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PERSEO Biotechnology S.L. is a Spanish SME created in 2020 as a spin-off of the R&D Department of IMECAL, an engineering company of the metal sector. PERSEO is specialized in the process development and building up of the processes for the conversion of the organic fraction of wastes into added value products: biofuels, bioenergy and bioproducts, using the own patented process and technology know-how. PERSEO also offers technology collaboration services and upscaling of own or co-developed processes as well as complementary services to assess the feasibility and the scalability of the biotechnological processes. PERSEO process, which includes pre-treatment, enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation stages, among others, has been optimized for different raw materials (lignocellulosic, agri-food, municipal wastes). The different organic biodegradable wastes can be converted into advanced bioethanol (a liquid biofuel or a raw material for the chemical industry) or into other added value bioproducts from the fermentation of sugars and in other products with high potential in the market (biosurfactants, biofertilizers or biomethane by anaerobic digestion). The main by-product produced during the fermentation of sugars into bioethanol is CO2, and the valorisation of this emitted gas is key for PERSEO to achieve a zero waste biorefinery concept.
ainia is a RTD centre focused in the agro-food sector and related industries. Nowadays, ainia has more than 700 food SME´s company members of its organization. The aim of the centre is to promote research and technological development in the agro-food sector, to increase quality in production, improve competitiveness and promote modernization and diversification in the agro-food industries. This is achieved providing a wide range of technological services to its members, through the execution of scientific research projects and technology transfer to the industry.
URBASER, group belonging to the company FIRION INVESTMENTS, is a worldwide reference in the area of environment, dedicated to activities in Street Cleaning, waste removal and transporting, urban waste treatment and recycling and comprehensive management of the water cycle and urban landscape and gardening. URBASER is the leader in removal and treatment of used mineral oils and treatment and removal of industrial waste. URBASER covers the entire value chain when providing these services, from designing and conception, carrying out the project, construction, financing and operating a highly-qualified professional team. URBASER also operates in the field of renewable energies with a view to limiting the negative impact of greenhouse gases, for the purpose of which it is developing treatment processes for alternative sources of energy, biomass from biomass crops, waste woodland mass, biodegradable agricultural and industrial waste.
BIOMASA PENINSULAR is a Spanish SME providing technology and services for the recycling of bioresidues. BIOMASA operates 5 recycling centers and manages 170.000 t/year. Main role of BIOMASA as WP5 leader is related with production of biofertilisers and testing and validation of biofertilisers and bioplastics, as final products from URBIOFIN biorefinery. Liquid and solid state biofertilisers will be developed from microalgae extracts from Biomethane upgrading and organic residual flows from down-stream units of Fermentation and AD. Main biofertilisers formulation will take place at “R&D&i and Experimental Production Center Algodor”, in Toledo (70 km from Madrid).
The Department of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology at the University of Valladolid (UVa) started its research activities in the early 80s in the treatment of industrial wastewaters and biological nutrient removal. Other research lines such as biological gas treatment, microalgae-based wastewater treatment and biomass valorization were initiated in 2000. Since 1980, the EnvTech has conducted a sustained and intense labour in the development of cost-effective technologies for pollution control in both wastewater and off-gas emissions. The 15 years of expertise in microalgae-based wastewater treatment and biological gas treatment support the capacity of the group to conduct the task assigned in URbiofin. The academic and scientific productivity of the group during these past 10 years accounted for 31 PhD theses presented, 216 JCR articles, 4 patents and 250 contributions to International Congresses. http://envtech.uva.es http://gastreatment-microalgaeresearchgroup.blogspot.com.es
Novozymes is the world leader in biological solutions. Together with customers, partners and the global community, we improve industrial performance while preserving the planet’s resources and helping build better lives. As the world’s largest provider of enzyme and microbial technologies, our bioinnovation enables higher agricultural yields, low-temperature washing, energy-efficient production, renewable fuel and many other benefits that we rely on today and in the future. We call it Rethink Tomorrow.
Wageningen UR develops sustainable production processes, biobased materials, and biomass valorisation strategies that will transform the current economy into a sustainable bioeconomy. With innovative technologies, Wageningen UR turns both primary crops and residues from the food industry, agriculture and natural infrastructure into marketable products and energy: human food, animal feed, chemicals, materials, fuels, power and heat. The Institute Wageningen Food & Biobased Research (WFBR) will represent Wageningen UR in this project with its expertise in fermentation and miccrobial production of medium chain-length (mcl) fatty acids and of PHAs and with the development of industrial applications for these components.
CIEMAT (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas) is a Public Research Institution depending on the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. CIEMAT will be focused on adapting/improving the PERSEO bioethanol production process to the new feedstock by optimizing pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation steps. Main objectives of CIEMAT are to promote and execute research, innovation and technical development in the energy sector. CIEMAT research is conducted in cooperation with other institutions and organisations in joint R&D&I projects, providing specialized technical services, education and training. The Biofuels Unit is attached to the Renewable Energies Department of CIEMAT, whose and the main objective is to perform R&D projects in the renewable energies area, both in resources evaluation and conversion technology development. The Biofuels Unit performs R&D projects in the area of bioconversion processes to transform lignocellulosic biomass into bioproducts and biofuels such as bioethanol, by means of efficient and low cost biotechnological routes, facilitating that these processes can be adopted by industry.
Natureplast Company is specialized in supporting bioplastics applications development through its activities:
  • Raw materials distribution: hundreds of different references of biobased and / or biodegradable materials (PLA, PHAs, PBS, starch based materials, etc.) available with worldwide network.
  • Services such as project engineering, technical support, technical survey, training, etc.
