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🚀 Milestone achieved for the COUNTLESS project! Our coordinator VITO, who has brought the LignoValue Pilot Plant and demo site online, has just shipped the first samples to application developers, marking an exciting step forward. Our project partners at Soprema Group, VTT, Daren Labs, Braskem, and Kastamonu Entegre will now use the material to start creating novel intermediates for a range of applications, unlocking new possibilities in sustainable production. 🌱🔬 This is a key moment in our project, toward enlarging the bio-based intermediates portfolio. #Sustainability #Innovation #CircularBioBasedEconomy #EUprojects Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU)

Greetings from Estonia - as our consortium meets today in Tallinn, hosted by our project partner Fibenol The main focus of this consortium meeting at month 13 of the COUNTLESS project is a workshop on sustainability assessment, value chain definition, and exploitation. Miet Van Dael from VITO prepared an interactive workshop, where all partners laid out their value chains on cards, moving them as needed. The open discussion allowed us to visualise all value chains towards the products aimed for in the project. This will prepare the way to collect the data necessary for life cycle analyses and techno-economic analysis. It also laid the basis for exploitation plans and stakeholder mapping. Also on the agenda: updates from the lignin producers (Bloom Biorenewables in addition to Fibenol), the lignin analysts (Universiteit Utrecht), and the lignin depolymerisation team at VITO Yesterday, we had the chance to visit Fibenol's plant in Imavere, the SWEETWOODS biorefinery. They supply one of the lignin streams for the project. It was impressive to see this large installation up and running and we thank the team at Fibenol, especially Kait Kaarel Puss and Signe Reinumägi, for their hospitality! #innovation #lignin #bio-based #bioeconomy Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU)

🌍✨ One year ago, our consortium gathered for the kick-off meeting in Mol, Belgium. Since then, we’ve been making significant progress 📣: ✅ The demo site at VITO is up and running, utilities installed, units delivered, and the first lignin depolymerisation reactions have been successfully completed! 💪🏽 📦 Our feedstock partners, Fibenol and Bloom Biorenewables have sent their first samples and are building a stockpile of lignin to feed the next depolymerisation campaigns at the LignoValue Plant. 🔬 Our academic collaborators at Universiteit Utrecht are diving into the analysis and modeling of lignin samples and fractions. 🔍 Sustainability groundwork is being prepared by ifeu - Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg gGmbH and VITO. Next up: a workshop on sustainability and exploitation, together with CLIB - Cluster Industrielle Biotechnologie at our next consortium meeting. 🚀 Application developers are ready to receive samples soon. Exciting times ahead, and we’ll continue to keep you posted! #Sustainability #Lignin #Innovation #COUNTLESSProject #CircularEconomy #GreenChemistry

Congrats to the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) team on their achievements so far! Funded by CBE JU, we will work to continue technology transfer and scale-up to create more bio-based chemicals and help realise the #bioeconomy.

🌱 COUNTLESS: 13 project partners working to expand the biobased chemicals portfolio 🌍 Over the past weeks, we’ve introduced all partners in the COUNTLESS project. Based on lignin provided by Bloom Biorenewables and Fibenol, our coordinator VITO is developing the first continuous chemical depolymerisation process for lignin, creating valuable fractions of aromatic molecules for further refining and application development. 🧪 🔬 Universiteit Utrecht’s analytics will help improve the process conditions and characterize the resulting samples. 🌿 Our value chains from lignin are: Functional additives for personal care products 💄 Flame retardants and UV stabilizers for synthetic waterproofing membranes and wood panels 🔥 Thermoset adhesives for wood-based panels, automotive, and windmills 🚗💨 PU thermal insulation foams and PU coating 🏠 Bitumen binders 🚧 Our partners Braskem, Daren Labs, Kastamonu Entegre, SOPREMA Entreprises, and VTT will soon receive samples from VITO to start their experiments. 🎯 ifeu - Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg gGmbH will guide with holistic assessments, while CLIB - Cluster Industrielle Biotechnologie will drive communication on the project’s goals – and soon, the first results! 💬🔜 🌲 #Biobased #Innovation #Lignin 🍃 #CircularEconomy 🌳 #SustainableChemistry #COUNTLESSProject Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) 🌐 Read more about the project: https://lnkd.in/eKzpGfs4

🌍📣 COUNTLESS partner introductions – VTT 🌿 🔬 COUNTLESS also aims at developing novel, sustainable, bio-based coating materials. This is the specialty of our partners at VTT, the Technical Research Centre of Finland. 🌱 VTT’s activities are focused on three areas: - Carbon neutral solutions - Sustainable products and materials - Digital technologies 💡 VTT is impact-driven and takes advantage of its wide multi-technological knowledge base to strengthen Finnish and European industrial competitiveness. VTT can combine different technologies, produce information, upgrade technology knowledge, and create business intelligence and value-added for its stakeholders.🌍 Over the years, VTT has gained vast experience from participation and coordination of numerous European projects, including R&D Framework Programme projects and other thematic frameworks and programmes. VTT is ranked among the leading European RTOs. 📅 Stay tuned as we introduce all our project partners over the coming weeks. 🌐 Read more about the project: https://lnkd.in/evmqs9FY 🌲 #bioeconomy #lignin 🍃 #COUNTLESS_Project #sustainability🌳 Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) VITO Bloom Biorenewables Braskem CLIB - Cluster Industrielle Biotechnologie Daren Labs Fibenol ifeu - Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg gGmbH Kastamonu Entegre SOPREMA Entreprises Universiteit Utrecht VTT

