Renewable Materials Conference

The Renewable Materials Conference (RMC) is an international meeting place for innovators, companies, brands, investors and policymakers. Organiser, the nova-Institute, expects 400–500 participants from around the world.

The theme of this year's edition is defossilisation through innovation. Defossilisation – the substitution of fossil carbon in chemicals and materials with bio-, CO₂- and recycling-based renewables – offers strategies to secure market access and guide investors and financial institutions towards portfolios with long-term profitability. The event provides a platform to explore these opportunities, address uncertainties and help companies build a future-proof, competitive position in the renewable economy.

Topics under this umbrella are: 

• Defossilisation of the chemical industry

• Fossil-free plastics

• Policy and framework, regenerative business models

Moreover, our EU Affairs Lead, Estela Lopez-Hermoso, will take the stage as a speaker at the stakeholder workshop "Making bio-based textiles competitive: policy levers for industrial scale-up and market uptake ", on 23rd September from 9:20 - 10:50, accompanied by:

• René Bethmann (VAUDE): Market access challenges from the brand perspective, focussing on the ESPR

• Alessandro Milani (Sapienza Università di Roma): Stakeholder perspectives on biobased innovations, interview results and learnings

• Tom Claessen (Circular Plastics NL): Market player analysis and impact of higher prices across the textile value chain

  Estela will share the latest on EU Directives and Guidelines, focusing on the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) and what it means for the textile value chain. 

Click here to register for the RMC