Holland Turkey Business Forum 2014: Innovation

Theme of this year’s Business Forum was “Innovation”, a perfect match with the Amsterdam ArenA because of their prominent role in the development and implementation of new technologies and services in its stadium in Amsterdam and in its projects all over the world. 
After Chairman Dutch Trade Board Working Group Turkey, Head of Marketing for Business Clients ING Netherlands, mr. Ben van de Vrie opened the program two ambassadors promoted business between the both countries:

• H.E. Ron Keller, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the Republic of Turkey
• H.E. Sadik Arslan, Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to the Kingdom of the Netherlands

Peet de Bruijn joined the parallel session Agri & Food, were also was pointed the strong relation with renewable energy such as geothermic- en bio-energy and circular economy (fertilizers).

Indian Researchers

Eight researchers from Indian Universities and Institutes visited Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. This program is part of the European-Indian SAHYOG cooperation. Monday 7th April they were guest at the Netherlands Enterprise Agency were Dutch Waste Management presented the Dutch Waste Policy. In the afternoon we also visited the Attero-VAR location in Wilp. After a company presentation we've made a location trip with several innovative waste to energy processes, such as an anaerobic digester.

Netherlands-China Trade and Economic Forum

Dutch Waste Management was invited on Sunday 23^rd March 2014 at the Netherlands-China Trade and Economic Forum in Noordwijk (the Netherlands), where China President Xi Jinping was present with a large delegation, along with King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and a large delegation of business from both the Netherlands and China (250 companies and institutions).President Xi said, “just as China needs to learn more about the world, the world needs to learn more about China”
He said China welcomes Dutch enterprises to engage in China’s reform and development and jointly share opportunities. 
He also encouraged more established Chinese enterprises to invest in the Netherlands.

Xi Jinping said he hopes the two sides can settle trade disputes properly, and promote healthy development of China-EU trade. He also noted the Netherlands has been China’s second largest trading partner in the EU for 11 consecutive years.

King Willem-Alexander echoed Xi Jinping’s words, and said that his country is willing to step up mutually beneficial cooperation and further promote trade.

During the opening ceremony, witnessed by the leaders of China and Netherlands, representatives of enterprises from the two countries signed 8 cooperative agreements involving finance, science and technology, and agricultural cooperation, which amounted to about USD 2 billion. 

After the opening ceremony, the Forum held a plenary session, which was co-held by Sun Chenghai, the Director-general of the Foreign Trade Development Bureau of China, and the Director-general of the Netherlands Bureau of Enterprises. 5 entrepreneurs from Bank of China, Yili Group, Netherlands Association of Employers, DSM and Royal Dutch Shell made speeches at the session on behalf of other entrepreneurs, talking about China-Netherland Cooperation.

During the network lunch some new partnerships on waste to energy were made between Dutch Waste Management and Chinese companies and institutions.

Final SAHYOG Conference and Brokerage Event on Bio-economy

The final SAHYOG Conference and Brokerage Event on Bio-economy is organized in New Delhi, India, on 3-4 February 2014. The conference is organized by SAHYOG in cooperation with TERI and the European Commission.

Dutch Waste Management member Peet de Bruijn presented his vision on the Biobased Economy integrated in Waste Management. His vision was also discussed with Dr Rajendra K Pachauri,  who has been serving as the chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 during his tenure.

It takes place on the occasion of the 14th Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) on 6-8 February 2014. The DSDS, convened annually by the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), is an international gathering that facilitates a vital exchange of the ideas, knowledge, lessons and awareness needed for the sustainable development of India and the world.

Introduction platform

Dutch Waste Management is a cutting-edge platform of specialists and companies for Waste Water and Energy innovations based on developed icon projects in the Netherlands in the last decades.
Since the start of this platform,several innovative projects have been developed, such as:

- Smart Energy Grid based on biomass
- Compliance Model Waste Water and Energy regions
- Energy Potential Mapping
- Waste separation concepts
- Anaerobic Digestion
- Feasibility studies EU/Horizon2020 - Worldbank/IFC Ukraine