Current projects & initiatives
LUCRA
Transforming organic waste into biobased succinic acid
LUCRA is a Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) funded initiative on a mission to revolutionise biobased chemicals. Ten industrial partners and renowned research centres from seven countries representing the whole value chain from feedstock to products have joined forces to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of transforming organic waste into bio-succinic acid on a pre-industrial scale.
Learn more about the project here: https://lucra-project.eu/
BIONEER
Scaled-up Production of Next Generation Carbohydrate-derived Building Blocks to Enhace the Competitiveness of a Sustainable European Chemicals Industry
The platform chemicals sector remains heavily dependent on fossil fuels. Current biobased alternatives are produced in small volumes, often from food crops with significant environmental impacts. While lignocellulosic residues offer a more sustainable option, only a limited range of chemicals has been demonstrated at scale, and many fossil-based functionalities cannot yet be replicated. BIONEER tackles this challenge by demonstrating the production of new carbohydrate-derived building blocks and platform chemicals at TRL 6-7. The project aims to expand the portfolio of biobased molecules and polymers from lignocellulosic biomass through innovative microbial and chemical processes, developing products for the coatings, personal care, and packaging sectors – all within a zero-waste framework.
Learn more about the project here: https://www.bioneer-project.eu/
Past projects & initiatives
SweetWoods
Creating the future for wood industry
SweetWoods turns wood into high purity lignin and wood sugars to industrialize innovative biomaterials and bioproducts. SweetWoods’s objective is to implement pilot scale demonstrated technology at a full industrial scale in four years. The project aims to create industry-changing new value chains, where wood as sustainable raw material plays a vital role.
Learn more about it here: https://sweetwoods.eu/
BioCatPolymers
Sustainable and efficient bio-chemical catalytic cascade conversion of residual biomass to high quality biopolymers
BioCatPolymers was an H2020 project from 2018 to 2021, whose main objective was to demonstrate a cost-effective, sustainable and efficient cascade technological route for the conversion of low-value, low-quality residual biomass to bio-polymers with equal or better performance than their fossil-based counterparts. NEXT-STEP partners PDC and Quantis collaborated in this initiative.
Learn more about it here: http://biocatpolymers.eu/