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Breaking news on the SYMBA EU Project website! 📰💻 Discover the role of one of our partners, Climate-KIC, to stay up to date with our project development! Here the link ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

What do you like the most and what are your expectations in participating to the BIORING project? Increase scientific knowledge and advance our capacity to create coatings alternatives to petrol-based products, that in short-medium term will become both applicable by industry and useful to the society. Working in a collaborative framework, instead then a competitive one, with experts coming from different areas and disciplines, such as industrial coatings, recyclability, sustainability, consumers and end-users’ perspective, and market analysis. Trust, collaboration and knowledge sharing are the way to improve faster and better. It’s a win-win situation. CSIC | Process Design Center | Keuken & de Koning B.V., process engineers & consultants | GAIKER Centro Tecnológico | Airi - Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca Industriale | TEMAS Solutions | Exportun | GRUPPO COLOROBBIA | Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e. V. (LIKAT) | Vertoro B.V. | FAB Group Universidad Rey Juan Carlos | MAIER Group | MAIER TECHNOLOGY CENTRE | Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) #renewable #biocoatings #biodegradable #recyclable #EU #Innovation

Sol-Rec2 partners from TWI and the University of Leicester (ULEIC) presented the project consortium's latest progress and innovations at the recent Materials Science Conference held in Rome, Italy. Dr George V. Theodosopoulos, M.Sc, Ph.D of TWI gave a presentation on the Recycling of Multicomponent, Multi-layer Waste Employing Green Solvents, and Dr Adamantini Loukodimou, of the Materials Innovation Centre (#MatIC: a TWI- ULEIC partnership), representing Sol-Rec2, was a moderator during the second day of the event. Dissemination at this international conference generated strong engagement between industry and academia on the project, effectively promoting Sol-Rec2 objectives and results. About Sol-Rec2 - targets: 💚 Sorting: innovative #watermarks for faster, more efficient sorting of multilayer #packaging #materials 🌲 Recycling: delamination of multi-layer #material #waste through new, #green #solvent systems to reduce the demand for virgin raw materials 🍏 Sustainability: reducing the complexity of multi-layer materials leading to the design of more #sustainable, laminated packaging 📗 Environmental: minimising the #environmentalimpact and #carbonfootprint associated with virgin #plastics production and #extraction Project partners: IMP2 LIMITED, Solvionic, AIMPLAS · Technological Institute of Plastics, Mikrolin Hungary Kft., Plastigram Industries a.s., FiliGrade Sustainable Watermarks and MatIC. #sustainability #recyling #collaboratetoinnovate #TWIIN

#BIORING_INTERVIEWS #What is your #vision about the #development of the #biobased sector in #Europe? Being at the forefront of research and technology and investing in biobased innovation is essential, not only to address climate change, but also to compete and remain independent in the global scene. Europe is a relatively small region with limited natural resources, such as raw materials and energy, and biobased solutions could help. We need to be confident in our knowledge and capability, as I think we have the technologies and expertise to break the predominance of fossils-based raw materials. Europe is a top player in coatings research, alongside with USA. Polyurethane (PU) has been invented in Europe, and we remain quite competitive in PU-coatings. We are sustaining investments in sustainability of coatings, with two main different approaches: one is to look at the overall carbon neutrality of the manufacturing cycle, the other one is to increase the bio-based content of coatings. The latter is still not cost-effective, but it is anyway less expensive for companies than covering CO2 taxes related to fossil-based production. This is way I’m confident that European chemical companies will continue to sustain research and to develop biobased products to put on the market. However, given a lot of R&D is still far from the market, public investments remain crucial. In my view, they are not yet sufficient, and they should be long term. EU policies in green investments are somehow unstable, both in terms of funding and topics. For example, we have seen in the past a focus on research in biodegradable or compostable solutions, then suddenly the policy goals have been changed to full recycling approaches. Reed the full interview: https://lnkd.in/gGD-cSfG CSIC C | Process Design Center | Keuken & de Koning B.V., process engineers & consultants | GAIKER Centro Tecnológico | Airi - Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca Industriale | TEMAS Solutions | Exportun | GRUPPO COLOROBBIA A | Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e. V. (LIKAT) | Vertoro B.V. | FAB Group Universidad Rey Juan Carlos s | MAIER Group | MAIER TECHNOLOGY CENTRE | Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) #renewable #biocoatings #biodegradable #recyclable #EU #Innovation

