All Projects

ECHO
  • Biodegradable, Biopolymers, Bulk chemicals, CCU, CO2, Chemical building blocks, EU RRF project, Fermentation, Fwo, Gas fermentation, Gasses, H2, Low TRL, Ongoing projects, Partner, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Regional-flanders, WP leader, Waste gasses

Engineering Cupriavidus necator for the Hydrogen-efficient production of a pyrOne building block from industrial gas streams.

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Glaukos
  • Biodegradable, Coating, Coordinator, Fermentation, Glycerol, H2020 BBI-RIA, Ongoing projects, Polymers, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery and purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Textile fibres, WP leader

Glaukos will develop innovative textile fibres and textile coatings that reconcile an excellent environmental performance with adequate technical characteristics.

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REPurpose
  • 2G sugar, 2G sugar - industrial, Alcohols, Biocatalysis, Biodegradable, Biomass pretreatment, Bioplastics, Bulk chemicals, Chemical building blocks, Construction materials, Consumer goods, Coordinator, Enzymes, Fermentation, Forestry sidestreams, Green chemistry, HEurope-Other, HEurope-RIA, Industrial sidestreams, Lignin biomass, Ongoing projects, Paper & cardboard, Plastic waste, Polymers, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery and purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), WP leader

Recyclable Elastomeric Plastics safely and sUstainably designed and produced via enzymatic Recycling of Post-cOnsumer waSte strEams

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UPLIFT
  • Biodegradable, Bioplastics, Biopolymers, Eco-design, Enzyme development, Fermentation, Food and drink packaging, H2020-RIA, Industrial sidestreams, Ongoing projects, Partner, Plastic upcycling, Plastic waste, Polymers, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Scale-up (TRL 4-6)

The concept of UPLIFT is to introduce biological depolymerization technology as an addition and integration to established recycling practices, by converting persistent plastic waste into more easily recyclable and/or degradable polymers.

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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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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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