19 March 202414 March 2024 Kaffe Bueno Secures €6.2 Million in Series A Round led by global biorefinery leader Borregaard Borregaard has shown an interest in Kaffe Bueno's unique approach to coffee biorefining and increased market demand for high-performing biobased solutions
6 March 20241 March 2024 Re:NewCell decides to file for bankruptcy The Board of Directors of Re:NewCell AB (publ) (“Re:NewCell”) has today decided to file for bankruptcy of Re:NewCell AB (publ). The bankruptcy application will be filed at the Stockholm District Court
22 January 202415 January 2024 Can Europe’s blue bioeconomy live up to its promises? The blue bioeconomy refers to marine-based sectors that draw specifically on biomass from the sea, either for primary extraction or to create processed materials and new biotechnologies for consumer markets
11 December 20235 December 2023 Bill Gates-backed fund buys into Europe’s largest green hydrogen-to-methanol Project Ørsted’s Green Fuell Plant FlagshipONE gets backing from Bill Gates and the European Union
18 September 202313 September 2023 InvestEU: EIF invests €50 million to support circular plastics Infinity Recycling BV created markets for end-of-life waste streams by investing in advanced recycling technologies that enable circularity in the plastics industry
EU investiert in innovative Recycling-Technologien Mit einem Zielvolumen von 150 Millionen Euro soll der Fonds das industrielle und kommerzielle Wachstum von Unternehmen, die neue Verfahren für innovatives Recycling von Kunststoffen entwickeln, unterstützen
16 March 202313 March 2023 Plastic Pollution: New study finds at least €6.7 billion investment gap to meet Europe’s plastics recycling targets Recent European Investment Bank study shows that the solution to reinforcing the circular, sustainable plastics economy lies in the combination of new policy measures, increased capacity and transformative innovation in the design, collection, sorting and recycling of plastics
Neue Studie: „Investitionslücke für EU-Recycling-Ziele beträgt 6,7 Mrd. Euro“ Report der Europäischen Investitionsbank (EIB) zeigt große noch zu schließende Löcher auf
30 January 202327 January 2023 Project Air to receive EUR 97 million under agreement with Innovation Fund The European Union is supporting carbon-neutrality for the European chemicals industry
Project Air wird vom Innovationsfonds mit 97 Mio. EUR gefördert EU fördert kohlenstoffneutrale Chemieindustrie
21 July 202218 July 2022 Innovation Fund: EU invests €1.8 billion in clean tech projects* The selected projects are located in Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Sweden
7 March 20222 March 2022 EU-initiated impact fund oversubscribed with € 300 million Growth capital for sustainable transformation to a bio-based circular economy
19 January 202214 January 2022 Haldor Topsoe signs €45 million funding deal with European Investment Bank to drive green energy transition The European funding highlights the company’s commitment to developing new technologies to support a wide range of energy intensive industries in their transition towards a low-carbon future
EIB vergibt 45 Millionen Euro an Haldor Topsøe für eine schnellere Energiewende Europäische Unterstützung verdeutlicht, dass das Unternehmen sich der Entwicklung neuer Technologien widmet, um energieintensiven Industrien einen schnelleren Übergang in eine kohlenstoffarme Zukunft zu ermöglichen
17 December 202113 December 2021 ArcelorMittal expands partnership with carbon capture and re-use specialist LanzaTech through US$30 million investment Investment is ArcelorMittal’s fourth via its XCarb™ innovation fund
15 November 202111 November 2021 EIB joins UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and strengthens cooperation with UNEP At the United Nations Climate Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, UNEP’s Executive Director Inger Andersen and EIB Vice-President Ambroise Fayolle signed the memorandum of understanding and announced the EIB as a new partner of the UN Decade
31 August 20216 April 2022 Regulation, consumer demand drive bionaphtha use in fuels, petchems Over the next three to five years, production could grow to anywhere between 500,000 mt/year and multiple millions of metric tons per year, depending on demand
5 January 20214 January 2021 The European Circular Bioeconomy Fund has raised €175 million to foster sustainable innovations First venture fund exclusively dedicated to the bioeconomy in Europe, closes its second round with €93 million in commitments
14 October 202011 October 2020 Joint action for bio-based industries: EIB, European Commission and ECBF Management GmbH launch circular bioeconomy fund with a target size of €250 million The ECBF reached its first closing with €82 million to provide financing to innovative growth-stage companies and projects
8 October 20206 October 2020 Borealis receives European Investment Bank loan for development of circular economy solutions for plastics Loan to boost Borealis research and development efforts in propelling the industry towards plastics circularity
