Der Wald ist mit dem Holz die wichtigste Quelle nachwachsender Rohstoffe. Die Landwirtschaft produziert mit den Ölsaaten wie Sonnenblume, Lein, Raps u.a. sowie mit Zuckerrübe, Mais und andern Feldfrüchten wichtige nachwachsende Rohstoffe. Unter Nutzung der Syntheseleistung der Natur können daraus in der chemischen Industrie wichtige Produkte für unsere Zivilisation gewonnen werden. Ein Ziel der Agenda 21 ist die Förderung der umweltverträglichen und nachhaltigen Nutzung erneuerbarer natürlicher Ressourcen. Bis 2030 sollen immerhin 25% der Gesamtproduktion organischer Chemikalien auf der Basis von nachwachsenden Rohstoffen produziert werden. Die notwendigen chemischen Prozesse, die zum Erreichen dieses Ziels notwendig sind, stehen noch lange nicht zur Verfügung. Deshalb ist Grundlagen- und Angewandte Forschung zur chemischen Transformation von Biomasse zu nützlichen Produkten, die bisher aus Erdöl hergestellt wurden, drin­gend geboten. Denn Erdöl ist ein nicht erneuerbarer Rohstoff, der bald nicht mehr zur Verfügung stehen wird. Der von Menschen verursachte Klimawandel ist ein Tagesthema in unseren Nachrichten. Verstärkte Nutzung nachwachsender Rohstoffe kann dazu beitragen, den Klimawandel zu verlangsamen und sogar zu stoppen.

• 14 November 2024:
  The 13^th Workshop on “Fats and Oils as Renewable Feedstock for the Chemical Industry” is taking place 8 – 10 June, 2026 in Dortmund, Germany



• 03 – 05 June 2024: 12^th Workshop on Fats and Oils as Re newable Feedstock for the Chemical Industry in Dortmund, Germany:
  The complete program including posters is now online and can be downloaded. (more...)



• 20 April 2023:
  The Special Issue: Fats and Oils as Renewable Feedstock for the Chemical Industry of Eur. J. Lipid Sci. Techn. is being published in May 2023 containing research articles based on contributions to the 11^th Workshop on Fats and Oils as Renewable Feedstock for the Chemical Industry and an editorial by Ursula Biermann, Jürgen O. Metzger and Thomas Seidensticker. The editorial can be downloaded here.



• May 30 — June 01, 2022: 11^th Workshop ,,Fats and Oils as Renewable Feedstock for the Chemical Industry" in Dortmund:
  The Program including Lectures and Posters has been launched. (more...)



• 14 February 2022:
  11^th Workshop on Fats and Oils as Renewable Feedstocks for the Chemical Industry postponed:
  Due to the current situation in February 2022 caused by Covid-19, we decided to postpone the workshop to May 30 – June 1, 2022. [more...]



• 30 September 2021:
  Review on Fats and Oils
  The newest review on fats and oils as renewable feedstock for the chemical Industry has been published in Angewandte Chemie. Ursula Biermann, Uwe T. Bornscheuer, Ivo Feussner, Michael A. R. Meier, andJürgen O. Metzger, Fatty Acids and their Derivatives as Renewable Platform Molecules for the Chemical Industry, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 20144–20165. [PDF]



• 29 September 2021:
  11^th Workshop on Fats and Oils as Renewable Feedstocks for the Chemical Industry, 07 – 09 March 2022 in Dortmund, Germany:
  The organizers are very confident that the 11^th Workshop can take place as a real face to face conference. It may happen that the pandemic development makes a real meeting in March 2022 difficult or even impossible. In this case, the workshop will be performed as an online conference. A decision on this will be made not later than 10 January 2022.
  The registration is opened.



• 04 November 2020:
  In consideration of the fact that COVID-19 continues to have Europe and most parts of the world under its control we decided to defer the 11th Workshop on Fats and Oils as a Renewable Feedstock for the Chemical Industry by one year. The 11th Workshop will take place in Dortmund, Germany from March 07 until 09 2022. The registration is opened.



• 10 January 2020:
  The Special Issue: Fats and Oils as Renewable Feedstock for the Chemical Industry of Eur. J. Lipid Sci. Techn. was published in January 2020 containing 10 research articles based on contributions to the 10th Workshop on Fats and Oils as Renewable Feedstock for the Chemical Industry and an editorial by Ursula Biermann and Jürgen O. Metzger. The editorial can be downloaded here.