  ACHEMA 2024 starts today! Exchange ideas with our experts and learn more about the global challenges and approaches of the chemical industry. 💧 We present our innovative noble metal-reduced catalyst materials for hydrogen technologies. The technology enables the development and optimization of more cost-effective catalysts that use fewer noble metals and can be used for electrolysis and fuel cells. 🧪 We also reveal our approach to using CO2 as a raw material to produce chemicals and materials. This innovative process offers a sustainable alternative to conventional plastics production, which is often based on fossil raw materials, and makes a significant contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. 📅 June 10-14 | Frankfurt a.M. | Messe Frankfurt | Hall 6.0 | Booth D49 #ACHEMA24 #HydrogenTechnology #GreenChemistry #WeKnowHow Fraunhofer-Allianz Chemie | Dr. Christoph Gimmler | Dr. Ulrich Wendler

❓ Do you want to know who is involved in #POLYMEER 's consortium?    Meet the 14 partners that participate in the POLYMEER Project, including universities, research centers, and companies from 8 countries.    They all contribute to transforming brewers' spent grain (#BSG) into high-performance, #biobased #polymers and materials that can replace traditional plastics 🌾♻️.    Università degli Studi di Perugia Sapienza Università di Roma Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant AIMPLAS · Technological Institute of Plastics Birra Peroni LOMARTOV SL Normec OWS Bio-Mi Sustainable Solutions Next Technology Tecnotessile University of Twente Zabala Innovation Europe Gate2Growth Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Borgstena #Sustainability #Bioplastics #CircularEconomy #EUFunded #Polymeer 

GAIKER Centro Tecnológico was one of the organizers at the XIV Workshop on Innovation in Plastic Materials and Technologies in #Bizkaia. The presentation "Innovative polymeric materials derived from biomass: Properties and opportunities" was an opportunity to present some of the cutting-edge results that BIORING is developing on #biobased #coatings. The attendance of more than 50 people from companies related to the plastics sector highlighted the growing interest in #sustainable #materials. CSIC | Process Design Center | Keuken & de Koning B.V., process engineers & consultants | GAIKER Centro Tecnológico | Airi - Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca Industriale | TEMAS Solutions | Exportun | GRUPPO COLOROBBIA | Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e. V. (LIKAT) | Vertoro B.V. | FAB Group Universidad Rey Juan Carlos | MAIER Group | MAIER TECHNOLOGY CENTRE | Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU)

Today on #Polyestertime (  https://lnkd.in/dPA5ez8B  ) you can read: -#Plasticpollution - A new study published in *#ACSSustainableChemistry & Engineering* has shown that #Eastman #Aventa™ #compostablematerials, specifically #cellulosediacetate (#CDA)-based #foams, rapidly #biodegrade in #marineenvironments, offering a promising solution to the #globalplasticpollutioncrisis  -Is #recyclingplastic a waste of time? -#Trinseo Announces Agreement to Sell #PolycarbonateTechnologyLicense and Stade, #GermanyPolycarbonate Assets to #DeepakChemTechLimited -#Rheom aterials Moves Closer to Commercializing #Bio-basedLeather Alternative -#Paper submissions open for 2025 #DornbirnGlobalFiberCongress & Innovation Days -#Sabic has introduced the #MegaMolding project, a program designed to foster synergy in developing large #thermoplasticcomponents

🗜 Did you know that we have uploaded a new paper entitled: Improving 5-(hydroxymethyl)furfural (HMF) tolerance of Pseudomonas taiwanensis VLB120 by automated adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE)? 📑 “The aldehyde 5-(hydroxymethyl)furfural (HMF) is of great importance for a circular bioeconomy. It is a renewable platform chemical that can be converted into a range of useful compounds to replace petroleum-based products such as the green plastic monomer 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA). However, it also exhibits microbial toxicity for example hindering the efficient biotechnological valorization of lignocellulosic hydrolysates (…). ℹ Read the full paper on our website: https://lnkd.in/deBgcsZM Aalborg University Forschungszentrum Jülich acib GmbH DTU - Technical University of Denmark Lund University TECNARO GmbH Bio-Mi Sustainable Solutions Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant  Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute AIMPLAS · Technological Institute of Plastics University College Dublin #Bioplastech Sustainable Innovations (SIE) RWTH Aachen University Vestforbrænding Susana XARÁ European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)

Fossil-free plastics are achievable. Why aren't we there yet? MNEXT's research group 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 faces many of these challenges. Our research aims to understand and overcome them. Does your company or organization face similar challenges? You are always welcome to get in touch with Martijn Zieverink, Professor in the research group, or one of the researchers: Willem van Liemt, Philippa Roots, Maddalena Eloisa Logrieco #materialtransition #biobasedtransitions