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15 October 202514 October 2025

Invitation to the 3-CO Final Event: Empowering Bio-Based Choices Through Smart Certification

By developing smart label design guidelines, digital support tools, and implementing social innovation strategies, 3-CO addresses transparency and trust in bio-based products

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2 October 202526 September 2025

INDRESMAT: From ISC3 Start-up of the Month to a Pioneer in Bio-Based Insulation Materials and Construction Solutions

With its self-developed sRIM-PUR technology, the company creates energy-efficient products that use renewable resources, avoid harmful additives, and promote circularity

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1 October 202525 September 2025

Braskem’s sustainable advancements take center stage at K 2025

Resilient transformation, global reach, and pioneering carbon thinking headline Braskem's presence at the world's leading plastics and rubber fair

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30 September 202524 September 2025

National Winner: ENSO – Built to Return

ENSO tackles material complexity and obsolescence by rethinking luggage as a circular system - modular, repairable and responsable

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Bringing Bio-Based into Green Public Procurement: Lessons from Catalonia and Zeeland

Bio-based solutions, made from renewable resources, offer practical alternatives that directly help reduce emissions, close material loops, and replace virgin raw materials with circular ones

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29 September 202523 September 2025

NCGA Honors Three Winners Driving Innovation in Consider Corn Challenge V

Three winners were chosen, each with a unique way to improve a product or process using corn to produce biobased materials

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8 September 20252 September 2025

ABB and Citroniq target a world first with 100% bio-based polypropylene facility

The world’s first facility for 100% biogenic full commercial-scale polypropylene will be using corn-based ethanol feedstock to advance low-carbon plastics manufacturing

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3 September 20253 September 2025

Renewable Materials Conference 2025: Calling Brands, Start-ups and Chemical Companies to Shape the Future of Chemicals and Materials

There are less than three weeks left to register for the world's largest event on innovative and renewable chemicals and materials, fossil-free plastics, and related policies, which will take place from 22–24 September 2025 in Siegburg/Cologne, Germany

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18 July 202515 July 2025

Alder BioInsights News Review, Biobased Products 160, July 2025

The European Commission’s recent decision to withdraw the EU Green Claims Directive, citing concerns over complexity and administrative burdens, has created a degree of uncertainty regarding future environmental marketing standards

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16 May 202513 May 2025

Biomaterials are back on the green investment agenda

Biomaterials companies received $392 million in funds in the first three months of 2025 alone

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1 April 202528 March 2025

Bio-based Products – Examples, Facts and the Role of Concise Labelling and Certification

In its latest factsheet, the Horizon Europe project 3-CO introduces the characteristics of bio-based products and critically debunks prevalent misconceptions and offers evidence-based insights into the environmental benefits of, and facts on BBPs

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31 March 202528 March 2025

Guiding Green Choices: How Digital Tools Support Sustainable Consumption and the EU Bioeconomy

The 3-CO research team delved into understanding consumer needs and motivations related to sustainable purchasing - and identified several key drivers

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18 March 202517 March 2025

Smithers-Oasis Launches Plant-Based Floral Foam

OASIS® Renewal ™ Floral Foam is certified OK biobased with a 4-star rating from TÜV Austria

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24 February 202524 February 2025

Haffner Energy, LanzaJet, and LanzaTech Join Forces to Unlock Alcohol-To-Jet SAF Production from Biomass Residues

The three companies are exploring SAF production opportunities

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20 February 202518 February 2025

The power of biobased solvents in paint, electronics, and more

Here are the areas where these green chemicals are making a mark

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10 February 20256 February 2025

Enduro Genetics raises €12 million to unlock the future of scalable bioproduction

Enduro Genetics – the synthetic biology startup is transforming biomanufacturing by “addicting” cells to high production and the funding will be used to expand their platform and scale commercialization

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5 February 202531 January 2025

