All Projects

Marisurf
  • 1G sugar, Biomedical applications, Biopolymers, Biosurfactants, Cosmetic ingredients, Detergents, Emulsifiers, Fermentation, Finished projects, Food, Food grade, Food ingredients, H2020-RIA, Nano technology, Oil, Oils, Oils and derivatives, Partner, Personal and home care, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery & purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Specialty chemicals, Vegetable oils

The MARISURF project will use marine bacterial strains to produce new SAs. To ensure the newly discovered SAs satisfy their requirements and demands, MARISURF will place the industrial end-users in a leading role in guiding the search for new SAs.

Read More
Nano3Bio
  • 1G sugar, Agricultural applications, Agriculture, Animal feed, Biomedical applications, Biopolymers, Chitin, Chito-oligosaccharides, Chitosans, Cosmetic ingredients, FP7, Fermentation, Finished projects, Food related sidestreams, Glycerol, Industrial sidestreams, Partner, Personal and home care, Personal care, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery & purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6)

The Nano3Bio project aims to develop biotechnological production systems for nanoformulated chitosans. Chitosans are among the most versatile and most promising biopolymers and have excellent physico-chemical and material properties as well as a wide range of biological functionalities.

Read More
Prolific
  • Bakery products, Biochemical modification, Biomass pretreatment, Coffee ground, Coffee waste, Cosmetic ingredients, Extraction, Fibres, Finished projects, Food, Food ingredients, Food related sidestreams, Formulation, Green peas, H2020 BBI-RIA, Mushrooms, Partner, Peptides, Personal and home care, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Proteins, Scale-up (TRL 4-6)

The Prolific project will apply a range of processing technologies to agro-industrial residues of legumes, fungi and coffee in order to recover significant amounts of proteins/peptides, fibres and other value-added compounds.

Read More
Pulp2Value
  • Agricultural sidestreams, Arabinose, Biomass pretreatment, Biorefinery, Crystallization, Demonstration (TRL 5-7), Finished projects, Food, Food grade, Galacturonic acid, H2020 BBI-IA-DEMO, Halal and kosher, Market sample production, Microcellulose fibers, Partner, Personal and home care, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Product recovery & purification, Sugar beet pulp, Ton scale

Sugar beet pulp (SBP) accounts for approx. 13 million tonnes in Europe and is a major residual stream from the sugar beet industry, which is currently valorised as low value feed and/or green gas. In order to increase the value of its side streams, PULP2VALUE developed multiple extraction techniques to isolate more valuable products from this large fraction of sugar beet pulp.

Read More
REHAP
  • 2G glucose, 2G sugar, 2G sugar - agriculture, 2G sugar - forestry, Adhesives, Agricultural sidestreams, Agricultural waste, Bark, Bio-resins, BioPUR insulation, Biocatalysis, Bioester polyols, Biomass pretreatment, Biorefinery, Bulk chemicals, Butanediol, Cement additives, Construction materials, Diols, Fermentation, Finished projects, Flame retardants, Forestry sidestreams, Forestry waste, H2020-IA, H2020-SPIRE-IA, Insulation foams, Lignin extraction, NIPUs, Partner, Phenolic resins, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Polyurethanes, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery & purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Specialty chemicals, Super plasticizers, TPU adhesives, Wheat straw, Wooden boards

Rehap aims to strengthen the European bio-economy industry by creating novel materials from agricultural and forestry waste, and considering how they can be used commercially in the green building sector.

Read More
ReSolve
  • 1G sugar, Beet pulp pectin, Biosolvents, Bulk chemicals, Cellulose, Finished projects, Food related sidestreams, Forestry sidestreams, Glucose, Green chemistry, Green solvents, H2020 BBI-RIA, Heterogeneous catalysis, Partner, Process development (TRL 4-5), Reactive distillation, Scale-up, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Solvents, TMO

ReSolve sets out to replace two hazardous solvents – toluene and NMP (N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone) – with safer alternatives derived from non-food carbohydrates.

Read More
SHEALTHY
  • Agriculture, Antimicrobial compounds, Extraction, Finished projects, Food and drink packaging, Food packaging, Food related sidestreams, Food waste, Fruit waste, Green chemistry, H2020-RIA, Membrane filtration, Packaging, Partner, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Product recovery and purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Ultrasound assisted extraction, Vegetable waste

SHEALTHY aims to assess and develop an optimal combination of non-thermal sanitization, preservation and stabilization methods to improve the safety (inactivation of pathogens and spoilage microorganisms), while preserving the nutritional quality (up to 30%) and prolonging the shelf-life (up to 50%) of minimally processed F&V products.

Read More
SPICY
  • (Inter)Cluster, 1G sugar, Biocatalysis, Bioplastics, Biopolymers, Bulk chemicals, Butanediol, Carbohydrates, Catalisti-SBO, Catalisti-cSBO, Chemical building blocks, Diols, Fermentation, Finished projects, ISPR, Lactic acid, Low TRL, Muconic acid, Organic acids, Partner, Passed projects, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery and purification, Regional-flanders, Specialty chemicals

SPICY aims at creating a new and profitable value chain in the Flemish bio-economy by connecting sugar feedstock suppliers with fermentation-based and chemical biorefinery companies to end-users active in chemical and polymer production.

Read More
SYLFEED
  • 2G sugar, 2G sugar - forestry, Antifouling, Biomass pretreatment, Demonstration (TRL 5-7), Enzymatic conversion, Feed, Feed grade, Fermentation, Fish feed, Flavour and fragrances, Food, Forestry sidestreams, H2020 BBI-IA-DEMO, Market sample production, Partner, Past projects, Proteins, Salmon, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Single cell protein, Wood, Woody sugars

The grand challenge of the SYLFEED demonstration project is to scale-up and validate the bio-refinery process that converts lignocellulose into SCP suitable to formulate fish feed.

Read More