Today’s itinerary consisted of a visit to the University of Augsburg, a guest lecture, a scavenger hunt, and dinner at an Italian restaurant. Upon starting our day, we were able to meet the students that would be in our groups for the company projects. The two girls that Ashlyn, Conner and I met for our…
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Exploring The Hague: Rembrant, Beaches, and Noodles!
Our first day in The Hague gave us the full sights and sounds of the city. Taking a break from professional touring for the day because of the weekend, we took advantage of the sun and walked around both the historical and modern parts of the city. After taking the train to a new part…
A Grad Time in The Netherlands
On the fifth day of this excursion, the group visited a couple of museums, enjoyed some delicious Indonesian food, and visited a record shop with a unique set of instruments. The group concluded the day with a dinner involving University of Pittsburgh alumni. The meet-up had the Plus3 group socializing with graduates who work in…
A Peaceful Day in The Hague: Day 7
Today, we took a day trip to The Hague, which is the diplomatic center of Holland. While Amsterdam is the capital of The Netherlands, The Hague is home to the Dutch parliament as well as the Peace Palace, which is what we visited. The Hague is kind of a mix of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, as…
Quick Trip to the Hague: Day 7
For our first day staying in Rotterdam, we actually decided to spend the day in another nearby city, taking a quick train ride to the Hague. The city is the seat of government for the Dutch and is famous for hosting the International Court of Justice, but we learned the city had much more to…
05/16 – Nouryon Visit & Leaving Amsterdam
Today, we left Amsterdam. At around 9:00 AM, we checked out of our hotel in Amsterdam and boarded a bus for Deventer, about an hour and a half East. There, we toured Nouryon, a specialty chemical company that has roots dating to the early 19th century, when an earlier form of the company had a…
Preserving the Green-Noury(on) (5/16)
Day 6 began with an early exit from our Amsterdam hotel. We loaded our suitcases on to the bus and headed to the Nouryon Research and Development center in Deventer. Nouryon is a chemical company known for producing many polymers, including organic peroxides, curing agents, reactor additives, and metal alkyls. Once we arrived on site,…
Nouryon
Today, we had the pleasure of touring Nouryon, learning what their company does, and how sustainability plays in their mission as a company. Our day began with a talk about the company’s history and mission. Following this, a presentation was given by a toxicologist at Nouryon, discussing regulations, effects of products on consumers, and environmental…
R&D
On day 6, we traveled from Amsterdam to Deventer to Rotterdam. In Deventer, we had a company visit with Nouryon, a global leader in chemicals. Our visit started with a presentation on some background of the company’s history with sustainability. We learned that Nouryon received an ‘A’ climate score and an EcoVadis gold rating, which…
Anne Frank House, Van Gogh, & Alumni
5/15/25. Today, we attended a significant cultural and historical monument in Amsterdam – the Anne Frank House. Seeing this site was a powerful moment as it humanized the effects of the holocaust, by showing where people hid during this atrocity. A specific part of the site that was striking to me was the lines marking…
A New City of Bridges
After packing up all our bags this morning, we hopped on a bus to visit Nouryon, a chemical manufacturing company. We heard from a variety of Nouryon employees about their roles in the company and their sustainability goals. We learned about safety testing, biodegradability, and polymer recycling. I was interested in the biodegradability and eco-toxicity…
Noury-on the way to Rotterdam: Day 6
Today was bittersweet, as we had to say goodbye to the wonderful city of Amsterdam while getting on the road towards Rotterdam. However, we had the chance to explore a company Nouryon that put a serious emphasis on sustainability and presented this well to us, helping to show how a major company places an emphasis…
Labs and Lab Coats
It was sad to leave Amsterdam, but it was also exciting that today we were going to be visiting Nouryon. Nouryon is a company that produces and distributes specialty chemicals for use in the agriculture, electronics, and food industries. The company provides a range of products including polymer additives, organic peroxides, and metal alkyls. Nouryon…
Nouryon and Rotterdam
Today was our sixth day in Netherlands, and our last day in Amsterdam. I woke up at around 8 AM, and I started my morning off with a cappuccino, some mini pancakes, peach yogurt, a boiled egg, and some sliced meats. I then finished some last-minute packing, and I checked out of my hotel. After…
Roadtrip to Rotterdam!
Day 6 brought us, full business casual clad, to the gates of Nouryon, a chemical production site whose Polymer Production site was centered in their Deventer location where we visited. After gearing up in lab coats, tied up hair and safety goggles, we were guided around the facility’s many environmental compliance, testing and experimental laboratories….
Innovating for a Sustainable Future: Lessons from Nouryon
During my visit to Nouryon, I learned about the innovative ways the company is addressing sustainability in the plastics and polymer industries. One of the most striking facts shared during the presentation was that only about 14.6% of global plastic waste is recycled. The majority either ends up in landfills or gets burned for energy,…
Polymer Recycling and Traveling to Rotterdam: Day 6
Today, we made our last stop before arriving in Rotterdam. We were lucky enough to be able to visit the headquarters of Nouryon, a global chemical company. We began learning about the history of the company, as well as a broad scope of what it is that they do. The company started in 1893 when…
Our last full day in Amsterdam: Day 5
Today is our final day in Amsterdam before we head off to Rotterdam tomorrow afternoon, and we definitely got to see an important piece of history to make it memorable. The main event was visiting the Anne Frank house, which is especially meaningful to me because I am Jewish so have grown up learning about…
Nouryon is a Chemicool Company!
As day 6 started, we packed up and said goodbye to Amsterdam as we drove off to Deventer, NL to tour Nouryon! We began by learning a little bit about the history of the company, then dove into some more technical details. Nouryon is a chemical manufacturing company and is the world’s leading supplier of…
Goodbye Amsterdam, Chemicals, Hello Rotterdam! (Day 6)
Today marked the last time on the trip that I would wake up in the great city of Amsterdam. The five days that I spent in Amsterdam are five days to remember for the rest of my life. I learned so much about a foreign culture, made memories that will last a lifetime, and made…