Enabling more sustainable biocomposite materials 

Founded in 2017, BioPowder is a producer and supplier of high-grade fruit stone powders and bio-based abrasives derived from fruit processing streams

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3 February 202531 January 2025

UPM Raflatac continues its collaboration with WWF Poland on circular economy and privately protected areas

During the new three-year contract period the collaboration will focus on enabling the development of circular economy and promoting privately protected areas, especially the wetlands in Poland

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31 January 20251 February 2025

Free Webinar: Certification and Innovation in Bio-Based Construction

Certification plays a critical role in this transformation, providing a robust framework for validating the sustainability performance and attesting to the environmental credentials of these innovative bio-based materials

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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

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9 December 20243 December 2024

Lactips raises €16 million

Lactips, a French company specializing in the development, production and commercialization of a 100% biobased natural polymer that is water-soluble and biodegradable in all environments, has announced a €16 million fundraising round

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6 December 20244 December 2024

Ukhi Secures $1.2 Million Pre-Seed Funding Led By 100 Unicorns to Disrupt Sustainable Packaging Industry

Delhi-based biomaterials startup, Ukhi, with operations in Haryana and Uttarakhand, has raised $1.2 million in pre-seed funding in equity and debt to develop novel, biodegradable, and compostable biomaterials aimed at transforming the sustainable packaging industry

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4 December 202429 November 2024

UNCAGED Innovations launches ELEVATE: a sustainable leather alternative in partnership with global fashion brands

Central to UNCAGED’s innovative approach is its proprietary technology platform, BioFuze

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19 November 202414 November 2024

Inscripta® Announces Biomanufacturing of a Rapidly Growing Anti-aging Skincare Ingredient

Inscripta Achieves Important Milestone and Demonstrates Its Novel Whole Genome Engineering Biotechnology Platform With Accelerated Timelines

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18 November 202415 November 2024

Teijin Frontier Announces Global Availability of Biodegradable BIOFRONT® PLA Resin

This resin, named to signify cutting-edge biotechnology, is now fully commercialized in Japan and internationally

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Earthfirst® Films Launches Unprinted, Regenerative Material Pre-lams

Delivering on performance, sustainability and speed-to-market – sustainable pre-lams are now available

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15 November 202412 November 2024

Water hyacinth plant pots

Water hyacinth is a rapidly spreading plant that has been recognized as a threat to existing ecosystems in many countries around the world

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14 November 202413 November 2024

Biolive has started using olive pits to make plastics

The company that is in charge of this project, started out as a university exercise within an entrepreneurship class and from there it developed into a business that is currently focused on creating plastics from olive pits

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Biden-Harris Administration Announces $239 Million to Increase Access to Clean, Affordable Domestic Biofuels as Part of Investing in America Agenda

Funding from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act Will Continue to Provide More Cost-Effective Options for American Consumers

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8 November 20245 November 2024

Poland’s growing bioeconomy

Poland is among the fastest growing EU economies today, recording the region’s largest annual and quarterly GDP jump in the second quarter of this year

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6 November 202431 October 2024

Avantium and Royal Vezet collaborate on PEF-based packaging trays for Albert Heijn’s salad bowls

Avantium’s PEF (polyethylene furanoate) is a 100% plant-based, fully recyclable polymer and offers a renewable and circular packaging solution for Royal Vezet’s salad bowls

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24 October 202422 October 2024

Paboco unveils the world’s first market ready paper bottle and cap

Paboco and Blue Ocean Closures have collaborated to create the industry’s first market-ready paper bottle and fiber-based cap combination, available today and expected to reach consumers in early 2025

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23 October 202417 October 2024

Oil dispenser made from leftovers from the cooking oil industry

Design with sunflower seed shells

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22 October 202415 October 2024

Cambridge-based PACT raises €10.7 million to industrialise scaleable biomaterials made from collagen

