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Careers
Who we are
Welcome to Avantium!
We are a leading company in the field of technology, catalysis, renewable chemistries and renewable polymers. We are a team of 220 colleagues that are passionate about creating a fossil-free world.
We share a common drive in wanting to make a difference in the world. We do this through our imagination, our creativity, our innovation and perseverance. We sometimes put high demands on ourselves as we are working on cutting-edge technologies. The more proud we can be when we realize break-through developments and we celebrate these together.
We embrace diversity as we employ 18 different nationalities in our company.
We want our employees to enjoy their work, to feel at home and to feel recognized for the future that we are shaping together.
Do you want to join us in making a difference?
Check out our vacancies below.
Sincerely, Tom van Aken, CEO
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Chain Reaction 2030
Towards a fossil-free chemical industry by 2050
Avantium and Cosun Beet Company join forces!
Cosun Beet Company and Avantium join forces and announced the ambition to produce plant-based glycols from sugars. To this end, the companies entered into a Term Sheet to establish a joint venture in which Cosun Beet Company will take a substantial share.
Cosun Beet Company and Avantium plan to form the joint venture in 2021, with the aim to make an investment decision for the foreseen commercial plant in the first half of 2023 and commercial operations commencing in 2025.
The joint venture is envisioned to be a world class producer of plant-based glycols to actively contribute to a fossil-free future. The joint venture will produce plant-based glycols by converting beet sugar into plantMEG™ and plantMPG™ using Avantium’s proprietary Ray Technology™. It is the intention that the joint venture will acquire a Ray Technology™ license from Avantium.
We take care of each other
In Avantium, we are working to enrich our knowledge and understanding and to change our behavior. Therefore, we will immerse ourselves in a new safety theme every three months. A few examples of the quarterly safety themes that we have had so far:
- Giving and accepting feedback
- The acknowledgement and recognition of unsafe situations
- Electrical awareness
- Housekeeping
Safety first
Safety is our highest priority in everything that we do. All Avantium employees committed to a list of so-called Golden Safety Rules. These rules remind us every single day that we take safety very serious in Avantium. We have implemented our Golden Safety Rules, we have procedures, we have good safety systems in place, but we all know that it requires continuous attention and awareness (behavior & culture) to make sure that we operate in a safe manner.
Golden safety rules
We are responsible of our own safety and that of others
We give and accept feedback, we ask when in doubt
We learn from our mistakes and those of others
We take the time to work in a safe way
We make sure our work area is clean and tidy
We use the right protective equipment
We assure immediate containment of unsafe situations
We report every unsafe situation
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Avantium Headquarters
Zekeringstraat 29
1014 BV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
RAY Demonstration Plant
Oosterhorn 4
9936 HD Delfzijl
Industriepark: Chemie Park Delfzijl
YXY Pilot Plant
Urmonderbaan 22
6167 RD Geleen
Brightlands Chemelot Campus
DAWN Pilot Biorefinery
Oosterhorn 4
9936 HD Delfzijl
Industriepark: Chemie Park Delfzijl
Science Park
Laboratory
Matrix Building 6
Science Park 408
1098 XH Amsterdam
Visiting Avantium
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Contact us
Avantium Headquarters
Zekeringstraat 29
1014 BV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
RAY Demonstration Plant
Oosterhorn 4
9936 HD Delfzijl
Industriepark: Chemie Park Delfzijl
YXY Pilot Plant
Urmonderbaan 22
6167 RD Geleen
Brightlands Chemelot Campus
DAWN Pilot Biorefinery
Oosterhorn 4
9936 HD Delfzijl
Industriepark: Chemie Park Delfzijl
Science Park
Laboratory
Matrix Building 6
Science Park 408
1098 XH Amsterdam
MEDIA
Press releases
Avantium and TNO partner to manufacture electrolyser test stations for green hydrogen production
AMSTERDAM, 15 April 2024, 18:00 hrs CEST – Avantium N.V., a leading company in renewable and circular polymer materials, today announces that its subsidiary Avantium R&D Solutions has signed a partnership agreement with The Netherlands Organisation for Applied...
Avantium releases agenda for 2024 Annual General Meeting
AMSTERDAM, 2 April 2024, 19:45 hrs CET – Avantium N.V., a leading company in renewable and circular polymer materials, has published its agenda for the upcoming Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM) to be held on 15 May 2024. The meeting documents, consisting...
