Custom processingMonument Chemical has a long history providing contract chemical manufacturing in distillation and reaction technologies, serving customers in a wide range of fine and specialty chemical areas. Markets served include coatings, agricultural chemicals, flavors and fragrances, petrochemicals, electronics, household and personal care products, polymer intermediates, oleochemicals and motor fuels.Our custom processing customers can often defer or avoid capital expenditure and increase speed of response to market changes. With flexible multi-purpose units, a strong technical team and excellent supply chain connections we are well equipped to respond quickly to new inquiries.

PhD research topic: biomass on contaminated land for bio-energy production.Diffusely metal contaminated soils are a global concern nowadays, for which no easy solution exists. Conventional soil sanitation often makes use of invasive and highly energy demanding techniques, which are only suited to treat contamination hotspots. The Campine region (BE-NL) is a textbook example of a diffusely contaminated region due to historical smelter activities. A test field has been acquired in this region to investigate a risk based management strategy called phytoattenuation. Phytoattenuation is a technique that focusses on the safe valorisation of the contaminated field. An income is generated for the farmer through the cultivation of energy crops, whilst simultaneously remediating the soil in the long term through metal extraction by the plants. This research comprises the whole value chain from the cultivation of the crop (lab and field experiments) up to the safe use of the endproduct (for instance the contaminated digestate after anaerobic digestion).