The project of BioBTX, KNN Advies, Syncom and University of Groningen aims to set up an advanced chemical catalytic pyrolysis process, called Integrated Cascading Catalytic Pyrolysis (ICCP), and to demonstrate this concept on a pilot plant scale (TRL 6/7) for 1-2 biomass streams. The knowledge will be input for the next step in the development process, to commercial production. The ICCP-BioBTX technology is suitable for processing various biomass and organic waste streams as a feedstock for producing the drop-in chemicals benzene, toluene and xylenes. In a catalytic pyrolysis process, biomass is first converted into a mixture of aromatics, including BTX (benzene, toluene and xylenes). After purification, the paraxylene is oxidised to the corresponding terephthalic acid. After esterification with methanol, the obtained dimethyl terephthalate (DMT) can be converted into different polyesters by reaction with all kinds of diols (including ethylene glycol). The results of this project allow the technology to be scaled up to larger volumes and industrial production and to broaden the technology to a large biobased product package for the chemical industry. New operational and engineering data for chemical catalytic cracking of biomass to BTX will be generated on a representative pilot plant scale relevant for the scaling up of this technology towards a sustainable industrial production system for large bio-aromat production. The conversion process on prototype pilot plant scale will be optimised for various plant residues during the execution of this project. Currently, aromatics are obtained from petroleum. Because this source is finite and because the use of oil leads to an increase in CO2 emissions (and therefore climate change), it is important to realise the synthesis of bio-aromats from biomass. The development of the new low carbon technology of BioBTX has made a major contribution to energy and emission targets as set out in Objective D (and C) of the ERDF Northern Netherlands OP. Compared to BTX’s usual petrochemical production process, there is an energy saving of 66 % (37.6 MJ/kg PTA) by applying the chemical catalytic pyrolysis technology. The project fits well with the societal challenges identified in the RIS3 and makes it a crossover between agriculture and green chemistry, which contributes to the greening of the Northern chemistry parks in Emmen and Delfzijl. Cutting-edge low-carbon technology significantly increases efficiency, sales and cost efficiency and delivers drop-in chemicals based on biomass at competitive market prices. The new BioBTX process makes a significant contribution to making the global chemical and plastic industries more sustainable, resulting in the marketing of green chemicals and plastics with a significant reduction in CO2 footprint. Bio-aromats are an essential part of commonly used materials and are therefore of interest to several multinationals. The production of sustainable raw materials for the plastics market is the main market where the technology can be applied. The developed technology and subsequent processes generate green intermediates for sustainable polymer production. The bio-aromats produced will find their way to various greening industries. Finally, this project will contribute to achieving a large growth in employment and turnover after the end of this project at BioBTX in Groningen. The results of the project lead to a major improvement in the Northern Netherlands employment and the Northern Netherlands Gross Regional Product (BRP). It leads to the valorisation of various biomass streams into sustainable plastics, which contributes to the greening of the chemistry clusters in Delfzijl and especially Emmen and links agriculture to chemistry.