Bio-based Industries (BBI) Joint Undertaking

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Bio-based Industries (BBI) Joint Undertaking

6 July 20221 July 2022

The chemicals companies decarbonising with bio-feedstocks

Organic feedstocks are essential in decarbonising the chemicals sector. We identify key trends and opportunities for a biobased transition in this key industry

24 June 202220 June 2022

Clariant produziert das erste kommerzielle sunliquid®-Zellulose-Ethanol in der neuen Anlage in Podari, Rumänien

Die Abnahme der gesamten Produktionsmenge wurde mit dem globalen Energieunternehmen Shell für mehrere Jahre vereinbart

16 May 202212 May 2022

WASTE2FUNC’s logistics platform will collect and convert food waste into bioplastics

BBI-JU invests in WASTE2FUNC

29 April 202226 April 2022

Avantium celebrates the First Piling Ceremony for its FDCA Flagship Plant

Construction is planned to be completed by the end of 2023, enabling the commercial launch of PEF from 2024 onwards

20 April 202213 April 2022

Giant grass miscanthus: Bioethanol source with negative CO2 balance

European collaborative project led by the University of Hohenheim shows: Combining bioethanol production with carbon storage can effectively reduce CO2

11 April 202215 June 2022

PEF as a barrier layer: does it influence the bottle blowing process?

Produced by Avantium Renewable Polymers, PEF is a polyester made from renewable resources and is very suitable as a barrier layer in PET-based multilayer bottles

11 March 20228 March 2022

LVMH Beauty joins Avantium’s PEFerence consortium to develop sustainable packaging for Perfumes and Cosmetics

LVMH Beauty will be the first luxury cosmetic company to join the PEFerence consortium, further enabling the commercial introduction of PEF to the Cosmetics market

18 February 202216 February 2022

10 years after the first EU bioeconomy strategy. An interview with Chris Patermann, the father of the European bioeconomy

In this exclusive interview with Il Bioeconomista, Chris Patermann talks about the new challenges we are facing to make the new economy based on biological resources happen

7 February 202228 January 2022

CHAMPION consortium reaches milestone in safe and circular material development

Researchers of the CHAMPION project have successfully prepared a first set of innovative bio-based materials with promising properties for coatings, adhesives and home care ingredients

6 January 20222 January 2022

FAO and JRC launch new guidance note on monitoring bioeconomy sustainability

New bioeconomy Guidance note describes in easy-to-follow steps how countries and macro-regions, such as the European Union (EU), can monitor sustainability along with their bioeconomy strategies and policies

7 December 20211 December 2021

Welcome to the Circular Bio-based Europe community

CBE JU is the new BBI JU, nothing changes for you!

European SSuchy Project Update after 4 years of work

3 years after the project launch, the 17 European partners gathered online to review their work & plan for the last year of the project

26 November 202123 November 2021

Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking to be launched at the end of November

Partnership between the European Union and the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) will build on the success of BBI JU to advance competitive circular bio-based industries in Europe

11 November 202124 November 2021

New insights reveal confusion about sustainable packaging

New vox pop study as part of the Usable Packaging project suggest that the concept of plant-based plastics is even less familiar to the British general public

5 November 20215 November 2021

European Parliament approves Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking

The EU Council is now anticipated to ratify the rule in the second half of November, paving the way for the CBE JU to be launched and its Programme Office to be established by the end of 2021

25 October 202120 October 2021

Fighting food waste: BBI JU-funded projects support the EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy

The policy emphasises the need to accelerate the transition to a more sustainable food system that preserves biodiversity and has a neutral or positive environmental impact

19 October 202114 October 2021

nenu2PHAr project update after 1 year of work

One year after the launch of the project, the 16 European partners gathered online to review their work and plan the next activities of the project

6 October 202130 September 2021

New country infographics illustrate how BBI JU projects shape the European bioeconomy

The illustrations include key data on BBI JU beneficiaries, projects, and applications for BBI JU funding, thus showing the relevance of the initiative for each country’s bioeconomy

24 September 202122 September 2021

BIObec: leveraging education to unlock the EU bioeconomy’s full potential

Maximising the opportunities offered by the bioeconomy by interlinking universities, innovation labs, and R&D centres with industrial actors and regions

15 September 202110 September 2021

New publication highlights the BBI JU achievements over seven years

BBI JU funding has mobilised the relevant actors of the sector, from producers and research organisations to small businesses and large companies

6 September 20219 September 2021

The REDWine project and climate change

Reduction of greenhouse gases in wine production

Das REDWine-Projekt und der Klimawandel

Reduktion von Treibhausgasen bei der Weinherstellung

27 July 202123 July 2021

Green transition in Europe

BBI JU, a booster of Europe’s bioeconomy supporting the European Green Deal

21 July 202116 July 2021

BBI JU in the front line for green recovery

Despite the unprecedented challenges triggered by the pandemic in 2020, BBI JU maintained a high level of service to its community and kept on delivering outstanding results

13 July 20218 July 2021

Microphyt announces launch of SCALE, the world’s first fully-integrated microalgae biorefinery