Avantium publishes its 2023 Annual Report
AMSTERDAM, 25 March 2024, 18:00 hrs CET – Avantium N.V., a leading company in renewable and circular polymer materials, today published its 2023 Annual Report, outlining how Avantium creates value for its stakeholders. The Annual Report provides stakeholders an...
Avantium: Well Capitalised and Continued Good Progress in the Execution of its Strategy
AMSTERDAM, 20 March 2024, 22:00 hrs CET - Avantium N.V., a leading company in renewable and circular polymer materials, today reports its unaudited 2023 full year results. Tom van Aken, Chief Executive Officer of Avantium, said: "Avantium is fast approaching the...
Avantium announces the successful completion of its €70 million capital raise
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Avantium announces the launch of a fully underwritten rights offering of €50 million
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Avantium shareholders adopt all resolutions at 2024 Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders
AMSTERDAM, 24 January 2024, 18:00 hrs CET – Avantium N.V., a leading company in renewable and circular polymer materials, is pleased to announce that its shareholders have granted the requested approvals for all items on the agenda of today’s Extraordinary General...
Helios Resins signs multi-year capacity reservation agreement to purchase FDCA developed by Avantium
AMSTERDAM, 16 January 2024, 18:00 hrs CET – Avantium N.V., a leading company in renewable and circular polymer materials, announces that Helios Resins, a Slovenian based producer of advanced coating- and composite resins, has signed a capacity reservation agreement...
Avantium focuses on maximising the potential of its FDCA and PEF technology
AMSTERDAM, 13 December 2023, 07:00 hrs CET – Avantium N.V., a leading company in renewable and circular polymer materials, will provide an update on its progress, strategy and plans during a Capital Markets Day it will hold for institutional investors today at 10:00...
PANGAIA and Avantium partner to bring sustainable apparel collection based on Avantium’s 100% plant-based PEF to the market
AMSTERDAM, 29 November 2023, 18:00 hrs CET – Avantium N.V., a leading technology provider in renewable chemistry, announces that it will partner with PANGAIA, a purpose-driven materials science and apparel company. Under this partnership, PANGAIA will purchase...
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+31 (0)20 586 0110
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Technologies
End-of-life
of PEF
Avantium’s PEF is a 100% plant-based, 100% recyclable plastic with superior performance properties compared to today’s widely used petroleum-based packaging materials. PEF is designed for recycling and reusing and therefore it fits perfectly in a circular economy. PEF has a proven fit with existing sorting and recycling facilities. Recycling for PEF is very similar to PET recycling and trials have shown that the existing recycling systems are compatible to PEF, so no systems need to be developed. In addition PEF can easily be distinguished and sorted from PET and other plastics using optical sorting systems used today.
If human behavior results in unplanned and undesired leakage of PEF into our environment, first results of tests by Organic Waste Systems (OWS) (Gent, Belgium) show that PEF degrades much faster than PET under industrial composting conditions (250-400 days with air/oxygen @ 58°C in soil). The biodegradability of PEF under ambient conditions is under investigation (10-year field trial).
Applications and Markets
Film
From baby food pouches and medical fluid bags to transparent wrappers for dried food, Avantium Renewable Polymers is constantly exploring the enormous potential of PEF film. Thanks to its superior barrier properties, PEF film has the potential to have a significant impact on the flexible packaging materials market.
Packaging
PEF has the potential to replace various packaging materials such as PET, glass or aluminum in typical applications like bottles for soft drinks, water, alcoholic beverages and fruit juices. PEF provides improved barrier properties for carbon dioxide and oxygen, leading to a longer shelf life of packaged products. The ability to keep out oxygen, for example, results in longer-lasting carbonated drinks and extended shelf life.
Textiles
We are currently working with industry leaders to explore the future potential of PEF fibers in mainly high-value industrial fibers.
PEF & FDCA
PEF
PEF is a 100% plant-based and recyclable polymer with wide range of applications – packaging, textiles, film, and many more. It shows improved barrier properties for carbon dioxide and oxygen, leading to a longer shelf life of packaged products. It also offers higher mechanical strength, which means that thinner PEF packaging can be produced and fewer resources are required. In combination with the plant-based feedstock, that added functionality gives PEF all the attributes required to become the next-generation polyester, superior to the conventional PET.
