{"id":24381,"date":"2015-02-10T03:15:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T02:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=24381"},"modified":"2015-02-09T18:41:45","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T17:41:45","slug":"global-bioenergies-first-milestone-hit-in-bioma-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/global-bioenergies-first-milestone-hit-in-bioma-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Bioenergies: First milestone hit in BioMA+ project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evry, February 4th, 2015 \u2013 Global Bioenergies (Alternext Paris: ALGBE) announces having reached the first milestone of the BioMA+ project which is financed by the French \u201cInvestissements d\u2019Avenir<\/a>\u201d State program. The project aims at developing a renewable value chain to methacrylic acid, a key constituent of acrylic paints. Achieving this first milestone result unlocks a \u20ac1.7m payment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Global Bioenergies\u00a0develops since 2008 a process to convert renewable resources into isobutene, a core petrochemical from which fuels, plastics and rubbers are derived.
\nThe company announced in 2013 that the French State had granted a \u20ac5.2m \u201cInvestissements d\u2019Avenir\u201d financing to a consortium composed of Arkema, the CNRS and Global Bioenergies. The objective was to put together and demonstrate at pilot scale a complete process that would first convert renewable resources (sugar, cereals and agricultural and forestry waste) into isobutene, which would in turn be converted into methacrylic acid, a key constituent of acrylic paints.<\/p>\n

Global Bioenergies was granted \u20ac4m for this project and had announced in 2014 having received an initial payment of \u20ac600K.<\/p>\n

Global Bioenergies\u00a0had in this context started-up an industrial pilot in November 2014 on the agro-industrial site of Pomacle-Bazancourt. The company ARD, a subsidiary of the sugar refiner Cristal Union, is in charge of the pilot\u2019s exploitation and now carries out on a weekly basis fermentation trials mimicking exploitation at full-scale.<\/p>\n

Tony Genovesi, Global Bioenergies\u2019 manager of the BioMA+ program declares: \u201cThe process adapts well to its new industrial environment, despite it being radically different to the laboratory environment in which it has previously been developed. We have produced more isobutene in the last three months than we had over the past five years!\u201d<\/p>\n

The French Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME), who operates the \u201cInvestissements d\u2019Avenir\u201d program for the State, has validated the first milestone of the BioMA+ project. As a result,\u00a0Global Bioenergies will soon receive a 1.7 million euro payment comprised for one third of a subsidy and for two thirds of a reimbursable advance.<\/p>\n

Marc Delcourt, CEO of\u00a0Global Bioenergies concludes: \u201cThe steady progress in scaling-up our isobutene process takes place while the oil industry is facing a major crisis. This crisis is linked to the massive but very temporary exploitation of American shale oil. However, it does not affect Global Bioenergies\u2019 fundamentals in the short or medium term because the oil market\u2019s equilibrium will most certainly be back before commercial exploitation of the isobutene process begins in 2017-2018. Moreover, our isobutene process would be competitive from $50 per barrel crude oil in specific markets, with demand that represents several commercial-scale plants\u201d.<\/p>\n

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About Global Bioenergies<\/h3>\n

Global Bioenergies\u00a0is one of the few companies worldwide, and the only one in Europe, that is developing a process to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation. The Company initially focused its efforts on the production of isobutene, one of the most important petrochemical building blocks that can be converted into fuels, plastics, organic glass and elastomers.\u00a0Global Bioenergies continues to improve the yield of its process and recently announced success with first testing in its industrial pilot. The company also develops in its laboratories two biological processes for the production of propylene and butadiene, two other members of the gaseous olefins family, key molecules at the heart of petrochemical industry.\u00a0Global Bioenergies is listed on Alternext, Euronext Paris (FR0011052257 \u2013 ALGBE).<\/p>\n

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Contact<\/h3>\n

Jean-Baptiste BARBAROUX
\nHead of Corporate Development
\nTel : + 33 (0) 1 64 98 20 50
\nEmail: jean-baptiste.barbaroux@global-bioenergies.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Evry, February 4th, 2015 \u2013 Global Bioenergies (Alternext Paris: ALGBE) announces having reached the first milestone of the BioMA+ project which is financed by the French \u201cInvestissements d\u2019Avenir\u201d State program. The project aims at developing a renewable value chain to methacrylic acid, a key constituent of acrylic paints. Achieving this first milestone result unlocks a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[4077,102,5072,2656,9149,1534],"class_list":["post-24381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-ademe","supplier-arkema","supplier-centre-national-de-la-recherche-scientifique-cnrs","supplier-cristal-union","supplier-french-government","supplier-global-bioenergies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24381","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=24381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24381"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=24381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}