nova-institut for Ecology and Innovation Renewable Resources and Electro-Mobility Market, Economy & Technology Communication
nova-institut The nova-institut GmbH was founded as a private and independent institute in 1994. It is located at the Chemiepark Knapsack in Huerth, which lies in the heartland of the chemical industry in Cologne. The work of the nova-institut focuses on the current and future supply of raw and finished materials to the industry. Renewable resources from agriculture and forestry will play an increasingly important role and will become the key components of a sustainable bio-based economy. Solar energy, wind energy and nuclear power cannot deliver raw materials, therefore mankind will be increasingly dependent on the material use of renewable resources. By means of intelligent resource management, shortages can be avoided in the next decades, despite increases in population. With projects and surveys, market analyses, industrial and political consulting, network management, publications and conferences, the nova-institut supervises and promotes a Raw Material Shift, moving away from fossil carbon carriers towards a sustainable raw material supply through renewable resources from field and forest. In the field of industrial biotechnology and biorefinery concepts it is, above all, a question of a reliable source of raw materials and the techno-economic evaluation of process chains as well as market analyses to find the most promising concepts and applications. In the case of bio-based materials projects will focus on the further techno-economic optimization of new applications, for market launch and to create suitable political framework conditions. Already almost 500,000 t of innovative bio-based plastics and composites are currently used in industry. Bioenergy, however, can utilize only a small proportion of solar radiation compared to solar and wind energy. The nova-institut sees the future of bioenergy particularly in the multiple use of main products and by-products for either energy or materials and in the cascading utilization, too, meaning several stages of material uses and final energy recovery, as well as the primary use of residual materials and by-products for energy. But with respect to all land uses, the focus in the future should be especially on resource efficiency and climate protection. In the field of mobility the nova-institut believes in electro-mobility, using renewable resources for energy production. Analyses show that in just a few years electric vehicles will be the best option for sustainable mobility.
Services Market, Economy & Technology Market research and economic analysis Feasibility and potential studies Techno-economic evaluation LCA-Meta-Analyses Network and project management Communication Marketing support Dissemination of information internet and print Wikipedia Training Workshop & Conferences Collaboration with associations & committees
Areas of Work Resource management - feedstock availability, price development and usage competition: agricultural, forest and fossil resources Industrial material use of renwable resources and bioenergy Industrial biotechnology / biorefinery Bio-based products bio-based plastics and composites, WPC and Natural Fibres Reinforced Plastics (NFRP) Cascading utilization Electro-Mobility Political framework for a sustainable bio-based economy
Selected Customers Automotive Industry brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, Coburg (Germany) Daimler AG, Research and Technology, Ulm (Germany) Faurecia Interior Systems (SAI Automotive SAL GmbH), Sontra (Germany) Ford Forschungszentrum Aachen, Aachen (Germany) Johnson Controls Automotive Group, Burscheid (Germany) Quadrant Holding, Zurich (Switzerland) Chemicals, plastics and bio-based materials BASF AG, Ludwigshafen (Germany) BASF Corporation, Charlotte (USA) Honeywell, Brussels (Belgium) InfraServ GmbH & Co. Knapsack KG, Huerth (Germany) LEIFHEIT AG, Nassau (Germany) Power authorities Rheinbraun / RWE AG, Erftstadt (Germany) Engineering Coperion GmbH, Stuttgart (Germany) KOSCHE Profilummantelung GmbH, Much (Germany) Reifenhäuser GmbH & Co. KG Maschinenfabrik, Troisdorf (Germany) FERROSTAAL AG, Division KIRCHFELD Food Technology, Essen (Germany) Consulting Ernst & Young, Paris & Lyon (France) BLEZAT CONSULTING, Lyon (France) meó consulting team, Cologne (Germany) Pestalozzi-Consulting Group, Lenzerheide (Switzerland) The Textile Consultancy Ltd., Fife (Scotland) Associations AVK Federation of Reinforced Plastics, Frankfurt a. M. (Germany) European Bioplastics, Berlin (Germany) European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA), Huerth (Germany) Cluster Industrial Biotechnology (CLIB 2021), Duesseldorf (Germany) Association of the German Wood-Based Panel Industries (VHI), Gießen (Germany) Politics & Institutions Agricultural and Food Economics Department / SAC, Aberdeen (Scotland) Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz (BMELV), Berlin / Bonn (Germany) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) / Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC), London (United Kingdom) Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Eschborn (Germany) Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU), Osnabrück (Germany) European Commission, Brussels (Belgium) Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe e.v. (FNR), Gülzow (Germany) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome (Italy) Embassy of Canada to Germany, Berlin (Germany) KfW-Bankengruppe, department for sustainability, Frankfurt a. M. (Germany) Ministry of the Environment and Conservation, Agriculture and Consumer Protection of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MUNLV), Duesseldorf (Germany)
Online and Print The News Portal www.renewable-resources.de The Biowerkstoff Report www.nachwachsende-rohstoffe.info/bwreport.php European Business Directory for Innovative Renewable Materials and Bio-based Products (BIB) www.biowerkstoff.info Periodic International Congresses German WPC Congress (Cologne, Germany) www.wpc-kongress.de Biowerkstoff Congress International Congress on Bio-based Plastics and Composites (Hannover, Germany) www.biowerkstoff-kongress.de International Conference of the European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA) (Wesseling, Germany) www.eiha.org/conf7 German Electric Vehicle Congress (Bonn, Germany) www.e-mobil-kongress.de Associations and Committees Since 2003: Member of the Federation of Reinforced Plastics, Expert Working Group Natural Fibre-Reinforced Plastics ; member of the Steering Committee since 2006 Since 2005: Executive office of the European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA) (www.eiha.org) Since 2005: Member of the FAO Hard Fibre Group, Rome (Italy) (for the European Industrial Hemp Association) 2007: Founding member of the Cluster Industrial Biotechnology (CLIB2021) in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) Since 2009: Member of the Industrial Task Force on BioBased Content of Materials and Products (Brussels, european bioplastics) and CEN/BT/WG 209 M/429 elaboration of a standardization programme for bio-based products (Brussels, CEN) (for the European Industrial Hemp Association)
Management Michael Carus Managing Director Division Management Market, Economy & Technology Phone: +49 (0) 2233 4814 40 E-mail: michael.carus@nova-institut.de Christin Schmidt Authorized Signatory Division Management Communication Phone: +49 (0) 2233 4814 44 E-mail: christin.schmidt@nova-institut.de nova-institut GmbH Chemiepark Knapsack Industriestrasse 50354 Huerth Germany Phone: +49 (0) 2233 4814 40 Fax: +49 (0) 2233 4814 50 contact@nova-institut.de www.nova-institut.de/nr
Our Team Dr. Stephan Piotrowski Dipl.-Biol. Achim Raschka Economics and Resources Biotechnology Bioenergy Wikipedia stephan.piotrowski@nova-institut.de achim.raschka@nova-institut.de Dipl.-Geogr. Nicklas Monte Assistant to the Management Electro-Mobility nicklas.monte@nova-institut.de Dipl. Wirtsch.-Ing. Lena Scholz Bio-based Materials lena.scholz@nova-institut.de Dipl.-Geogr. Dominik Vogt Congress Management dominik.vogt@nova-institut.de MSc. Environmental Sciences Juliane Haufe LCA Meta-Analyses juliane.haufe@nova-institut.de Dipl.-Ing. Martina Kolarek Bio-based Materials martina.kolarek@nova-institut.de Dr. med. Franjo Grotenhermen Medicinal Plants Dipl.-Des. Marion Kupfer News Portal Konstance Papakonstantinou News Portal konstance.papakonstantinou @nova-institut.de M.A. Jutta Millich Congress Management