Superior barrier properties:
- PEF’s oxygen barrier is 10 times better than PET
- PEF’s carbon dioxide barrier is 6 to 10 times better than PET
- PEF’s water barrier is twice as good as PET’s
More attractive thermal properties:
- The Tg of PEF is 86°C compared to the Tg of PET of 74°C
- The Tm of PEF is 235°C compared to the Tm of PET of 265°C
(Tg – glass transition temperature)
(Tm – melting point)
FDCA
The main building block for PEF is furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA). Given the huge potential of FDCA, industrial production of this building block has been pursued and researched for over 100 years, without success. As such, FDCA has been called ‘the sleeping giant’. Avantium believes that its YXY Technology can finally unlock the full potential of FDCA. The FDCA monomer offers exciting opportunities to create a wide range of polymers. These include polyesters, polyamides and polyurethanes as well as coating resins, plasticizers and other chemical products.
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Golden
sustainability
rules
Our approach to sustainability will be governed by the following principles. These are our ‘Golden Sustainability Rules’, placing our work towards a fossil-free world at the forefront of everything we do.
Sustainability Manifesto
The global climate breakdown demands an entirely new way of doing business, moving the world from its dependence on fossil-based resources towards a more sustainable future.
Avantium is focused specifically on accelerating that transition. In the Sustainability Manifesto, Avantuim lays out a pathway to achieving this mission. It sets out our approach to environmental best practice, social justice and transparency, as well as a roadmap of future activities.
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Sustainability Manifesto
The global climate breakdown demands an entirely new way of doing business, moving the world from its dependence on fossil-based resources towards a more sustainable future.
Avantium is focused specifically on accelerating that transition. In the Sustainability Manifesto, Avantuim lays out a pathway to achieving this mission. It sets out our approach to environmental best practice, social justice and transparency, as well as a roadmap of future activities.
READ SUSTAINABILITY MANIFESTO
Golden
sustainability
rules
Our approach to sustainability will be governed by the following principles. These are our ‘Golden Sustainability Rules’, placing our work towards a fossil-free world at the forefront of everything we do.
Help us build
a fossil free world.
This is a safe and vibrant workplace, where you can thrive and contribute to our mission to help build a fossil-free world. Join us and share your unconventional solutions to making a lasting impact.
WHAT WE DO
Catalysis
Avantium Catalysis specializes in innovations and technologies to accelerate catalytic R&D. We support companies in reaching their sustainability, profitability and growth targets by providing unique technology and catalysis research expertise.
Vacancies
Een groene én oranje belegging:
Ontmoet Avantium tijdens de Avantium Particuliere Beleggersdag in Amsterdam
Avantium nodigt particuliere beleggers van harte uit voor de Avantium Particuliere Beleggersdag op dinsdagmiddag 4 februari 2020 op het hoofdkantoor van Avantium in Amsterdam. Iedereen die graag wil investeren in Nederlandse innovaties en een positieve impact op de wereld nastreeft, is welkom. Want een belegging in Avantium is zowel groen als oranje!
Agenda
15:30 Inloop en registratie
16:00 Key note presentatie van CEO Tom van Aken
16:45 Pauze
17:00 Roterende beurs met presentaties en rondleiding door het laboratorium van ieder 15 minuten
18:30 Afsluiting en borrel
Particuliere beleggers die geïnteresseerd zijn in het bijwonen van dit evenement en op de hoogte willen worden gehouden van de agenda en andere informatie, kunnen zich hier registreren.
Registratie
draft
AMSTERDAM, 26 August 2019, 07:00 CET – Avantium N.V. announces that it has been awarded €6 million as part of a SPIRE grant to accelerate its Dawn and Mekong technologies in addition to utilizing its expertise in Catalysis. SPIRE, part of Horizon2020, is the European subsidy programme to facilitate the region’s Sustainable Process Industry. Avantium will participate in a 4-year research programme entitled IMPRESS starting in September 2019. Avantium will lead the IMPRESS consortium consisting of ten industry and academic organisations across Europe. The consortium received a total SPIRE grant of €13 million.
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Partners
Our history
Avantium was founded in February 2000 as a spin-off from Shell. The objective was to accelerate and exploit the application of high-throughput R&D, initially developed by Shell for Catalysis research, across a range of industries. An international consortium of strategic, financial and university partners joined to set up Avantium as a technology company specialized in high-throughput R&D.
During the first years of our existence, our strategic aim was to apply high-throughput technology across a range of applications and industries. We invested significant resources both to advance the technology we acquired when we separated from Shell and to develop new systems and associated software. After the inception period, Avantium decided to focus on providing high-throughput technology-based R&D services to companies in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. In 2005 we started to also offer R&D systems to our customers, because customers had shown interest in applying our high-throughput techniques in their own laboratories.
