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3 December 202527 November 2025

Ponda Raises $2.4M to Bring BioPuff® to Market and Restore Wetlands Across Europe

Every contribution reflects a growing belief that materials can help heal the planet, and that real change happens when we work together


27 November 202521 November 2025

Renaissance BioScience and Biome Bioplastics Partner to Develop Next-Generation Sustainable, Renewable Bioplastics

C$1.5 million (£814,000) Canada-UK project will harness yeast and bacterial fermentation to produce renewable alternatives to petroleum-based plastics for packaging, personal care, health, and consumer goods


30 June 202524 June 2025

Durham and Newcastle Universities partner with P&G to drive industrial decarbonisation

This work addresses a growing need to decarbonise chemical production, a critical step in developing more sustainable products for everyday us


5 June 202530 May 2025

Addressing the UK’s Polysemous Bioeconomy

New report from BB-REG-NET highlights how differing departmental priorities are creating contradictory policies that stifle innovation and limit economic growth in the sector


7 April 20251 April 2025

Scottish bioeconomy secures £5 million boost for innovation

Research and development initiatives designed to accelerate bio-based manufacturing in Scotland have received a £5 million funding boost through Innovate UK’s Launchpad programme


20 December 202416 December 2024

Milestone reached for ground-breaking trial to convert carbon dioxide into cleaning products 

Scientists trying to convert carbon dioxide into materials used in cleaning products have reached a key milestone by producing ethanol from carbon dioxide captured from papermills in Cumbria and Scotland


12 December 20246 December 2024

Industry network secures £474K to boost bio-based materials regulation

Industry-led network launches with £474,135 Innovate UK funding to accelerate adoption of sustainable chemicals and reduce UK’s reliance on fossil-based materials


29 April 202424 April 2024

Should plastics be recycled?

Plastics are a well-established problem with respect to sustainability


14 February 20244 February 2024

Sonichem is leading a £600K Innovate UK-funded consortium to revolutionise the automotive industry with sustainable, bio-based materials

One emerging solution to this problem is biorefining, which offers a method of processing low-carbon feedstocks into intermediate chemicals that can be made into renewable plastics for vehicles


29 January 202419 January 2024

Xampla & 2M Group of Companies awarded Innovate UK Smart Grant

By 2031, Morro materials from Xampla could replace up to 10,000 tonnes of single-use plastic coatings and one million kilometres of plastic coated paperboard


25 January 202419 January 2024

Jiva’s New Partnership to Develop the World’s First Biodegradable PCB Laminate

Jiva has developed and is commercialising a new laminate called Soluboard® to replace the glass fibre epoxy laminate


25 October 202323 October 2023

FlexSea’s biodegradable plastics attract £3m investment

Using bioplastics derived from seaweed means that packaging and other products breakdown in the environment in a matter of weeks


14 March 202314 March 2023

ViridiCO2™ Secures £3m in Seed Funding to make Chemical Products from CO2

A spin-out from the University of Southampton's radical technology converts waste carbon dioxide into surfactants, plastics/polymer feedstocks and small molecules


10 February 20238 February 2023

Flue2Chem: Putting carbon waste to work for net zero

Industry giants in the UK are joining forces in the first-ever cross-sector collaboration aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Flue2Chem project aims to convert industrial waste gases into chemicals that can be used to manufacture superior and more sustainable consumer products


Flue2Chem: SCI, Unilever and 13 partners launch £5.4m net zero collaboration project

The £5.4m Flue2Chem Project is a two-year programme spearheaded by Unilever and SCI, with 13 other organisations involved


29 November 202225 November 2022

Bangor University: Greening some of our foundational manufacturing sectors

In a £7.3 million Innovate UK research grant, called BONDIFI, the University’s BioComposites Centre is leading on the testing required to reduce the carbon footprint of some of the UK’s major and most carbon-heavy industrial sectors


4 August 20223 August 2022

Fiberight leads consortium project to capture and recycle more plastic packaging for the circular economy

Company has embarked on leading a three-year £10 million large-scale demonstrator project focused on the capture, recovery and recycling of plastic packaging currently lost to landfill and incineration


24 February 20221 March 2022

Britvic joins forces with Xampla in a £1m packaging innovation partnership

World’s first plant protein material for commercial use was developed from the Cambridge-University Start-up and is using pea protein


29 June 202124 June 2021

LanzaTech Part of South Wales Industrial Decarbonisation Project

Proposed facility will yield around 100 million litres per annum of ATJ Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene (ATJ-SPK) to build out the entire supply chain from feedstock to wing


7 January 20219 September 2021

Creating animal food from a greenhouse gas

In the project React-First, scientists are working to produce a high-protein feed called Proton - more or less from thin air


2 December 20209 September 2021

Tapioca-based plastic could help reduce India’s chronic food waste

Degradable bioplastic film is significantly cheaper than current films and recycles waste starch produced by the country’s sprawling cassava plant industry


23 November 202022 November 2020

Project aims to cut microplastics in pharmaceutical and chemical industries

University spin-out Naturbeads is working with ChiralVision to replace plastic microbeads in the chemical industry with biodegradable ones made of cellulose


