12/06/2017 - 13/06/2017
Valencia
Spain
URBIOFIN – Turning waste into new biobased products
The kick-off meeting of the URBIOFIN project “Demonstration of an integrated innovative biorefinery for the transformation of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) into new BioBased products” was held last 12th and 13th June 2017 in L’Alcudia (Valencia, Spain). The project is coordinated by the Spanish engineering company IMECAL and has received funding from the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 745785. With a budget of € 15 M and a duration of 4 years, the objective of the URBIOFIN project is to demonstrate the techno-economic and environmental viability of the conversion of the organic fraction of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) into different bioproducts (bioethanol, biochemicals, biomethane, bioplastics and additives) with a high industrial interest. The international URBIOFIN consortium is composed of 16 organisations: IMECAL S.A., AINIA, CIEMAT, URBASER S.A., IRIAF, Biomasa Peninsular S.A., University of Valladolid (Spain), Novozymes A/S (Denmark), GI Dynamics B.V. and Wageningen University & Research (The Netherlands), VISUM Ltd. (Ireland), NaturePlast and SES Stefany Emballages Services (France), Exergy Ltd. (UK), NATRUE AISBL (Belgium) and BCM BioEconomy Cluster Management GmbH (Germany).
