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3 August 20209 September 2021

Kimberly-Clark Joins WWF’s Bioplastic Feedstock Alliance

Industry collaboration to explore and communicate the sustainability risks and opportunities associated with bioplastic production

Qualitative soil fertiliser: How natural cycles can be closed with wood ash

The RAL-Dünger label for fertilisers provides the necessary certification for natural wood ashes to be used in the circular economy

31 July 20203 August 2020

Due to high demand, the summer promotion is extended for the last time until the end of August: Summer promotion: 30% discount on all market and trend studies on the bio-based economy

The latest market report “Commercialisation updates on bio-based building blocks” has been updated to include the immediate effects of the corona crisis.

Bio-based industries are key to the EU’s green recovery, says BIC’s position paper

Creating bio-based value chains requires new connections and innovations across multiple and diverse sectors

First ISCC Plus certified producer of nonwovens for hygiene and medical applications

Company is looking forward to take this commitment to the next level and to explore the many possibilities together with its customers

Reliance to replace auto fuels with electricity, hydrogen; targets carbon-zero co by 2035

Company will use a new technology to convert carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals and other material building blocks

29 July 202024 July 2020

Digital supported production of medical cannabis

A challenge whose success lies in efficient process management and digital development!

28 July 202024 July 2020

Developing new circular materials from safe bio-based building blocks

New library of biobased materials will bring the circular ambitions of the European Union a step closer

Coffee capsules: wood instead of aluminium

rezemo produces sustainable coffee capsules from woodfibre-composites with a cellulose lid

27 July 202024 July 2020

The European Commission about to kill the hemp sector

Preliminary view states natural hemp extracts are a drug, against all reason, the latest scientific literature and the EU green ambitions

Towards A Greenhouse Gas Neutral German Chemistry

Climate protection platform „Chemistry4Climate“ launched by the big German associations VCI und VDI

Tiny Little Shrimp Could Spark Huge Energy Storage Breakthrough

Shrimp (May) Be The Key to Energy Storage That Flows

24 July 202022 July 2020

“The cost-performance-sustainability triangle needs to be considered”

Interview with Frank Hezel from BASF about the current market and the effect of the Corona pandemic to bio-based coatings

23 July 202021 July 2020

European Bioplastics Research Network Gets Underway

Network of Science, Companies and Politics for the Research and Development of Bio-based Plastics Gets Underway

Instead of treating CO2 as liability, we can make it raw material: Mukesh Ambani

The other participants in the conference included Prince Abdulaziiz bin Salman al-Saud, Minister of Energy, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and Patrick Pauyanne, CEO, Total and Tanya Beckett, as the moderator

Compostable materials market booms in Italy

Country has recently invested in a new extended producer responsibility scheme for compostable packaging called Biorepack

22 July 202021 July 2020

Using Existing Injection Blow Moulding Machinery For Bioplastics

As the consumer demand for biodegradable, eco-friendly products increases, the subsequent need for bioplastic packaging will as well

5 Minutes With… Phil Cruver from RegenBiomass

Pilot project in the Salton Sea Region of Southern California to create an environmental and economically sustainable bamboo industry for the United States

Senbis expands pilot facilities for sustainable plastics

Multi-million investment in R&D infrastructure

Educational Series Presents Episode 2 about Making Chemicals from Waste CO2

3-minute slide presentation shows examples of technologies used to make chemicals for the cement production, for transportation fuels, or for building block chemicals

21 July 202021 July 2020

Government announces Jet Zero Council and confirms support for Velocys waste-to-jet-fuel project

Grant Shapps on net zero carbon flying and Velocys' sustainable jet fuel plant

The potential of bio waste in Europe

BIC is actively involved in a number of European research programs to convert and process collected waste into useful applications

14 July 202024 December 2020

The world’s lightest shielding material

Protection against electromagnetic interference

New Candidate for Raw Material Synthesis Through Gene Transfer

“Natural gene transfer” into a multicellular cyanobacterium: Phormidium lacuna lends itself to fundamental research and biotechnical applications