20 November 202017 November 2020

Funding from Innovate UK’s £191m sustainable innovation fund for award-winning tampliner

Company together with experts from Imperial College London to further develop its award-winning tampliner to reach the highest standards of sustainability


9 November 20209 September 2021

Animal feed made from recycled carbon secures €2.5M European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator funding

Deep Branch has developed a low carbon animal feed with a nutritional profile that is comparable with fishmeal


27 October 202022 October 2020

ReNew ELP to build world’s first commercial-scale plastic recycling plant using Cat-HTR technology

Key benefit of the Cat-HTR technology is its ability to recycle multi-layer, flexible plastic materials or to process food-contaminated, mixed-polymer streams


3 September 201929 August 2019

Edible seaweed-based packaging gets boost from Innovate UK

Innovative capsules, called Oohos, are made from a material called Notpla™ based on seaweed extract and offer a way to deliver drinks under 100ml in a plastic-free form


4 July 20192 July 2019

What Makes for Successful Innovation?

Innovation is essential when developing an economy, but what differentiates innovations that make the grade?


10 January 20197 January 2019

University lands £1.1m award to investigate plastics waste

UK researchers work on developing a new range of biodegradable plastics


14 December 201811 December 2018

Biome Technologies awarded further funding to scale solutions to plastic waste

Government's £6 million programme aims to use industrial biotechnology techniques to produce a new range of sustainable polymers


9 August 20177 August 2017

Cyrene, a biosolvent, to end the use of toxic solvents

Australian company Circa partnered with the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence (GCCE) at the University of York, UK and company Norske Skog to start industrial production in Europe


25 November 201623 November 2016

SynBio is gearing up

Synthetic Biology's large field of applications became apparent at the EFIB-conference in Glasgow, last October


3 March 201625 February 2016

From Upstream to Downstream, the importance of the Value Chain

Plant Based Summit shows optimism surrounding the commercialisation of renewable chemicals


29 February 201629 February 2016

UK Synthetic Biology Strategic Plan 2016

Strategic plan aiming to accelerate the commercialisation of synthetic biology products and services with clear public benefit


19 February 201618 February 2016

Carbon/Flax Hybrid Structures Show Improved Vibration Damping and Impact Behaviour

A UK-based consortium has developed carbon/flax hybrid structures with lower cost, higher vibration damping and improved impact behaviour compared to carbon fibre


21 October 201520 October 2015

TerraVerdae Makes Major Strides in Commercializing its Line of PHA Biomaterial Products

Major milestones in scale up at facilities in Edmonton, Alberta and Wilton, UK this summer demonstrateTerraVerdae's progress toward commercial deployment


11 September 201526 November 2015

Bioplastics as strong contenders in the market

The pursuit of environmentally materials has been growing considerably


3 September 20152 September 2015

Trending: Biobased Microbeads, Flexible Foams Could Offer Renewable Materials for Hundreds of Products

Developing technologies to produce commercial scale quantities of biomaterial products  is a milestone for each company


28 August 201526 August 2015

TerraVerdae Achieves Commercial Pilot-Scale Production for PHA Biomaterials

Develops commercially viable production process supported by Innovate UK grant


26 August 201524 August 2015

What is the bioeconomy?

The bioeconomy – transforming challenges into opportunity


27 May 201526 May 2015

NNFCC teams with Inspire Biotech to increase Consultancy capabilities

Collaboration to focus on strategic bioeconomy development and industrial biotechnology


30 April 201530 April 2015

5 years of Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant

Looking forward to welcoming you at the networking event of the year!


24 April 201523 April 2015

Biome Bioplastics leads £3m sustainable chemicals development programme

Researchers consortium to harness industrial biotechnology techniques to produce bio-based chemicals from lignin at a scale suitable for industrial testing


9 February 20156 February 2015

Horizon 2020: funding new technology for the UK biobased economy

NNFCC workshop attendees discussed EU funding opportunities and new technologies


29 September 201415 February 2018

Almac forms academia-industry collaboration to develop green chemicals

Team of scientists to develop novel chemical via an enzymatic route from under-utilised natural oil


25 June 201425 June 2014

The British plan for the bioeconomy takes a step forward

Lignocellulosic technologies are an important solution for enabling the use of non-food crops with the production of biofuels and bio-based chemicals


20 June 201418 June 2014

Next generation of bioplastics could be made from trees

BIOME, Warwick's University research demonstrate Lignin as low-cost feedstock for high performance chemicals


21 March 201419 March 2014

Dyson and CPI explore use of bioplastics in consumer products

New research project to help pave the way for future developments in this area


24 February 201421 February 2014

Interview: Dr. Celia Caulcott, BBSRC

A expert voice from the bio-based economy about the IB Catalyst initiative in the UK


20 January 201417 January 2014

2014 set to be a bumper year for biobased industry as funding pours in from the EU

Bio-based Industries Initiative to help Europe compete in the global bioeconomy market


19 April 2013

An Advance in Viability of Bioplastics?

Tim Sykes interviews Biome's CEO Paul Mines about bio-based plastics made from organic chemicals and lignin

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