We’ve got the resources.
www.biocampus-straubing.de
Straubing - Region of renewable Raw Materials
Markus Pannermayr
Alfred Reisinger
Mayor of Straubing
District Administrator of Straubing-Bogen
Business Start-up Center with the BioCubator in Straubing-Sand
We’ve got the resources Renewable raw materials are in great demand. It is not only the utilization of biomass for energy purposes that is awakening the interest of the markets for new resources, but to an increasing degree also the material utilization of renewable raw materials. Straubing has gained an excellent position in this scenario. Thanks to the decisive advantage of its location, the region of renewable raw materials is attracting an ever growing number of companies. Another field of competence that also catches the eye in addition to the scientific facilities of our Competence Center for Renewable Raw Materials and the infrastructural opportunities offered by our BioCubator: our region is in a position to provide millions of tons of biomass.
Welcome to the region of renewable raw materials Our company is facing great challenges. A key issue of the 21st century is the sustainable production of raw materials for energy and materials that go beyond fossil raw materials. Scientists and entrepreneurs alike can find answers to these challenges in Straubing, the region of renewable raw materials. The core competences of the Lower Bavarian town of Straubing include the supply, characterisation and processing of biomass.
Enormous demand for biomass
What we cannot find in the Lower Bavarian Gäuboden or the Bavarian Forest we obtain via the Danube. So it is not surprising that the Port of Straubing is developing into a European hub for biomass logistics. It handled a record 4 million tons of goods last year and we have by no means reached the extent of our capacities. And what about the markets? They are showing dynamic growth with renewable raw materials starting to penetrate even established sectors of industry such as mechanical engineering and the chemical industry.
The use of renewable raw materials for energy and material purposes is inducing an enormous demand for biomass. And where better do these new raw materials thrive than in the Straubing Gäuboden, the fertile alluvial land along the Danube? It has always been these fruitful fields, which count among the best in Europe, that Straubing has to thank for its economic power. In the bordering Bavarian Forest immediately to the north of the Danube we find what is arguably the most important renewable raw material: wood.
The availability of biomass is guaranteed in Straubing - the region of renewable raw materials. For the future this capability ranks as the key competence where a change in raw materials in the direction of bioeconomy is concerned and for the establishment of attractive industrial locations.
In the largest contiguous forest area of Central Europe the region can boast wood growth rates of up to 8m3 a minute. What is more, the Danube connects Straubing with the arable areas of ten neighbouring states along the Danube, a new European
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macroregion. The combination of forestry and agricultural areas surrounding Straubing plus the Danube Port of Straubing mean there is no problem whatsoever in supplying millions of tons of biomass for scientific and commercial use.
Competence Center for Renewable Raw Materials Biogenic resources are characterised with regard to their optimum utilization, research is carried out into innovative technologies and processes which are developed in cooperation with industry to a marketable commodity in the Straubing „Competence Center for Renewable Raw Materials“. The three pillars of this Competence Center include the Straubing Center of Science (WZS), the Technology and Support Center (WZS) and the central marketing agency C.A.R.M.E.N. e.V. The Center of Science, where the activities include among
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Technical Center of Süd-Chemie AG, which is constructing a demonstration plant for the production of second generation bioethanol (cellulose ethanol) in Straubing-Sand
Mayor Markus Pannermayr and the BioCampus Straubing GmbH company car that runs on bioehtanol
Biomass logistics is the core business in the Danube Port of Straubing-Sand
others those of the Technical University of Munich, the University of Applied sciences Weihenstephan and the Fraunhofer project group BioCAT, offers a masters degree course in „Renewable Resources“. Its infrastructure, knowledge base and cluster of renewable raw materials managed by the BioCampus Straubing GmbH are locational advantages that make the region of Straubing clearly predestined for the processing and refining of biomass along the whole value creation chain.
