Stamicarbon is among the ten companies shortlisted for the Dutch Innovation Award 2021, the prize awarded to the most innovative company in the Netherlands each year. The winner of the award will be announced on October 21st at the National Innovation Dinner, where Dutch innovators will come together to celebrate and network.

“We are very proud to receive this nomination and be recognized among the ten most innovative companies in the Netherlands,” said Pejman Djavdan, CEO of Stamicarbon. “With its vision to pioneer with a higher purpose, Stamicarbon considers sustainability key to the future of the fertilizer industry. For decades we have been leading the innovation in the industry and, as part of our Vision 2030, we focus our innovation efforts on future-proof fertilizer technologies, namely on the production of fertilizers based on renewable energy, technologies for the production of more efficient and effective specialty fertilizers, and digital transformation of fertilizer plants.”

The ten nominees in alphabetical order are:

• ASML
• Blender
• Ecoplant
• Elestor
• Mosa Meat
• Qlayers
• RobotWise
• Stamicarbon
• The Protein Brewery
• Visma Connect

The pre-selection of nominees is based on the 2021 edition of the Dutch Innovation Monitor (Nederlandse Innovatie Monitor), where more than 600 representatives from organizations in the Netherlands were surveyed on the topics of innovation and sustainability. The Dutch Innovation Monitor is one of the largest surveys on innovation in the Netherlands, an initiative by the University of Amsterdam’s Amsterdam Center for Business Innovation and Amsterdam Business School. 

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