10 July 20202 July 2020

Quantafuel receives investment from KIRKBI

KIRKBI has entered into an agreement to invest in Quantafuel and support the company’s ambition to further improve chemical recycling and showcase how mixed plastic waste can be recycled into new high-value quality materials

9 July 20202 July 2020

INEOS Styrolution reports final results of research project: post consumer polystyrene waste becomes valuable feedstock

The process promises to produce recycled polystyrene meeting food contact standards

8 July 20207 July 2020

Dr Markus Steilemann becomes new President of PlasticsEurope

In this new role Dr Steilemann will drive forwards the association and its memberships’ shared vision for greater circularity and sustainability, across the industry

New biosurfactants are greener than ever

Just over half of all surfactants currently on the market are at least partially produced from plant-based or other oleochemicals

7 July 202015 August 2020

BBI JU: a high-impact initiative for green recovery of Europe

BBI JU launched the publication BBI JU: a high-impact initiative for green recovery of Europe highlighting the environmental, socio-economic and technological impacts of the initiative

3 July 202028 June 2020

The Italian bioeconomy is alive and well. New Report: €345 billion the value of production

The Bioeconomy in Italy has significant prospects of growth in the next few years

1 July 2020

nova-Institute supports your smart transition to renewable carbon

What are future challenges, environmental benefits and successful strategies to substitute fossil carbon with biomass, direct CO₂ utilisation and recycling? What are the most promising concepts and applications?

29 June 202020 July 2020

Tackling Europe’s food waste problem – bio-based industries offer innovative solutions

Report details the current generation and capture rates of bio-waste for each EU27 Member State, plus Norway and the United Kingdom

Introducing the NextFilm Line of new compostable packaging films

SAES Coated Films uses its highly innovative proprietary technology to convert nextFilm into high-barrier compostable films

26 June 202023 June 2020

European Bioplastics appoints new Head of EU Affairs in Brussels

Bioplastics play a crucial role in helping to achieve the European Green Deal

25 June 202023 June 2020

Developing a lignin-based resin for plywood

New lignin-based glue significantly reduces the carbon footprint of plywood products

ZELCOR webinar series

Sustainable technical solution for the conversion of the recalcitrant by-products present in the side streams of ligno-cellulosic biorefineries

24 June 202022 June 2020

Bioplastics make wood cycles more sustainable

Innovative technologies and bacteria can transform wood residues into sustainable bioplastic packaging

23 June 202022 June 2020

63 bio-based industry leaders sign letter to EU Commissioners calling for a stronger recognition of the sector in the green recovery

Calling for a stronger recognition of the bio-based sector in the EU's green recovery

22 June 202017 June 2020

The automotive interior of the future: from display to vegan seat covers

Covestro and its partners develop a premium concept: Material solutions for a seamless, fully networked mobility

EUR 100 million support to create green solutions and products for the benefit of society

Novo Nordisk Foundation hopes that the funding will further strengthen Denmark’s position in the field of biotechnology

Solve invasive seaweed problem by turning it into biofuels and fertilisers

Seaweed could produce sustainable fuels, chemicals and fertiliser while helping protect tourist hotspots

Sum Studio’s home-grown cellulose mask promotes the benefits of biodesign

Cellulose fibers, knitted by bacteria into a single membrane that can be harvested and dried as a workable material

World’s Largest Renewable Hydrogen Plant (Part 2)

California has an existing and growing hydrogen infrastructure, with increasing hydrogen demand

19 June 202019 November 2020

nova experts introduced: Verena Bauchmüller (B.Sc. Social Sciences)

Dissemination, Communication, Project Management

New recycling recommendations help climate efforts

Iggesund Paperboard replacing common plastic trays with their own combination material Inverform, which is a paperboard tray with a thin plastic barrier

18 June 20209 September 2021

PHAs on the rise: for the first time, demand outstrips supply

PHAs can be recycled in any possible way, including natural degradation and serve as nutrients or as an energy source to organisms

Revolutionizing Tomahawk fuel

Los Alamos scientists are using feedstocks- such as corn bran - to power the Navy’s subsonic cruise missiles

Clean tech and climate policy could cut fossil fuel profits by two thirds

Countries must plan orderly exit from oil, gas and coal

17 June 202012 June 2020

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