While continuing to successfully expand our services and systems business, we made the strategic decision in 2005 to leverage our expertise in high-throughput R&D by initiating our own proprietary development programs. This was the beginning of the plant-to-plastics YXY Technology to produce FDCA and PEF.
In 2011, Avantium was the first company to build a FDCA pilot plant in Geleen with a nameplate capacity of 15 ta FDCA. In 2015, FDCA was adopted by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). In August 2016, FDCA was included in the Plastics Regulation as a food contact material. On 30 November 2016. Avantium established with BASF a 49/51 joint venture Synvina, to commercialize the YXY Technology. In May 2017, Synvina received interim approval from the European PET Bottle Platform for the integration of PEF through existing recovery and recycling systems for PEF resin. In June 2017, an industry consortium under the leadership of Synvina, was awarded a €25 million EU grant. The grant supports the establishment of an innovative value chain for bio-based raw materials as well as chemicals and materials based on PEF. In January 2019 Avantium regained full ownership of Synvina and in June 2019 the business unit was renamed to Avantium Renewable Polymers.
In 2011, Avantium divested its pharmaceutical business, which became an independent company called Crystallics that relocated to the business park Amsterdam Medical Center. In 2015, Avantium sold its crystallization systems business to Technobis. With this divestment, Avantium has become a focused company in the field of technology and renewable chemicals.
Renewable Chemistries is Avantium’s business unit with a portfolio of innovative technology projects focusing on the conversion of biomass to chemical building blocks and green materials like plastics. The company currently has three technologies at pilot and demonstration phase.
The most advanced technology is the YXY® plant-to-plastics–technology that was initially developed by the Renewable Chemistries team. The second technology is the DAWN Technology™ that converts non-food biomass into industrial sugars and lignin in order to transition the chemicals and materials industries to non-fossil resources. Avantium launched DAWN Technology™ in July 2018, with the opening of its pilot biorefinery in Delfzijl, the Netherlands. The technology is supported by a consortium consisting of Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel), energy company RWE, the Dutch forestry agency Staatsbosbeheer and Chemport Europe. Each consortium member brings specific expertise to the planned commercial scale biorefinery. The third technology is called RAY and catalytically converts industrial sugars to plant-based MEG (mono-ethylene glycol). Avantium is scaling up its Ray Technology™ and the demonstration plant in Delfzijl, the Netherlands opened on November 7, 2019. The Volta program is in pre-pilot stage. The Volta electrochemistry platform enables converting CO2 into chemicals and fuels using renewable electricity. In December 2016, Avantium acquired the assets (IP, know-how and hardware) from Liquid Light.
On 15 March 2017, Avantium successfully completed the IPO of Avantium. Avantium’s shares are listed on Euronext Amsterdam and Euronext Brussels (symbol: AVTX). Its offices and headquarters are in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
We take care of each other
In Avantium, we are working to enrich our knowledge and understanding and to change our behavior. Therefore, we will immerse ourselves in a new safety theme every three months. A few examples of the quarterly safety themes that we have had so far:
- Giving and accepting feedback
- The acknowledgement and recognition of unsafe situations
- Electrical awareness
- Housekeeping
Safety first
Safety is our highest priority in everything that we do. All Avantium employees committed to a list of so-called Golden Safety Rules. These rules remind us every single day that we take safety very serious in Avantium. We have implemented our Golden Safety Rules, we have procedures, we have good safety systems in place, but we all know that it requires continuous attention and awareness (behavior & culture) to make sure that we operate in a safe manner.
Golden safety rules
We are responsible of our own safety and that of others
We give and accept feedback, we ask when in doubt
We learn from our mistakes and those of others
We take the time to work in a safe way
We make sure our work area is clean and tidy
We use the right protective equipment
We assure immediate containment of unsafe situations
We report every unsafe situation
Applications and Markets
Film
From baby food pouches and medical fluid bags to transparent wrappers for dried food, Avantium Renewable Polymers is constantly exploring the enormous potential of PEF film. Thanks to its superior barrier properties, PEF film has the potential to have a significant impact on the flexible packaging materials market.
Packaging
PEF has the potential to replace various packaging materials such as PET, glass or aluminum in typical applications like bottles for soft drinks, water, alcoholic beverages and fruit juices. PEF provides improved barrier properties for carbon dioxide and oxygen, leading to a longer shelf life of packaged products. The ability to keep out oxygen, for example, results in longer-lasting carbonated drinks and extended shelf life.
Textiles
We are currently working with industry leaders to explore the future potential of PEF fibers in mainly high-value industrial fibers.