  • And Research & Development through its 100% owned daughter company Biopolynov: our compounding facility allows us to develop and produce compounds with improved properties depending of our customers and applications needs.
The company’s works usually concerns improving mechanical, processing or thermal properties through the use of several raw materials, additives, natural fibers, nanofillers or by-products (or wastes) from different industries. In summary, the goal is to help industry to put bioplastics end-products into the market through our access to raw materials and our capacity to develop specific compounds with improved properties.
The Regional Institute of Castilla-La Mancha for Agri-Food and Forest Research and Development (IRIAF), which belongs to the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment of the Regional Government of Castilla-La Mancha (JCCM), consists of seven different research centres. It developed the CLAMBER Project (Castilla-La Mancha Bio-Economy Region Project) and has extensive experience in proceedings related to R&D&i as well as dissemination and training activities related to the agri-food and forest sectors. Thanks to this Project, which was co-funded with ERDF through the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the National Government of Spain (MINECO), the CLAMBER Plant was built in 2015. It is a public demonstrative biorefinery at the service of companies and dedicated to scientific research, scale-up experiments and development of new processes and high value products from lignocellulosic and fermentable biomass, both residual and cultivated.
Founded in 2007 NATRUE AISBL is a Brussels-based international non-profit association operating to protect and promote natural and organic cosmetics worldwide. NATRUE is listed on the EU transparency register under the identification number: 75060586073-86. NATRUE’s activities can be grouped into three main areas: Advocacy: aimed at ensuring appropriate legislation for the sector; Label: in the lack of an official regulatory definition for a natural or organic cosmetic, the voluntary NATRUE standard sets verifiable criteria for products to offer consumers a visible guarantee via the NATRUE seal; Research: addressing the challenges and opportunities in the sector including raw materials, packaging and packaging materials. NATRUE is supported by more than 70 members from nearly 30 countries worldwide, and for consumers the number of certified products using the NATRUE Label currently exceed 5000 from nearly 250 international brands.
The CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) is Spain’s largest public research institution, and ranks third among Europe’s largest research organization. CSIC supports research and training across a wide range of knowledge, from the most basic or fundamental aspects of science to the most complex technological developments; from human and social sciences to food science and technology. The Group for Energy and Sustainable Chemistry from the ‘Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica’ (ICP) of CSIC is located in Madrid. Group research lines are directly related to the development of novel catalytic processes, with strong emphasis on the efficient use of raw materials and energy, as well as on the minimal generation of unwanted by-products. It has a long experience in the field of applied and basic catalysis (heterogeneous, homogeneous, electrocatalysis and photocatalysis) and catalytic process for clean energy and sustainable chemistry. CSIC is the partner in the project in charge of designing and building a demo plant for bio-ethylene production from bio-ethanol. The pilot plant will produce ethylene with a goal to validate that the produced ethanol is suitable for use as ripening gas in post-harvest fruit chambers, and evaluate as sustainable ethylene derivative chemicals.
IRIS was established in 2007 and currently employs 60+ staff with a turnover of > €5 M. The company is an advanced engineering company that specialises in process monitoring, control and optimisation. IRIS develop and integrate turnkey advanced solutions based on: NIR chemical monitoring (patent-pending novel handheld device and in-line solutions); hyperspectral imaging solutions for foreign body detection and chemical composition analysis; data management and embedded Artificial Intelligence solutions, e.g. data mining (including of big production data) to develop predictive models for decision support and to automatise process optimisation. As an enabler for its monitoring solutions, as well as for wider digital transformation in industry, it develop and deploy Industrial SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) solutions and IT platforms for numerous industry applications. IRIS provides a balanced combination of state-of-the-art online analysers and the engineering services for rationally integrating them in between the production line and the factory information system. IRIS also provides digitisation solutions for supporting the use of novel processing and circular economy shift in the industry of the future.
Leygatech is a French blown film manufacturer company employing 175 peoples with annual turnover of 68M€ and a production capacity of 30,000 tons of plastic films. The production is mainly dedicated to the primary food packaging and pharmaceutical packaging. Leygatech is an independent company leader in the coextrusion of barrier blown films for packaging market, with a high expertise in various resins. Leygatech has also an expertise in biodegradable and biobased films extrusion since years. Leygatech will be the industrial partner processing the PHA resin in blown film and in bags if needed. It has built its excellent technical knowledges in the development of multi-layer barriers film thanks to the 23 blown film lines from 1 to 7 layers. The company is extremely proud of its research and development activities and the turnover is directly linked to the investments performed in R&D. Leygatech considers as strength to keep a high degree of innovation to bring new products to the market place in this competitive sector. Leygatech knows well the market and the customer of the biodegradable / biobased films and will be able to introduce the new technology to the market through its sales and technical team.
ΕΤΑΜ S.A. is a development planning and business consulting company, founded in 1993 and based in Heraklion, Greece. Currently, ETAM employs a multidisciplinary team of 18 managers, senior consultants and consultants, all experts of high academic education. The company is certified with ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 and is a full member of the Hellenic Association of Management Consulting Firms (member of the European Federation of Management Consultancies Associations). With its long listed track record (over of 600 projects since 1993) ETAM is specialized in a variety of fields such us Market Analysis, Business Planning, Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation, Cross-border and Transnational Cooperation, Rural Development, Environmental Management, Feasibility Studies and Field Research. For more than 25 years ΕΤΑΜ has been providing high-quality studies and consulting services for companies, agencies and organizations. Armed with many years of market presence, high scientific expertise and a skilled and experienced workforce, has succeeded in becoming one of the largest consulting firms in the Hellenic periphery. With strict consistency and professionalism, ETAM provides a wide range of consultancy services for all types of business ventures, research and development initiatives.