Business idea bioplastic for the packing industry wins the Dutch CleanTech Challenge

On Monday 3 April 2017 the final competition of the Dutch CleanTech Challenge took place at YES!Delft. The Dutch CleanTech challenge is a business competition linked to a course given by Delft Centre for Entrepreneurship (TU Delft).

During the finals, six selected teams presented their business ideas in front of a jury consisting of:

And the winner is...

The winning team was selected based on a stunning presentation on their business idea called PHB-D, an innovative way of producing bioplastics for the packaging industry. The team members Felix Koenigs, Vidhvath Viswanathan, and Jelmer Smits won 1500 Euro prize money from the Energy Club (to further develop their idea), coaching from Leon Pulles from StartGreen Capital, and tickets to the international competition in London sponsored by the LDE Centre for Sustainability.

The audience prize of 500 Euro was also given to the PHB-D team.

Winners LDE Centre for Sustainability Cleantech Challenge 2017
Winners Cleantech Challenge 2017

Second prize

Two teams were selected for the second prize, which consisted of coaching by Leon Pulles from StartGreen Capital. This prize was given to 3Cycle, a RSM team working on recycling 3D printing waste into new filaments to be used for 3D printing (RSM team: Felix Johne, Sjors Barandsma, Steven Polak, Sven van der Knaap).

The second team who received a prize was ROTEC, a team working on combining Ocean Thermal Energy Convertion and Reverse Osmosis into an affordable solution to turn sea water into drinking water. In addition, this team also received a one year membership of the CleanTech Delta. (TU Delft team: Kizjee Marif, Timo Veldt, Machiel van der Veer, Roy Smits and Fabian Koppes).

Join the challenge

Are you interested in joining the challenge next year? Write an e-mail to our Module Manager Esther Blog: e.m.blom@tudelft.nl. For more info, visit the website: http://www.cleantechchallenge.nl/