{"id":170015,"date":"2025-11-07T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=170015"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T13:46:08","slug":"tuhh-start-up-everycarbon-receives-e2-5-million-in-funding-from-sprind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/tuhh-start-up-everycarbon-receives-e2-5-million-in-funding-from-sprind\/","title":{"rendered":"TUHH start-up EveryCarbon receives \u20ac2.5 million in funding from SPRIND"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"361\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/11\/everycarbon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-170073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/11\/everycarbon.jpg 361w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/11\/everycarbon-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2025\/11\/everycarbon-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u00a9 EveryCarbon<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>The Hamburg-based start-up\u00a0EveryCarbon, a spin-off from the\u00a0Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), has secured a further\u00a0\u20ac2.5 million\u00a0in funding in the\u00a0Circular Biomanufacturing Challenge\u00a0organised by the Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovations (SPRIND). The young company intends to use the funding to further develop its technology for the bio-based production of high-performance polymers from organic waste streams and scale it up to market maturity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EveryCarbon uses organic residues to produce a so-called&nbsp;<strong>platform chemical<\/strong>, i.e. a central building block for sustainable high-performance polymers, with the aid of microbial processes. The team&#8217;s vision is&nbsp;<strong>zero-waste production<\/strong>, in which waste materials become the starting point for new materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;What began as an idea on paper \u2013 that waste management and chemical production could one day go hand in hand \u2013 is now a functioning process,\u2019 says <strong>the EveryCarbon team.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p> After intensive development work, the start-up was able to demonstrate that the technology works in its own mini-plant. Funding from SPRIND now enables the next step: the\u00a0<strong>transition to continuous production<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>testing new waste streams<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>initial customer trials<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EveryCarbon is one of only a few teams to have made it through to the current SPRIND Circular Biomanufacturing Challenge. The aim of the challenge is to promote innovative biotechnological processes that can replace fossil resources in industrial production in the long term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to TU Hamburg, numerous partners are involved in the project, including the&nbsp;<strong>University of Hamburg (Institute for Technical and Macromolecular Chemistry), Fraunhofer IPA, IMDEA Energ\u00eda, TMI, IUE, TVT, LFKW B\u00fcsnau<\/strong>&nbsp;and the company&nbsp;<strong>Valensina<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u2018The support from SPRIND is a strong signal for the bio-based industry in Germany,\u2019 emphasises <strong>the team.<\/strong> \u2018We look forward to working with our partners to lay the foundation for truly circular materials \u2013 and to make every carbon count.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hamburg-based start-up\u00a0EveryCarbon, a spin-off from the\u00a0Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH), has secured a further\u00a0\u20ac2.5 million\u00a0in funding in the\u00a0Circular Biomanufacturing Challenge\u00a0organised by the Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovations (SPRIND). The young company intends to use the funding to further develop its technology for the bio-based production of high-performance polymers from organic waste streams and scale [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":170073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Startup revolutionises the use of organic waste ","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[17299,6026,5796,16436,10416,25684,16137],"supplier":[27175,3148,15884,27173,19327,26859,1195,27174],"class_list":["post-170015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biomanufacturing","tag-biopolymers","tag-biotechnology","tag-buildingblocks","tag-circulareconomy","tag-wastestreams","tag-zerowaste","supplier-everycarbon","supplier-fraunhofer-institut-fuer-produktionstechnik-und-automatisierung-ipa","supplier-imdea-energy","supplier-lehr-und-forschungsklarwerk-lfkw-der-universitat-stuttgart","supplier-sprin-d-bundesagentur-fur-sprunginnovationen-sprind-federal-agency-for-disruptive-innovation","supplier-technische-universitat-hamburg-harburg-tuhh","supplier-universitaet-hamburg","supplier-valensina-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170015"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=170015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}