4 June 20209 September 2021 New Lords of Circular Carbon: ArcelorMittal, EU complete financing of Steelanol project New plant is expected to produce up to 80 million liters of recycled-carbon ethanol a year and will create up to 500 construction jobs over the next two years
29 May 20209 September 2021 Belgium: EU supports ArcelorMittal with EUR 75m EIB loan to scale up breakthrough technology to reduce carbon emissions Two ground-breaking projects at ArcelorMittal plant in Ghent, Belgium, to considerably reduce carbon emissions by converting waste and by-products into valuable new products
14 April 20208 April 2020 Agriculture and bioeconomy: EIB approves €700 million of financing under the Investment Plan for Europe amid coronavirus pandemic Financing is guaranteed by the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) and will help make the sector more resilient in light of Covid-19
31 March 202026 March 2020 Agriculture, bioeconomy and rural development Overview 2020 Investing in agricultural supply chains and rural areas is crucial to addressing the growing demand for healthier food and tackling challenges such as soil degradation, food waste, pollution and climate change
10 December 20198 December 2019 A European fund to support the circular bioeconomy The European Commission and the EIB announce the selection of an Investment Advisor for the upcoming European Circular Bioeconomy Fund
22 March 201920 March 2019 AFYREN and the SPI industrial projects fund, operated by Bpifrance, announce the creation of an industrial company, AFYREN NEOXY Companies unveil new organic acids biomolecule JV to help press ahead with bio-based plant
25 April 201823 April 2018 New European Investment Bank loans under Juncker Plan set to mobilise €1 billion in investment for agriculture and bio-economy sectors New financing initiative aims to unlock close to €1 billion of investment in the agriculture and bio-economy sector
Programmdarlehen der EIB für Landwirtschaft und Bioökonomie im Rahmen des Juncker-Plans wird knapp eine Milliarde Euro an privaten Investitionen in ganz Europa auslösen Neue Finanzierungsinitiative soll rund eine Milliarde Euro an Investitionen in der Landwirtschaft und Bioökonomie mobilisieren
12 March 20188 March 2018 Searching for green alchemy €100 million in EU funding for a new investment vehicle that could coax private capital into the bioeconomy
8 December 20176 December 2017 Searching for ‘green alchemy’, EU mounts big investment push in bioeconomy Commission and EIB to launch new multi-million euro effort to drive private investment in bio-based markets
5 July 20173 July 2017 EU increases its commitment to funding the circular economy and bioeconomy sectors New study giving recommendations to address funding gaps and specific needs of project promoters in the bioeconomy sector
12 June 20179 June 2017 Special BIC FLASH: Study on Access-to-Finance -Conditions for Investments in Bio-Based Industries EIB and the EC are expected to announce further steps towards access-to-finance solutions for innovators in the Bioeconomy and Circular Economy sectors
11 April 201730 March 2017 An interview with Marc Palahi, director of EFI: An ambitious bioeconomy strategy is needed In this exclusive interview, Marc Palahi talks about bioeconomy and circular economy, Brexit and Donald Trump, the role of mass media and much more
5 October 201626 September 2016 IFIB 2016: Sustainability is the single largest business opportunity of this generation The use of biological resources by the chemical industry does not simply depend on economic reasons
16 December 201515 December 2015 Jennewein Biotechnologie: Finanzspritze für Wachstumskurs Unternehmen produziert mit Hilfe von Mikroben komplexe Oligosaccharide
EIB lends EUR 10 million to Jennewein Biotechnologie, a German producer of healthy sugars Company to build a commercial scale production plant for complex human milk oligosaccharides
26 October 201521 October 2015 Bioeconomy: An Investment of 1 Euro Today Will Reap 10 Euro in 2025 A proposal to relaunch the European economy: To get started some 400 billion euro are available in the European Fund, 315 in the Juncker Plan, and another 3.7 from public-private partnerships
24 September 201523 September 2015 Commission ready to give more aid to young farmers Over 160,000 young European farmers will start their own businesses thanks to aid provided by the 2014-2020 rural development programmes
19 June 201518 June 2015 EIB supports a new Finnish next-generation bio-product mill The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Metsäliitto Cooperative signed last Friday a EUR 75 million loan agreement for the construction of a new large-scale bio-product mill in Finland (Äänekoski)
17 March 201516 March 2015 Nature is the 300+ billion euro investment plan to kick-start Europe New WWF-report “From crisis to opportunity: Five steps to sustainable European economies
14 October 201413 October 2014 Italy and France awarded for their Most Innovative EU Biotech SMEs 2014 Top five candidates presented their achievements at the 2nd edition of the European Biotech Week