The 4-year 15 million Euro EU-project will address the ever-growing demand for safe and effective nutrition and wellness ingredients produced in a natural and highly sustainable way

9 July 20217 July 2021

Agrimax formally opens two new processing facilities to create value from crop and food processing waste

Both pilot plants (biorefineries) – one in Spain and one in Italy – aim to develop and demonstrate the production of multiple, high-value bio-based products from food and farming waste

8 July 20215 July 2021

BIOSWITCH research analyses Irish and Dutch consumer perspectives of bio-based products

The results show that Irish consumers have a slightly more positive perception of bio-based products than their Dutch counterpart, with 93% of the respondents from Ireland and 81% of the ones from the Netherlands indicating that they prefer to buy bio-based products instead of fossil-based ones

18 June 202116 June 2021

OLEAF4VALUE: An Innovative Upcycling Project

Three-year project to develop a complete valorisation system for the olive leaf

31 May 202116 June 2021

BBI JU to invest €104.5 million into circular bio-based projects

This is the seventh and last BBI JU call which will bring the total investment of the initiative to €821.6 million and the BBI JU’s portfolio to 142 projects

22 April 202118 June 2021

An exclusive interview with Philippe Mengal, executive director BBI JU

Philippe Mengal, executive director of the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking talks to Il Bioeconomista

22 March 202117 March 2021

Towards Fossil-free Bio-based Wood Binders – Launch of Pilot-scale Industry Testing

The BBI-JU funded project SUSBIND project started the pilot scale evaluation of a new bio-based binder system to be used by mass furniture industry

Usable Packaging project: Launching a revolution in bioplastics

Whilst plant-based applications (like cotton, linen or starches) are as old as humanity, using plants to produce new types of plastics is very recent

19 March 202116 March 2021

Zelcor – Zero Waste Ligno-Cellulosic Biorefineries by Integrated Lignin Valorisation

EU project Zelcor ended after four and a half years

16 March 202111 March 2021

BBI JU-funded Ssuchy project yields results

Manufacturers have invariably turned to natural and wood fibres and bio-based polymers

3 March 202126 February 2021

Portugal in prime position to lead Europe’s bioeconomy transformation

New in-depth exploration shows Portugal’s potential to become Europe’s Green Deal champion

TECNARO EU Projekt – SWEETWOODS Bioraffinerie produziert erste Tonnen hochreines Lignin

Das EU Projekt SWEETWOODS hat seine ersten Meilensteine erreicht. Es stehen Proben von hochreinem Lignin und Holzzucker im Tonnenmaßstab zur Verfügung

1 March 202125 February 2021

Commission gives the green light to the successor of BBI JU

European Commission agrees on successor public-private partnership with BIC

24 February 20219 September 2021

Join our expert survey and evaluate the newly developed AFTERLIFE process for the extraction of value-added products from waste water!

As part of the EU funded project AFTERLIFE, we are conducting a survey on the socio-economic impact of our newly developed biotechnological process to improve the valorisation of wastewater and its resulting products.

23 February 202118 February 2021

SWEETWOODS delivers first tons of high purity lignin and wood sugars

One of the goals of the SWEETWOODS project is to establish markets for lignin and sugar-based platform chemicals

5 February 20212 February 2021

Avantium provides update on the FDCA flagship plant final investment decision process

Avantium's update on its final investment decision (FID) process concerning the construction of its FDCA flagship plant

13 January 20218 January 2021

Creating innovative value chains from non-food biomass feedstock

AFTER-BIOCHEM project aims at creating innovative and more sustainable value chains from renewable raw materials to multiple high added-value products at industrial scale

16 December 202011 December 2020

Zelcor Summer School 2021 – 2nd edition – Postponed to 8-11 February online

Zero waste biorefineries: value chain approach, methods, and processes for lignin upgrading

9 December 20205 December 2020

Development of new bio-based coating materials – ECOAT

Aim is, to develop new bio-based coating materials from highly available, low valorized biomass such as tomatoes, legumes, and sunflowers

Entwicklung von neuen biobasierten Barrierebeschichtungen – ECOAT

Anfallende biologische Reststoffe werden zu Beschichtungen funktionalisiert und auf verschiedene zellulose- und polymerbasierte Substrate beschichtet

26 October 202021 October 2020

Flagship EU project aiming to replace toxic solvents with renewable alternatives launches today

The new ReSolute project is addressing the need for plant-based, higher-performing and safer chemicals in Europe

23 October 202020 October 2020

NENU2PHAR Project Kick-Off

New project will develop an original route of production PHA bioplastics from microalgae biomass and selection of bacteria strains

14 September 20209 September 2020

Bio-based industries equipped to help Europe meet its waste objectives

Research by ZWE and BIC maps bio-waste collection and potential

3 August 20209 September 2021

Bio-waste generation in the EU: Current capture levels and future potential

Examples of best practices for sustainably valorising bio-waste to provide new bio-based compounds for the chemicals, food-packaging and agricultural sectors

31 July 202030 July 2020

Bio-based industries are key to the EU’s green recovery, says BIC’s position paper

Creating bio-based value chains requires new connections and innovations across multiple and diverse sectors

28 July 202024 July 2020

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