Since its first edition, the Brightsite Transition Outlook (BTO) has mapped the road towards a sustainable, circular and climate-neutral chemical industry. Browse and download previous editions to follow the latest insights, developments and ambitions shaping this transition.
Why recycling won’t scale without policy.
In this fourth edition of the Brightsite Transition Outlook, the required transition to a circular chemical industry is approached as more than just a technological challenge.
Barriers of implementation of circular options include economic factors, technological maturity, infrastructure gaps and regulatory gaps.
This new report offers in-depth insights into what it takes to secure a sustainable future for the industry, our economy, and the environment.
Transition to sustainable chemical industry is possible
We are facing an enormous challenge in the transformation toward sustainability, as it involves the Netherlands, the chemical industry and value chains.
At present, contextual developments are moving fast, but actual greening is much slower despite many initiatives, and the climate cannot wait. This raises a public debate as to whether we should continue with large-scale chemistry in the Netherlands.
In this Brightsite Transition Outlook, we discuss chemistry’s importance to society and what large-scale sustainable chemistry may look like. All this shows that large-scale sustainable chemistry is possible in the Netherlands. Because we can also work from our own energy and carbon sources, it makes us geopolitically resilient and offers perspective for future generations.
This new report offers in-depth insights into what it takes to secure a sustainable future for the industry, our economy, and the environment.
The second edition of the Brightsite Transition Outlook shows that the transition to a circular industry will be paired with scarcity: scarcity of green energy, of green raw materials and of industrial water. Where so far the energy transition in particular has received attention, the focus is now on the raw material transition. Brightsite Transition Outlook (BTO) 2023 has been formulated for companies, research institutes, policymakers and support organisations that are collectively shaping the raw materials transition for the chemical industry. A fictional chemical complex, CHEM-NL, encompassing the entirety of the Netherlands’ ethylene and ammonia production, is shedding light on the requisite renewable raw materials and energy.
This comprehensive analysis offers insights into the raw materials transition of the Dutch chemical sector and the challenges involved.
Helping to shape the transition to a climate neutral chemical industry
Due to its size, the chemical industry—in Limburg centred mainly around the Chemelot site in Geleen—can play a key part in achieving the climate targets. The Brightsite Transition Outlook offers an overview of how and when Chemelot’s climate targets can be achieved and what is needed to make this a reality. In this way, Brightsite supports the site users and the investments they are making in the future of Chemelot. The 2030 targets are expected to be largely achieved through measures that have already been identified. However, the target of net zero emissions by 2050 still requires several new solutions.
This inspiring brochure provides you with more information about how Chemelot is becoming climate neutral.
