The Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant enables the transition to a sustainable biobased economy by providing process development, scale-up and custom manufacturing services to companies around the world and within publicly funded consortia.
Let’s pay a virtual visit to the state-of-the-art facility in Ghent, Belgium, and see a wide and versatile array of unit operations for pretreatment of biomass, biocatalysis, fermentation, green chemistry and downstream purification to bring biobased innovations from Lab to Fab.
We’ll dive into several examples of EU projects in which BBEPP brought novel biobased materials to a higher TRL:
- The REPurpose project integrates the Safe and Sustainable by Design concept to create the world’s first infinitely recyclable and additive-free rubbery materials, based on local post-consumer plastic waste and integrated with biocarbon to optimise properties for a broad spectrum of applications overturning new standards of cost-function-ecology. Advanced polymer backbone design will give REP polymers unique characteristics of biodegradability and infinite recyclability through enzymatic recycling.
- The Glaukos project project was launched in 2020 to set up a circular approach to the clothing and fishing industry. As part of its goal, it developed alternative polymers that could help slash the microplastic pollution caused by clothing and fishing gear.
- The MY-FI project targeted the development of responsible fabrics composed of a new and innovative material based on mycelium micro-fibres, to meet the latest market demands for beautiful, sustainable and functional materials. The aim was to develop mycelium-based fabrics, that fully biobased, customizable, highly performing and can be produced through advanced manufacturing processes.