Industrial processing of rapeseed, wood and beet A multitude of companies in the region, such as ADM Spyck GmbH (Straubing plant) are achieving just such value creation. Rapeseed is received here from the all over the European Danube region; it is then processed to rapeseed oil and transported by rail to mineral oil refineries for transesterification. H. Hiendl GmbH & Co. KG produces among other things innovative profile materials, so-called WoodPolymer-Compounds (WPC) with a wood fibre content of 70% made of wood from the Bavarian Forest. Südzucker AG and
Südstärke GmbH use sugar beet or rather starch potatoes from the fertile arable land of the Gäuboden for the production of foodstuffs, bioenergy or binding agents and adhesives for industry. The latest example of profile building in the field of industrial research is the settlement of Süd-Chemie AG. The global player from Munich is currently constructing the largest
Prof. Volker Sieber, Chair for Chemistry of Biogenic Raw Materials, TU Munich and Head of the Fraunhofer project Group BioCat. He and his team are optimising processes and products in Straubing for the chemical and energy industries among others. On the right: the Center of Science in Straubing.
Top address for relocating and setting up business
Federal Minister Ilse Aigner and District Administrator Alfred Reisinger both agree that commitment to Straubing - the region of renewable raw materials - is simply „catching“.
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demonstration plant for the production of climate-friendly second generation bioethanol in the Straubing Sand Industrial Park. Production is based on the agricultural waste product cereal straw from the Gäuboden. Many medium-sized companies also benefit from the infrastructure advantages offered by the competence region for renewable raw materials. In addition you can find a whole series of biogas plants in the area, which use energy feedstock that grows here for the production of electricity, heat as well as bio-natural gas (IHB Bioenergie GmbH, Schmack Biogas GmbH). All these companies have realised that by working together they can enhance the benefits they achieve from the synergy effects along the whole value creation chain.
The Free State of Bavaria and the Straubing-Bogen region continue to invest in the infrastructure of this promising sector. The BioCubator was built in the immediate vicinity of the Business Start-up Centre Straubing-Sand with funds from the Bavarian High-Tech Offensive. The BioCubator offers companies active in the commercial utilization of biomass attractive laboratory, office and technology facilities and it goes without saying in a building constructed primarily from renewable raw materials.
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Green Chemistry Belt
Clusterpartner STraubing - Region of renewable Raw materials ADM Spyck GmbH · Werk Straubing
Gemeinde Aiterhofen
Netzwerk Ostbayern e.V.
www.adm.com
www.aiterhofen.de
www.netzwerk-ostbayern.com
advotec. Patent- und Rechtsanwälte
H. Hiendl GmbH & Co. KG
Ostbayerisches Technologie-Transfer-Institut e.V. (OTTI)
www.advotec.de
agnion Technologies www.agnion.de
Handwerkskammer Niederbayern-Oberpfalz
www.paradigma-straubing.de
www.bauernpower.org
Bayerische BioEnergie GmbH
www.hwkno.de
www.sensopower.com
www.baybe.de
Hochschule Deggendorf - Technologie Campus Freyung - Cluster Bayonik
PLANKO-BIO-NET GmbH & CO KG
www.biom-wb.com
www.technologiecampus-freyung.de
regineering - Duft & Innerhofer GbR
Birk und Partner AG
Holger Frischhut Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister, Energieberater (HWK)
www.regineering.com
www.birk-partner.de
B&P Energy Business KG www.bp-energy-business.de
www.frischhut.eu
BW-Therm Brunner Werksvertretungen
IHB Bioenergie GmbH
www.bw-therm.de
www.ihb-bioenergie.de
C.A.R.M.E.N. e.V.
in-TRUST Aktiengesellschaft für Kapitalmanagement
www.carmen-ev.de
Chemie-Cluster Bayern www.chemiecluster-bayern.de
Dr. Reuthlinger & Breig und Partner GdbR
Cluster as a platform for industry and science The „Straubing Cluster of Renewable Raw Materials“ is sponsored by the Bavarian Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry and supported by the Sparkasse Niederbayern-Mitte. The Cluster constitute a platform for companies and scientific institutions. The goal is to promote the material and energy utilization of renewable raw materials along the whole value creation chain. The distinctive profiling in the field of supply, characterisation and processing of renewable raw materials plus the newly developed joint umbrella brand „Straubing - the region of renewable raw materials” has made it possible to awake the interest of companies nationwide for the utilisation of renewable raw materials. Team of the Cluster for Renewable Raw Materials, from the left: Claudia Kirchmair, Dr. Raimund Brotsack and Andreas Löffert
In competition with other regions Straubing has emerged as a model region. The support of the „Cluster for Renewable Raw Materials“ means that the potential for business activities will be expanded and doors opened for cooperations throughout the whole of Europe. The joint action of the partners from politics, industry and science creates a decisive competitive edge in Straubing.
