• Acetone

• Cyclohexane

• Dimethyl Formamide (DMF)

• Industrial Denatured Alcohol (IDA)

• Ethanol

• Ethyl Acetate

• Glycols (MEG, DEG, TEG, MPG, DPG)

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Industrial Biotechnology – How Did We Get Involved?

Several Government Agencies promote the funding of R&D for SMEs

• In UK, The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) sponsors Collaborative R&D between Universities and SMEs.

• In the EU, Projects involving Transnational consortia are supported by the Commission.

• The EPSRC supports Academics working with SMEs • Individual National Assemblies also support projects

relevant to their Nations.

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Projects in our Portfolio

• The EU have supported an FP7 project – Waste2Go

• The TSB have supported an IB Collaborative venture

• The EPSRC supported a Multi-Disciplinary Project on IB sourcing of valuable intermediates

• The Welsh Assembly have supported the use of Grass as an Industrial Feedstock, with Bangor and Aberystwyth Universities, and several industrial collaborators.

DEVELOPMENT AND VERIFICATION OF AN INNOVATIVE FULL

LIFE SUSTAINABLE APPROACH TO THE VALORISATION OF

MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE INTO INDUSTRIAL FEEDSTOCKS

www.waste2go.eu

THE IDEA

• The Waste2Go project will provide an innovative and readily

applicable approach to address the issue of valorisation of

municipal solid waste (MSW) into chemical feedstocks for the

chemical industry.

The project is co-funded by the European Commission under the Seventh

Framework Programme for research and technological development (FP7),

which is the EU’s primary instrument for funding research and demonstration

activities from 2007 to 2013

Project budget: € 4,712,849

EU contribution: € 3,495,426

THE CONCEPT

• To develop a process in which the biogenic fraction of municipal solid

waste (MSW) is converted from a waste stream into a source of

various sustainable chemical feedstocks.

• To develop enzyme-based systems which will convert the MSW into a

range of high value, oligomeric chemical feedstock’s.

• This approach is to provide a renewable feedstock which could

displace fossil derived materials, whilst avoiding current bio-refining

processes which employ crop derived feedstocks.

THE APPROACH I.

1. A number of thermo-mechanical (TM) process trials for the

biogenic fraction of MSW will provide a suitable feedstock for the

enzyme biodegradation process.

2. A number of novel and commercially available enzymes will be

trialled in order to find a system that can degrade the material

from the TM process into a number of oligomeric and monomeric

intermediates rather than simple sugars.

THE APPROACH II.

3. The enzyme system is then scaled up to allow the digestion of

trial material

4. Alongside the biodegradation process there will be the

development of novel equipment to allow the separation of the

intermediates into discrete fractions increasing their value.

5. The fractionated output of the biodegradation process will the be

put through application screening process to show the viability

of the materials produced.

Via this cascade approach, the initial residues will be used to produce chemical monomerics with

commercial applications and secondary residues will then be valorised as a renewable energy source.

THE PARTNERSHIP

Centre for Process Innovation Limited UK

Universitetet for miljø- og biovitenskap NO

Fraunhofer IBP DE

Geonardo Environmental Technologies Ltd. HU

Feyecon Development & Implementation BV NL

Chemoxy International Limited UK

Akzo Nobel Functional Chemicals BV NL

G. W. Butler Limited UK

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