Green is the future of chemistry : report of Taminco’s second Green Footsteps Event at the i-SUP 2012

At the third edition of the international conference "Innovation for Sustainable Production 2012" (i-SUP 2012) in Bruges (Belgium), Taminco’s second Green Footsteps Event was held (May 7, 2012) [1]. The aim of this meeting is to create an open innovation platform in order to stimulate creative thinking in Taminco’s business areas where green chemistry principles have a significant impact. Such principles have already been integrated in Taminco’s current business strategy and are introduced at the early stages of the product/process development cycle. However, research in green chemistry and engineering is still gaining momentum and new important discoveries are made rapidly [2]. This event gave a nice platform to discuss the trends which are both of interest in academia and industry