🌍📣 COUNTLESS partner introductions – Kastamonu Entegre 🌿 🌳 Our project partner Kastamonu Entegre will bring environmentally friendly products to consumers: particle boards with lignin-based adhesives and lignin-based flame-retardant chemicals. 🏭 Kastamonu Entegre was established in 1969 in the forestry and wood-based panel sector including raw and melamine-coated particleboards, medium density fibreboards, glossy panels, laminate flooring, door panels, kitchen worktops, skirtings, and various value-added products that are needed by the furniture, decoration, and construction sectors. 🌍 Today, Kastamonu Entegre has become a global power which is the 1st in Turkey, the 3rd in Europe, and the 4th in the world in its field with 7500 employees. Maintaining its uninterrupted production for half a century in the wood-based panel industry, Kastamonu Entegre is a global-scale company engaged in production in 6 countries, with investments in Romania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russia, Italy, and Turkey. In the USA, it has a company that carries out wood chip supply and logistics processes. 🔬 Kastamonu Entegre carries out studies on product and process development, efficiency increase, efficient resource utilization, and advanced material technologies in its R&D centre in Istanbul, which it has set up to develop technologies of the future. 🔧 In the project, Kastamonu Entegre will test and apply the lignin-based adhesives and flame-retardants in its production – bringing the use of these bio-based chemicals to industrial scale. 📅 Stay tuned as we introduce all our project partners over the coming weeks. 🌐 Read more about the project: https://lnkd.in/eyg96PYR 🌲 #bioeconomy #lignin 🍃 #COUNTLESS_Project #sustainability🌳 Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) VITO Bloom Biorenewables Braskem CLIB - Cluster Industrielle Biotechnologie Daren Labs Fibenol ifeu - Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg gGmbH Kastamonu Entegre SOPREMA Entreprises Universiteit Utrecht VTT

📣 COUNTLESS partner introductions – CLIB - Cluster Industrielle Biotechnologie 📣 CLIB is an international open-innovation cluster. 🌍 It has over 115 members from Germany and 15 other countries, which come from diverse industries and markets such as biotechnology, chemistry, food and feed, home and personal care, textiles, and others. 🧬🍽️🧴👚 All its members (large industry, SME, academia, investors, start-ups, …) share the vision for biotechnology as key in a sustainable circular bioeconomy. ♻️ CLIB connects its members within and beyond the cluster to initiate new research and business projects, networking diverse actors along and across value networks and to identify new opportunities. 🌐 CLIB links feedstock owners with technology providers, processing industries, and consumer industries.🧪🏭🛒 By engaging in projects such as COUNTLESS, the cluster helps accelerate tech development and facilitate scale-up to help bring products and processes to application. 🚀🔧➡️🏭 📅 Stay tuned as we introduce all our project partners over the coming weeks. 🌐 Read more about the project: https://lnkd.in/eEXZebHc 🌲 #bioeconomy #lignin 🍃 #COUNTLESS_Project #sustainability🌳 Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) VITO Bloom Biorenewables Braskem CLIB - Cluster Industrielle Biotechnologie Daren Labs Fibenol ifeu - Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg gGmbH Kastamonu Entegre SOPREMA Entreprises Universiteit Utrecht VTT

🌍📣 COUNTLESS partner introductions – SOPREMA France 🌿 🏗️ SOPREMA is one of the end users of the bio-based chemicals developed in the COUNTLESS project. This 🏠 family-owned construction materials company is based in France and has more than 100 years of history. SOPREMA designs and produces numerous technologies for 🌧️ waterproofing and 🧱 insulation materials. Identifying alternatives to fossil-based materials has been one of the key research topics at SOPREMA for more than 10 years. Several 🌿 biobased and ♻️ recycled products are part of the current portfolio, and the development of other sustainable solutions is in the works, especially for polyurethane materials and their equivalents. For SOPREMA, COUNTLESS is a great framework for bringing the development of bio-based construction solutions to the next step. 🚀 📅 Stay tuned as we introduce all our project partners over the coming weeks. 🌐 Read more about the project: https://lnkd.in/eCJgm5fm 🌲 #bioeconomy #lignin 🍃 #COUNTLESS_Project #sustainability🌳 Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) VITO Bloom Biorenewables Braskem CLIB - Cluster Industrielle Biotechnologie Daren Labs Fibenol ifeu - Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg gGmbH Kastamonu Entegre SOPREMA Entreprises Universiteit Utrecht VTT

🌍📣 COUNTLESS partner introductions – ifeu - Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg gGmbH 🌿 ifeu - Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg is our expert for sustainability assessments in COUNTLESS. They provide a 🌍 worldwide research and consultancy service in relation to all major environmental and sustainability issues and have over 25 years of expertise in life cycle assessments. In the project, they help the partners understand how the sustainability of the developed process and product applications can be ensured and improved. Only by integrating 🌱 environmental (LCA), 💰 economic (TEA), 👥 social (sLCA) as well as 🛡️ regulatory, ⚕️ health, and 🔒 safety aspects can strategic decisions on the further exploitation of the project’s results be made. 📅 Stay tuned as we introduce all our project partners over the coming weeks. 🌐 Read more about the project: https://lnkd.in/e75pSquq 🌲 #bioeconomy #lignin 🍃 #COUNTLESS_Project #sustainability🌳 Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) VITO Bloom Biorenewables Braskem CLIB - Cluster Industrielle Biotechnologie Daren Labs Fibenol ifeu - Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg gGmbH Kastamonu Entegre SOPREMA Entreprises Universiteit Utrecht VTT