SCALED-UP PRODUCTION OF NEXT-GENERATION CARBOHYDRATE-DERIVED BUILDING BLOCKS TO ENHANCE THE COMPETITIVENESS OF A SUSTAINABLE EUROPEAN CHEMICALS INDUSTRY

About BIONEER

The platform chemicals sector is currently highly dependent on fossil fuels. In addition, the small volumes of current biobased platform chemicals are reliant on crops that diverts them from food uses, and there are also high environmental impacts linked with their land-use and supply cycles. Lignocellulosic feedstocks, particularly residues, are more sustainable, but to date, the range of chemicals that have been demonstrated at-scale from these has been limited. In particular, a range of functionalities associated with fossil derived platform chemicals exist that current biobased chemicals cannot replicate. BIONEER addresses this issue by demonstrating production of a range of new carbohydrate-derived building blocks and platform chemicals at TRL6/7.

The key aim of BIONEER is to broaden the range of biobased building blocks and platform molecules by demonstrating up-scale production of a range of novel molecules and polymers from lignocellulosic biomass. BIONEER thereby employs a unique combination of microbial and chemical production routes, with products suitable for application in the coatings and personal care sectors, while extending to the packaging sector in a zero-waste perspective.

The BIONEER project addresses the call topic HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023-IA-06: Selective, sustainable production routes towards bio-based alternatives to fossil-based chemical building blocks, and has received funding from the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking, under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement N° 101157779.

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