Addressing concerns over future feedstocks
Renewable resources
and biorefineries conference to be held in York, UK
6 September 2006
Sharing SCI’s concerns over
future availability of feedstocks,
the University of York, UK, is
organising the second international
‘Renewable resources
and biorefineries conference’
on 6 September 2006.
Organised by the university’s
Enterprise and Innovation
Office and Green Chemistry
Group, the three-day event will
feature leading academics,
industrialists and policymakers
from around the world
and will showcase a huge range
of pioneering products, innovations
and research in the
renewables sector.
With key themes ranging
from biofuels and bio-energy to
European policy and socio-economic
issues, the conference
will address subjects that affect
everyone in the supply chain,
from the end-users who must
seek out innovative products
and processes to the companies,
large and small, who are
developing them and the academics
who are forging new
approaches to the supply of
energy.
Speakers will include Gerhard
Isenberg, former head of
energy strategy for Daimler
Chrysler; Wiktor Raldow, head
of the new and renewable
energy sources unit of the
European Commission; John
Pierce, director of biochemical
sciences and engineering,
DuPont, USA; and Uma
Shaanker, of the University of
Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore,
India.
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