ECOFUNC pioneers eco-friendly, functional and circular building materials for sustainable construction and beyond
Funded by the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) under the European Union’s Horizon Europe Framework ECOFUNC will drive market adoption and mainstream new bio-based materials
Biotech company Mevaldi successfully closes funding round with HTGF and ICIG Ventures to scale up breakthrough technology for green chemistry
Mevaldi will also focus on the commercialization of its flagship product Pentonext®: an innovative building block for sustainable polyesters and polyurethanes in textiles and elastomers, among other things
Biotech-Unternehmen Mevaldi sichert sich Finanzierung vom HTGF und ICIG Ventures, um wegweisende Technologie für grüne Chemie zu skalieren
Das Unternehmen will zudem die Kommerzialisierung seines Vorzeigeprodukts Pentonext® vorantreiben, das als innovativer Baustein für nachhaltige Polyester und Polyurethane in Textilien und Elastomeren dient
CBE JU welcomes the European Chemicals Industry Action Plan: Bio-based solutions powering a sustainable industrial transformation
The plan recognises the potential of bio-based chemicals to contribute to the decarbonisation of the EU chemicals sector and to the development of new industrial value chains based on sustainably sourced European biomass
Alder Bioinsights News Review: Feedstocks Issue 160, July 2025
European efforts to achieve net-zero targets heavily rely on biomass, but consistent and robust policy support is crucial, with organizations like the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) advocating for fair regulations that treat biomass for materials equally with bioenergy, particularly by adapting forest biomass rules and avoiding caps on primary agricultural biomass
EU Support for Bio-based Pest Control in Food Production
Approximately 40% of the world’s food crops are lost each year due to pests and diseases. The Borregaard-initiated project CROPSAFE has received €4.9 million in funding from the EU’s Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) to develop bio-based solutions for pest control in potatoes, tomatoes and bananas
Afyren und Südzucker setzen strategische Bioökonomie-Partnerschaft fort
Afyren und Südzucker haben vereinbart, ihre langjährige Partnerschaft fortzusetzen, um eine nachhaltige, biobasierte und zirkuläre Produktion von Chemikalien entsprechend den Zielen der EU für den ökologischen Wandel voranzutreiben
Amazon is trialling bio-based delivery bags in Spain whilst developing new technologies to recycle bio-based materials
New food-safe bio-based bags for Amazon Fresh are made from vegetable materials produced in Europe, including corn starch and vegetable oils, and protect products against rain and spillages
PROSPER project on bio-based plastics coordinated by University of Ghent secures 7.5M€ in CBE funding update
The 4-year PROSPER project, standing for "Promoting and Supporting Practices for Eco Recycling," targets the effective sorting and recycling of bio-based plastics to foster a circular economy
CBE JU boosting the EU’s biotech and biomanufacturing sectors
CBE JU funding supports projects developing and producing innovative, sustainable and circular bio-based solutions across many sectors spanning from bio-based chemicals to food and feed ingredients, from construction materials to packaging
Bio-based innovations for industrial applications: stakeholder event on 24 April 2024 in Brussels presents latest breakthroughs and key findings from research on circular bio-based solutions
Organised by two EU-funded research projects, CHAMPION and PERFECOAT, this stakeholder event is dedicated to the latest developments in bio-based solutions for a variety of materials such as coatings, paints, adhesives and detergents
Interview with Samira Choupin about LVHM’s appplication of Avantium’s bio-based Polyethylene Furanoate (PEF)
The Packaging Materials Innovation Manager at LVMH Beauty answers questions about the company's sustainability goals, the motivation to join the PEFerence project and LVMH’s planned applications of PEF to replace fossil feedstock
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