The PULP2VALUE pro­ject was awar­ded with the BBI award for the highest num­ber of cross-sec­tor­al interconnections

The second edi­tion of the Stake­hold­er For­um was a one-day pub­lic event that brought togeth­er the bio-based indus­tries com­munity to have an open dis­cus­sion on the impact, achieve­ments and stra­tegic dir­ec­tion of the pro­gramme of Bio-based Indus­tries Joint Under­tak­ing (BBI JU) as well as to present the latest devel­op­ments in the field of bio-based indus­tries. Phil­ippe Men­tal, BBI JU Exec­ut­ive Dir­ect­or, awar­ded the PULP2VALUE pro­ject with a prize for the highest num­ber of cross-sec­tor inter­con­nec­tions (KPI 1 of the BBI JU) on the BBI JU Stake­hold­er For­um 2019 in Brus­sels. For the award there were 4 nom­in­ees from over 100 pro­jects.

About the PULP2VALUE project

In 2015, Roy­al COSUN, coordin­at­or of the pro­ject and one of the lead­ing com­pan­ies in terms of sug­ar beet pro­cessing in Europe received fund­ing from the pub­lic-private part­ner­ship Bio-based Indus­tries Joint Under­tak­ing (BBI JU) for the demon­stra­tion pro­ject ​‘PULP2VALUE’. With­in the frame­work of the pro­ject, the com­pany designed and con­struc­ted the first sug­ar beet pulp biore­finery to cre­ate more valu­able products from this side-stream, which is usu­ally fur­ther val­or­ised as low value feed and/​or bio­gas. So, the PULP2VALUE approach demon­strates for the first time an integ­rated and cost-effect­ive cas­cad­ing biore­finery sys­tem for refin­ing sug­ar beet pulp and isol­at­ing high-qual­ity products for deter­gents, per­son­al care products, oil and gas, paints and coat­ings, and com­pos­ites. There­fore, many indus­tri­al; cross sec­tor­al and value chain col­lab­or­a­tions, such as for food and feed, chem­ic­al industry, paints and deter­gents or per­son­al care, paper, Oil and gas are exist­ing.

What does the price mean for the PULP2VALUE project?

Ger­ald Engelen, coordin­at­or of the demon­stra­tion pro­ject is very happy about the award: ​“The prize is a great recog­ni­tion for our hard work of the last 4 four years. Cross-sec­tor­al col­lab­or­a­tion is very import­ant for suc­cess­ful devel­op­ment of bio-based innov­a­tions and value chains. We knew that already when we star­ted, it was in our plan. So, it’s great that we also suc­ceeded doing this dur­ing the imple­ment­a­tion of P2V. We are happy that we were allowed to go on this jour­ney with such excel­lent part­ners and are very glad about the out­come of the pro­ject. Although P2V ended in July 2019 it’s cer­tainly not the end of the activ­it­ies, We are work­ing on devel­op­ment of the sup­ply chains towards com­mer­cial­isa­tion and the actu­al scale up and integ­ra­tion of the pro­cesses developed dur­ing the pro­ject”. Source: nova-Insti­tute, press release, 20.01.2020