New products for surgery, orthopaedics and cosmetics are manufactured from wine marc and grape seeds. An example of how the bioeconomy becomes a reality, saving resources, promoting local habitat and innovating a whole sector.<\/p>\n
It has all the ingredients to become a successful story. We are talking about Nobil Bio Ricerche, a Piedmont-based business located in Portacomaro, in the Asti area, that for over twenty years has specialized in the sector of dental implant materials. Indeed, the company has made research and innovations its strong suit, but with an edge, namely that of sustainability and recovery of raw materials. In a nutshell, the bioeconomy. So, Nobil Bio Ricerche is ready to launch on the market its new bone filler \u2013 that used in dental implantology \u2013 containing polyphenols, extracted from pomace from wine-making processes typical of the Piedmont hills. Thanks to the polyphenol molecules\u2019 characteristics, the filler is to stimulate bone regeneration, speeding up post-operation recovery period, both in dentistry and surgery.<\/p>\n
The wine-producing sector, in this case that of the Asti region, suddenly becomes not just a high quality wine production area, but a mine of raw materials in its own right. Because from what up until now has been considered waste or a by-product, it is currently possible to extract a series of important molecules for those processes improving human health and consequently life quality.<\/p>\n
Circular Economy, When Waste Becomes a Resource<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s talk about the circular economy. Such an economy extracts fewer raw materials and recovers them through widespread collection and recycling. In such context, there is no waste, but only new materials to reuse in increasingly innovative and innovating sectors.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf on the one hand for our applications we need marginal quantities of wine pomace, on the other it shows how heaps of \u2018waste\u2019 produced every year can represent true mines of precious materials,\u201d explains Marco Morra, Nobil Bio Ricerche CEO. \u201cA molecular science of waste is being developed. In this way, a new perception of waste is being created, mainly because of all the molecules it can contain.\u201d<\/p>\n
It is no coincidence that, last December, the European Commission adopted a new package of measures to help European businesses and consumers to carry out the transition towards a circular economy. \u201cOur planet and our economy will not survive if we carry on following the motto \u2018take, transform, throw away\u2019\u201d Vice-Chairman Frans Timmerman \u2013 in charge of the sustainable development \u2013 declared in a note. \u201cResources are precious and are to be conserved, exploiting their potential economic value to the full. The aim of the circular economy is to reduce waste while protecting the environment, but it also implies a profound transformation of how our entire economy works. Let\u2019s rethink the way in which we produce, work and buy: we will create new opportunities and new jobs. The current package represents the general framework that will allow such transformation. It puts forward a credible and ambitious path for a better waste management in Europe, backed up by actions concerning the whole products cycle; it embodies both a smart set of rules and regulations and EU-level incentives that will help businesses and consumers \u2013 but also national and local authorities \u2013 lead such transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is what Nobil Bio Ricerche decided to do, supporting not only research, but the creation of Innuva, an outright association of local companies for the promotion and application of polyphenols extracted from grape processing, which today are essentially thrown away or used to produce energy. \u201cThe association stems from a collaboration between Nobil Bio Ricerche and Uni-Astiss university hub\u201d claims engineer Giorgio Iviglia, company researcher. \u201cIt is a project started to disseminate the discoveries and acquired knowledge not only to the biomedical community, but also to other sectors, such as the cosmetic, nutraceutical or textile ones. Founded two years ago, the association\u2019s aim is to bring together all those companies basing their business on the circular economy, to give a new life to wine-making by-products, thus obtaining new ones.\u201d<\/p>\n
Innovation and a relationship with the local area is key, while keeping in contact with the rest of the industrial sector and research. \u201cWith this association we would like to act as an example also for other movements that may be created in the area for the reuse of by-products from sectors other than the wine-making\u201d concludes Iviglia.<\/p>\n
Polyphenols and the fight against aging<\/p>\n
Polyphenols are just organic natural molecules contained in many vegetable species, boasting effective antioxidant properties and the ability to contain free radicals. The latter are present in the cells and products, for example during an inflammation in order to fight pathogens. ROS (Reactive Oxygen Species), which is another name for free radicals, though, often attack healthy cells, damaging tissues. Hence skin aging or diseases such as pyorrhoea, ascribable to an excessive production of free radicals. In this case, scientific literature
\nhas been working for years to demonstrate how polyphenols, contained in wine as well, are able to reduce the so-called oxidative stress, thus preventing cellular aging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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