1. Biopark Terneuzen leads the way
Biopark Terneuzen represents a new thinking in the creation of agro-
industrial sustainability. Extending the earlier concepts of technology
collectives, it raises the platform to a higher level. Under the ‘Smart Link’
name, Biopark Terneuzen promotes and facilitates the exploitation of key
synergies between businesses located in the same geographic area.
Specifically, it helps to maximise the potential of the exchange and use
of each other’s by- and waste products which then become feedstock,
energy or utility supplements for their own production processes.
“The answer to a global challenge
begins with a local solution”
Hans van der Hart, CEO Zeeland Seaports

2. An open door to the future
Biopark Terneuzen is a work in progress and welcomes
the participation of any producer or supplier company,
local or international, seeking to contribute to and
benefit from sustainable development. Adding your
name, expertise and vision to its growing list of partners
could be the next most important strategic decision
you take for the future of your business.
Your enquiry for further information will be welcomed.
Rotterdam
Please visit us at:
www.bioparkterneuzen.com
Or for direct contact, touch base with: Vlissingen
Project Agency Biopark Terneuzen
P.O. Box 132
4530 AC Terneuzen
Terneuzen
The Netherlands
Antwerpen
Tel: +31 115 64 74 00
Fax: +31 115 64 75 00
E-mail: bioparkterneuzen@zeeland-seaports.com
Biopark Terneuzen Partners
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International provider of food, agricultural Producer of sustainable, biodegradable
and risk management products and services diesel for the European market
Joint venture between Zeeland Seaports
European transporter of dry and liquid and Dow Benelux, hub for chemical
products, importer and exporter of production and distribution
fertilizers and biomass
The world’s largest supplier of
International biofuels tank storage mineral fertilizer
and logistics company
Recycler of waste and residual products
HEROS
GROEP
Leading producer of bioethanol
(ethyl alcohol) from agricultural products

3. Bio-complementary partnerships are the future
By converting waste streams into Smart Links, Biopark Terneuzen’s partners
are able to capitalise on residual values that would otherwise go unused.
Importantly for businesses smart linking can:
• Eliminate storage and disposal costs
• Lower environmental taxes
• Optimise production costs
• Improve profitability
In the wider context these bio-complementary partnerships combine to help:
• Conserve non-renewable resources
• Exploit the recoverable value of resources after first use
• Reduce the waste and pollution burden on the atmospheric and physical
environments
• Contribute to the sustainability of future industrial growth
Building Smart Links
into the sustainability Chain
Increasing economic efficiency, conserving resources and preserving the environment

4. Best practice in action
WarmCO2 delivers more than just hot air
Within the Biopark Terneuzen framework, WarmCO2, The CO2 is also delivered by pipeline. This gas is very
a co-operation between Zeeland Seaports, Yara and pipe clean and offers the same purity level as manufactured
installer Visser & Smit Hanab, is successfully delivering liquid CO2.
value added ‘second-life’ resources to a major horticul-
tural greenhouse nursery in the local area. The resources Through the wealth of the combined industrial and
comprise water for heating and CO2 for enrichment of horticultural knowledge of its partners, WarmCO2
the nursery’s atmosphere used to improve crop growth. ensures that the distribution of resources is optimised.
Charged at competitive rates, this exchange has shown
The water supply is the cooling water outflow from to be beneficial for both provider and user. That’s a
Yara’s heat exchangers, where it has collected heat win-win result for industry and the environment.
from the company’s production processes. Through a
dedicated piping system the water reaches the nursery
complex at an average temperature of 87˚C, sufficient to
provide nursery heating adjustable to suit all conditions.
Sustainability is our biggest challenge yet
Sustainable growth, in the context of good stewardship of the environment
and its resources, is the biggest ongoing challenge facing politicians and
industry leaders. Everyone knows what needs to be done, the difficulty is
in finding effective and economic ways to do it.
Zeeland Seaports has identified a route that provides a uniquely innovative
solution. Meeting the needs of industry and the environment and, equally
important, the needs of the community, Biopark Terneuzen was establis-
hed in February 2007. Although still at an early stage of development, this
solution is already delivering positive results for its participants and other
stakeholders, who are forging a chain of sustainable businesses.

5. Demonstrating confidence... and commitment
Many companies are already participating in Biopark Terneuzen and actively
engaged in mutually beneficial long term projects. For example Rosendaal
Energy (biodiesel), Nedalco (alcohol and bioethanol), Cargill (food starches)
and Yara (ammonia and mineral fertilisers) are “connected” with piping
systems to exchange and re-use by- and waste products as feedstock, energy
or utility supplements.
These schemes involve:
• Cargill providing residual starch, purified water, power and compressed air
to Nedalco
• Yara supplying waste heat and CO2 to a local horticultural greenhouse park
• Rosendaal Energy delivering water to the recycler Heros
Smart Links between other members are also being tested
or in the planning stage.
Greenhouse com-
plex
Heat
CO2
Biomass
Power plant HEROS
GROEP
Biomass
Water
Electricity
Steam
Starch

6. Biopark Terneuzen Knowledge Associates
In the ongoing development of its sustainability model, Biopark
Terneuzen works together with a number of academic institutions.
These assist in investigating potential Smart Links between Biopark
participants and in mapping-out the technical, commercial, organisational
and practical conditions for their implementation.
In addition, Biopark Terneuzen has close ties with Bio-Energy Valley in Ghent,
Belgium, a joint initiative involving Ghent University, the City of Ghent, the
Port of Ghent, the Development Agency of East-Flanders and a number of
industrial companies related to the Ghent region that are active in the fields
of bioenergy generation and its distribution, storage and use.
Skilled workforce in-place
Biopark Terneuzen is at the heart of Zeeland’s economic hub. The area has
an established industrial base that includes engineering, shipbuilding, electri-
cal and petrochemicals industries. In addition Zeeland has a growing services
sector, as well as a rapidly expanding horticultural industry that is pushing the
boundaries of technology in the improvement of crop sizes and quality.
Necessarily this background has given rise to a large, skilled workforce which
is continuously increasing from the region’s excellent technical schools and
training centres. This resource compares with the best to be found anywhere
in Europe. And, in term of numbers, range of skills and dedication, the
available workforce is fully able to satisfy and sustain the demands
of future industrial growth.
An ideal trading location
Zeeland Seaports is one of the initiators of the Biopark Canal. It serves both the global liner routes and Euro-
Terneuzen project. It is a logical extension of its overall pe’s inland waterways, currently around 7,000 ships and
management and development responsibility for the 23,000 inland vessels per year, handling the full range of
merged ports and port areas of Terneuzen and Flushing cargoes, break bulk, liquids and containers.
(Vlissingen).
Zeeland Seaports also offers first class road, pipeline and
Zeeland Seaports, strategically located on the Wester- rail links to and from the hinterland of Europe thereby
scheldt estuary between Rotterdam and Antwerp, has an providing an ideal trading and transportation hub for
open connection to the North Sea and the Rhine-Scheldt local, national and international businesses.