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12 November 20257 November 2025

Bio-based industries are Europe’s assets says EIB report

A new study provides a series of actionable recommendations to address several challenges, from creating a European bioeconomy booster programme to expanding venture debt options under InvestEU guarantee

12 June 20255 June 2025

INERATEC opens ERA ONE: Europe’s largest e-Fuel production plant goes into operation in Frankfurt

“ERA ONE shows that climate-neutral e-Fuels are ready for the market”

INERATEC eröffnet ERA ONE: Europas größte Produktionsanlage für e-Fuels geht in Frankfurt in Betrieb

„ERA ONE zeigt, dass klimaneutrale e-Fuels marktreif sind“

22 May 202520 May 2025

INERATEC Produces First Green Hydrogen-Based E-Fuel at Pioneering Commercial Plant in Frankfurt, Germany

This is an important milestone in scaling the power-to-liquid (PtL) technology to a market-ready level

19 May 20254 June 2025

INERATEC produziert erstes e-Fuel an Pionieranlage in Frankfurt

Von der Vision zur Realität: ein skalierbares Modell für PtX Technologie

17 March 202512 March 2025

INERATEC secures €70 million financing commitment for Europe’s largest e-Fuel-production plant in Frankfurt

The combined backing will finance the construction of Europe`s largest sustainable production plant in Frankfurt and research and development of future

INERATEC sichert sich Finanzierungszusage über 70 Millionen Euro für Europas größte e-Fuel-Anlage in Frankfurt

Mit dem Finanzierungspaket will das Unternehmen in Frankfurt Europas größte Produktionsanlage bauen und seine Forschung und Entwicklung vorantreiben

13 March 202511 March 2025

Portugal: EIB finances Galp’s Renewable Hydrogen and Biofuels projects in Sines with €430 million

Loan for the construction of two key projects aimed at transforming Galp’s Sines Refinery, making a crucial contribution for the decarbonization of heavy-duty road transport and aviation

10 March 20253 March 2025

A Clean Industrial Deal for competitiveness and decarbonisation in the EU

The Clean Industrial Deal will accelerate decarbonisation, while securing the future of manufacturing in Europe

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

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