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USABLE PACKAGING
  • Biodegradable, Biomaterials, Bioplastics, Biopolymers, Finished projects, H2020 BBI-RIA, Industrial sidestreams, Mixed culture, PHA, PHB, Packaging, Partner, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Process waters, Product recovery and purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6)

USABLE PACKAGING project will establish a new value chain for bioplastics. This will be based on low-cost and widely-available feedstock, such as by-products and sidestreams from the food processing industry.

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BioCluster
  • AO-NIB, Biomaterials, Bioplastics, Biosurfactants, Bulk chemicals, Finished projects, Lubricants, Partner, Personal and home care, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development, Regional-flanders, SME support, Solvents, Specialty chemicals, VLAIO/AO, Value chain building

The main goal of the project is to facilitate the transition of the Flemish industry to a sustainable, biobased economy by building a competitive biocluster of companies that are able to build new value chains.
The project is primarily aimed at companies from the agro-industry, technology developers and the chemical sector.

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NewPack
  • 2G sugar, 2G sugar - agriculture, Agricultural sidestreams, Biodegradable, Biomass pretreatment, Biomaterials, Bioplastics, Biopolymers, Cellulose, Cellulose nanowhiskers, Chitin, Chitin nanowhiskers, Fermentation, Finished projects, Food related sidestreams, Food waste, Forestry sidestreams, H2020 BBI-RIA, Nano additives, PHA, PHB, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Potato peel, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery and purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), WP leader, Wheat straw

A new circular economy value chain will be generated from agro-food wastes that will be exploited for the production of PHB, while designing and validating the process up to pilot scale.

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SMARTBOX
  • Aromatics, Beech wood, Biocatalysis, Biodegradable, Biomaterials, Coordinator, Demonstration (TRL 5-7), Enzyme engineering, Enzyme production, Enzymes, Exploitation, FDCA, Fermentation, Finished projects, Food, Forestry biomass, H2020 BBI-RIA, HMF, Hard wood, Lignin, Lignin biomass, Lignocellulose, Other feedstock, Oxidative catalysis, Polycarbonate building blocks, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Product recovery and purification, Reductive catalytic fractionation, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Soft wood, Specialty chemicals, Vanillin, WP leader

SMARTBOX will develop an advanced computational engineering platform specifically for oxidative enzymes. Relying on this platform, SMARTBOX will develop the one-enzyme conversion of HMF into FDCA and intermediates, and the one-enzyme conversion of lignin monomers into a potential biobased building block for polycarbonates and vanillin.

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Life+ RenewPACK
  • Active barrier applications, Agricultural sidestreams, Barley husk, Biomass pretreatment, Biomaterials, Finished projects, Partner, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery & purification, Scale-up, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Xylan

The RenewPACK project will demonstrate the material Skalax as a barrier in food packaging for the first time ever. RenewPACK is a project partly financed by the European Commission through LIFE+. The project is conducted by Xylophane AB (as coordinating beneficiary) and Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (as associated beneficiary).

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2G BIOPIC
  • 2nd generation, Advanced fuels, Agricultural sidestreams, Biocatalysis, Bioethanol, Biomaterials, Demonstration (TRL 5-7), Ethanol, Fermentation, Finished projects, Fuels, Organosolv, Partner, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Wheat straw

2G BIOPIC proposes a new approach: bioethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass. This technology is based on a highly effective clean deconstruction of lignocellulosic biomass, an advanced organosolv technology, for which several patents have been submitted in the past decade by CIMV.

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