Its role Investor / Financier
Oost NL is the regional development agency for the eastern Netherlands. It invests public funds and provides business development support to startups, scale-ups, and established companies to accelerate innovation, industrial growth, and internationalization. Activities include co-investment and financing for technology and manufacturing ventures, energy-transition and circular-economy projects, and facilitating partnerships between companies, knowledge institutes, and government.
For the chemical industry, Oost NL supports initiatives that enhance sustainable production, circularity, and the decarbonization of industrial processes, helping promising technologies move from pilot to commercial deployment and strengthening the region’s industrial ecosystem.
chemXplore tracks 3 projects involving Oost NL, of which 3 are active.
Closest to start-up first.
Empyro will resume pyrolysis oil production from woody biomass residues this summer and add an upgrading unit to produce lignin- and sugar-based chemical feedstocks.
Moves into Front-End Engineering Design to refine plant design, reduce technical and execution risks, and prepare an engineering package for a Final Investment Decision.
Long-term deal secures sustainably sourced wood residues for Empyro bio-oil plant restart; feedstock will meet NTA 8080 traceability and sustainability criteria.
Grant deal formalises funding for Alpha One, enabling engineering, contracting and FID prep. At Evonik Antwerp: 120,000 t/yr iron fuel → 244 GWh/yr low‑carbon heat; ~682 kt CO₂ avoided in 10 yr.
€113.8M funding will develop a commercial iron fuel facility, aiming to decarbonize industrial heat and avoid over 1M tonnes of CO₂ emissions. Operational by 2029.
active all projects
What each is building and closing, and the pipelines and grids between them, on one map.
The 6 sharing the most projects, of 11.
