How does it work?

To make our YXY building blocks we use a novel, proprietary production process developed by Avantium. We convert carbohydrates, using a chemical production process, into green materials an fuels. Carbohydrates are the most abundantly available source of carbon on earth. YXY building blocks for green materials and fuels can compete on price and performance with conventional products.

 

Read more about YXY materials and YXY fuels

 

In the heart of our process is the catalyst that enables the conversion of carbohydrates into our YXY building blocks. Read more about YXY process chemistry

 

Our production process offers numerous benefits: it is an efficient, fast, low-cost production route and it can be produced in existing chemical production plants. To roll out the YXY technology to produce green building blocks you can build new production plants on basis of our technology, but you can also retrofit existing assets.

 

Scale up

Avantium will bring Furanics to large-scale production, working closely with its partners. Avantium has a YXY pilot plant at the Chemelot site in Geleen, the Netherlands.The objective of this pilot plant is to optimize the production process and to demonstrate the process at larger scale, as well as the production of trial quantities of YXY for product development purposes. Read more about the scale up

 

True eco-nomics!

Every industry can therefore manufacture everyday products in an eco-friendly manner by implementing YXY technology in their current production processes. We call that true eco-nomics! Read more about process economics

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YXY is advancing step by step. Read about our news, events, developments and progress here.