Bio-based Indus­tries Con­sor­ti­um wel­comes 27 new organisations

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• Algaen­ergy is a Span­ish SME spe­cial­ising in the field of microal­gae bio­tech­no­logy. The com­pany’s mis­sion is to devel­op nov­el products derived from microal­gae — nutri­tion­al, cos­met­ics, agri­cul­tur­al and ener­get­ic, among oth­ers — and to pro­duce them in an eco­nom­ic­ally viable way.
• Avan­ti­um is a Dutch SME spe­cial­ised in chemo-cata­lyt­ic­al con­ver­sion of sug­ars into bio-based products. Their ambi­tion is to imple­ment their pat­en­ted pro­cess across Europe.
• BIOPRO Baden Württem­berg is a Ger­man SME cluster that sup­ports the two stra­tegic pri­or­it­ies ​‘health’ and ​‘envir­on­ment sus­tain­ab­il­ity’ by tar­get­ing areas such as biobased mater­i­als, bio­med­ic­al engin­eer­ing, envir­on­ment, bioen­ergy and biopharmaceuticals.
• CE Polimat is a Slov­e­ni­an Cen­ter of Excel­lence for Poly­mer Mater­i­als and Tech­no­lo­gies. In BIC they act as an SME cluster, both rep­res­ent­ing their own SME mem­bers, as well as the SME mem­bers of the Slov­e­ni­an Plast­tech­nics cluster. The research area of renew­able resources, degrad­a­tion and sta­bil­iz­a­tion is focused on the use of mater­i­als from renew­able resources in poly­mer pro­duc­tion, and on the study of pro­cesses of degrad­a­tion and sta­bil­iz­a­tion of nat­ur­al and mod­i­fied nat­ur­al poly­mer materials.
• Cor­bion is the glob­al mar­ket lead­er in lact­ic acid, lact­ic acid deriv­at­ives and lactides, and a lead­ing com­pany in func­tion­al blends con­tain­ing enzymes, emul­si­fi­ers, min­er­als and vit­am­ins. Cor­bion, with its head office in the Neth­er­lands, is based on the found­a­tions of Pur­ac and Cara­van Ingredients.
• Hygear is a Dutch SME is spe­cial­ized in small-scale gas pro­cessing solu­tions. Its install­a­tions can con­vert and puri­fy gases to reduce harm­ful emis­sions and pos­sibly cre­ate valu­able product streams. Their ambi­tions in the bio-based eco­nomy include the util­iz­a­tion of bio-based sources to cre­ate valu­able base chem­ic­als, and the clean­ing of inter­me­di­ate gaseous products in the bio-based sup­ply chain.
• ISOIN is a Span­ish SME work­ing in Inform­a­tion Tech­no­logy and bio­mass fields, with exper­i­ence in ambi­ent intel­li­gence, soft­ware devel­op­ment, mobile com­mu­nic­a­tions and bio based solu­tions. One of ISOINS con­tri­bu­tions to the bio-based eco­nomy could be the devel­op­ment of intel­li­gent sys­tems enabling the man­age­ment of the bio­mass geo-loc­ated pro­duc­tion and effi­cient dis­tri­bu­tion; forests mon­it­or­ing systems.
• Met­gen Oy is a Finnish SME devel­op­ing dis­rupt­ive enzymat­ic products that enable sig­ni­fic­ant effi­ciency improve­ments in the pulp and paper and bio­fuel indus­tries. Enzymat­ic solu­tions are offered for the pre-treat­ment of a vari­ety of ligno­celul­losic sources.
• Plax­ica is a pro­cess tech­no­logy licens­ing SME from the UK. They devel­op, demon­strate and design pro­cess plants for the pro­duc­tion of the key inter­me­di­ates for con­ven­tion­al and ste­reo­com­plex poly­lact­ic acid (PLA) – a biopoly­mer made from renew­able materials.
• Total is a mul­tina­tion­al with their headof­fice in France. Total busi­ness aims at dis­cov­er­ing, pro­du­cing and trans­form­ing oil and gas and con­vert­ing oth­er nat­ur­al resources, espe­cially sol­ar and bio­mass, to provide energy-related products and ser­vices to their cus­tom­ers around the world.
• TKI-ISPT Bio-based SME cluster. ISPT (Insti­tute for Sus­tain­able Pro­cess Tech­no­logy) is a co-oper­a­tion between industry, uni­ver­sit­ies and research insti­tutes tar­geted at estab­lish­ing innov­at­ive and more sus­tain­able pro­cesses in the pro­cess industry. The ISPT Biobased SME Cluster rep­res­ents indus­tri­al SMEs act­ive in tech­no­logy devel­op­ment and real­isa­tion of biore­finer­ies using agri­cul­tur­al residue streams and new bio­mass sources to pro­duce a com­bin­a­tion of valu­able and mar­ket­able products.