Ben Mckay
Vice President Innovation
Chemistry
Avantium
Netherlands
Biography
As VP Innovation,he is currently leading our effort to develop and commercialise a process for the production of second generation sugars from lignocellulosic biomass, the ZAMBEZI process: A best in class process, offering high purity 2G glucose for bio-based chemical production, at a cost competitive with 1G starch-based glucose. Further, he is embedded in our Renewable Chemistries “incubator” group, which is working on an exciting portfolio of other new bio-based chemical processes.
Research Interest
Polymers, Catalysis, green chemistry, bio-based chemical production, biomass