Availability of biomass the key for a change in raw materials in the direction of bio-based raw materials The call for a change in raw materials away from fossil and in the direction of renewable raw materials is inducing an enormous demand for bio-based raw materials for industrial production. These raw materials can be obtained at the Straubing location from the Gäuboden, the Bavarian Forest the whole of the Danube region. Raw materials are made from plants in several processing steps all along the Danube in decentralised facilities for „green chemistry„ (Green Chemistry Belt). So the availability of bio-based raw materials creates potential for value creation in the bioeconomy for both Straubing and the whole Danube region.
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www.otti.de
Paradigma Deutschland GmbH
BioM WB GmbH
The „Green Chemistry Belt“
Iris Biotech GmbH www.iris-biotech.de
BauernPower
we`ve got the resources
www.hiendl.de
www.reuthlinger.de
Eco-Werk Peter Niedermeyer www.eco-werk.de
Energieagentur Regensburg e.V. www.energieagentur-regensburg.de
Enviva Pellets / 1Heiz-Holzpellets www.1heiz-pellets.com
Fachgebiet für Marketing und Management Nachwachsender Rohstoffe am Wissenschaftszentrum Straubing;
www.in-trust.de
Industrie- und Handelskammer für Niederbayern in Passau www.ihk-niederbayern.de
INM - Leibniz-Institut für Neue Materialien www.inm-gmbh.de
Institut für Umwelt und Boden GmbH & Co. KG www.umwelt-boden.de
IVV Fraunhofer-Institut für Verfahrenstechnik und Verpackung www.ivv.fraunhofer.de
Karl Lausser
Phytobiotics www.PLANKO.de
Schmack Biogas GmbH www.schmack-biogas.de
Schmidmeier NaturEnergie www.schmidmeier.com
SENNEBOGEN Maschinenfabrik GmbH www.sennebogen.de
Sparkasse Niederbayern-Mitte www.sparkasse-niederbayern-mitte.de
Stadt Straubing Tiefbau, Entwässerungsbetrieb www.straubing.de
Süd-Chemie AG www.sud-chemie.com
Südstärke GmbH www.suedstaerke.de
Technische Universität München Lehrstuhl für Chemie Biogener Rohstoffe www.wz-straubing.de
Technische Universität München, Lehrstuhl für Rohstoff- und Energietechnologie
Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften, Fachhochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf www.wz-straubing.de
www.lausser.de
Fachgebiet für Ökonomie Nachwachsender Rohstoffe am Wissenschaftszentrum Straubing;
www.bta-straubing.de
Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften, Fachhochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf www.wz-straubing.de
Lehrstuhl Agrarsystemtechnik, Technische Universität München
Thomas Scheermann
www.tec.wzw.tum.de
Umweltcluster Bayern
Fakultät für Chemie und Pharmazie, Universität Regensburg www.sustainable-chemistry.de
Fraunhofer IGB, Projektgruppe BioCat
Kommunale Berufsfachschule für biologisch-technische Assistenten KW PV und Bioenergie www.kw-pvundbioenergie.de
Life Science Innovation Consulting www.life-science-innovation-consulting.com
MR Niederbayern GmbH
www.wz-straubing.de
www.mr-niederbayern.de
Fraunhofer Institut für Chemische Technologie
www.naturhaus.net
Naturhaus Naturfarben GmbH
www.rohstofftechnologie.de
Technologie- und Förderzentrum im Kompetenzzentrum für Nachwachsende Rohstoffe www.tfz.bayern.de www.thomas-scheermann.de www.umweltcluster.net
Unternehmensberatung Salzig www.unternehmensberatung-salzig.de
Viessmann www.viessmann.com
Weber GmbH
www.ict.fraunhofer.de
Netzwerk Bioenergieregion Straubing
Fraunhofer Zentrum für chemischbiotechnologische Prozesse CBP
www.bioenergie.straubing-bogen.de
Netzwerk Forst und Holz
Zweckverband Abfallwirtschaft Straubing Stadt und Land
www.igb.fraunhofer.de
www.holzregion-bayerischer-wald.de
www.zaw-sr.de
www.weber-projekte.de
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Promoted by: Bavarian Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forestry
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