PACT has raised a €10.7 million seed round to advance the development and reach of pioneering biomaterials inspired by nature. The investment came from Hoxton Ventures, ReGen Ventures, Celsius Industries (formerly UNTITLED) and Polytechnique Ventures

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18 October 202417 October 2024

Rapid growth in Europe’s biorefinery sector – new nova-Institute report commissioned by Cepi highlights main results for the pulp and paper industry

Turnover in wood fibre-based biorefineries reaches €6 billion, doubling in just three years

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Chempolis Oy announces new ownership and transfer of Fortum Bio2X

Chempolis Oy, a provider of groundbreaking biorefining technologies, is pleased to announce two significant milestones in the company’s journey

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17 October 202416 October 2024

Application of nova-Institute’s Biomass Utilisation Factor in the Horizon Europe Project BioReCer

In a recent interview, Nadja Wulff from nova-Institute and Christopher vom Berg from the Renewable Carbon Initiative shed light on the Biomass Utilisation Factor (BUF) and its significance within the BioReCer project

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26 September 202423 September 2024

Special offer to celebrate our anniversary!

We're celebrating 10 years of Golden Compound GmbH! To mark the occasion, we're offering an exclusive anniversary deal on our home-compostable bioplastics for injection moulding

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22 August 202419 August 2024

Industry’s workhorse chemicals go biobased

Thousands of chemicals are used by consumers and businesses every day. At the base of most of their supply chains lie petrochemicals

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25 June 202423 June 2024

Enzymes Instead of Cyanide: Researchers Develop Biocatalytic Process for Nitrile Production

The prevalent production process used so far has required a chemical reaction of certain molecules with highly toxic cyanide

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19 June 20242 October 2024

IFPEN and ResiCare, leaders in the development of a production process for the non-toxic* biobased molecule 5-HMF

Following ten years of laboratory research on the conversion of fructose into a biosourced molecule, 5-HMF, IFPEN joined forces with ResiCare in 2021 to develop a process for producing 5-HMF on an industrial scale

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12 June 20247 June 2024

Axalta Launches Industry First Range of ISCC Plus Certified Biobased Powder Coatings

Alesta® BioCoreTM provides a sustainable alternative to incumbent products containing fossil fuel-based polyester resins

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14 May 202413 May 2024

Dow, Henkel and Kraton Jointly Drive Sustainability in North American Consumer Goods Industry

Industry Leaders Work Together to Reduce Emissions in Adhesive Products

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13 May 202410 May 2024

nova-Session: Raising awareness for sustainable bio-based products through labelling and certification

The three-hour webinar will present different options for certifying the sustainability of biomass and bio-based products and discuss future requirements in the frame of the Green Claim Directive

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3 April 202427 March 2024

AFYREN NEOXY receives €3.4 million milestone payment as part of the AFTER-BIOCHEM project

The payment, recognised in the 2023 accounts of AFYREN NEOXY, is the third instalment of a €20 million grant

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Flow Series made from wood biocomposite using 3D printing technology

Nazar Sigaher together with CIRCULA focusing on wood biocomposite material made from residual waste

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28 March 202420 March 2024

Promising environmental degradation of PISOX polyesters

UvA chemists have now developed a strong, heat-resistant plastic that breaks down in the nature after six months. “It’s a different mindset, but plastics with an expiration date make a lot more sense.”

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UvA chemists develop new type of bio-based plastic: “Strong, recyclable and biodegradable”

UvA chemists have now developed a strong, heat-resistant plastic that breaks down in the nature after six months

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25 March 202419 March 2024

SCALE Advanced Biocomposites Revolutionises Carbon Fibre Replacement in Cycling Industry

New BIO|Power™ and COR|Power™ products aim to reduce materials costs and greenhouse emissions while enhancing performance

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22 March 202419 March 2024

Sustainable plastics from agricultural waste

EPFL scientists have developed a sustainable method to make high-performance plastics from agricultural leftovers, turning them into valuable materials