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Metsä Group’s Kuura textile fibre shows competitive greenhouse gas emission level

24 February 202521 February 2025Il BioeconomistaLeave a comment

Metsa Spring’s team. Source: Metsa Group

Metsä Group has completed a new Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of its Kuura textile fibre. The assessment shows that Kuura’s global warming potential (GWP100, fossil) score is less than one-third of the next best option, viscose. The Kuura project is currently in a demonstration phase. The new textile fibre is being developed by Metsä Group’s innovation company Metsä Spring. The LCA was made by Etteplan. The LCA study and comparison to alternative cellulosic fibres were critically reviewed by RISE Research Institutes of Sweden.

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An interview with Dirk Carrez, Executive Director of BIC (Biobased Industries Consortium).

17 February 202514 February 2025Il BioeconomistaLeave a comment

“Currently, there are policy frameworks for food, feed and bioenergy, but not for bio-based chemicals and derived materials. This gap puts the bio-based chemicals and derived materials sector at a disadvantage, and has also an impact on investments in Europe.”. Dirk Carrez, executive director of BIC (Biobased Industries Consortium) talks to Il Bioeconomista.

Interview by Mario Bonaccorso

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Avantium and Amcor Rigid Packaging partner to advance more sustainable packaging with plant-based polymer releaf

13 February 202512 February 2025Il BioeconomistaLeave a comment

CEO Tom Van Aken and Her Majesty Queen Maxima. Source: Avantium

Avantium N.V., a leading company in renewable and circular polymer materials, signed a joint development agreement with Amcor Rigid Packaging USA, a leader in responsible packaging solutions. This partnership aims to explore the use of Avantium’s plant-based polymer PEF – branded as releaf^® – in rigid containers for various products, including food, beverage, pharmaceutical, medical, home, and personal care.

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An exclusive interview with Frederic Van Gansberghe, CEO Futerro. The Most Innovative Bioeconomy CEO 2024

6 February 20256 February 2025Il BioeconomistaLeave a comment

“For me and Futerro, innovation in the bioeconomy is all about reinvention and transition. It’s about finding alternative solutions that weave sustainability, circularity, and ecological resilience into the very core of what we do.” To say it – in this exclusive interview with Il Bioeconomista – is Frederic Van Gansberghe, CEO of Futerro and the Most Innovative Bioeconomy CEO 2024.

According to him, “there is a clear gap between Europe’s ambitions and reality. Many industrial players usually ask to reduce the number of regulations and directives; in my case, I would request to increase their quality”

Interview by Mario Bonaccorso

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Ecoplanta receives approval: a major step forward with Enerkem’s waste-to-methanol technology

3 February 20251 February 2025Il BioeconomistaLeave a comment

The Repsol’s Board of Directors has officially approved the Final Investment Decision (FID) for the Ecoplanta project, marking a significant milestone in the drive for the supply of sustainable fuel and product.

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The EU Commission presented the Competitiveness Compass. “We must fix our weaknesses”, said President Ursula von der Leyen

30 January 202529 January 2025Il BioeconomistaLeave a comment

Berlaymont, European Commission’s Headquarter in Brussels

Yesterday, the EU Commission presented the Competitiveness Compass, the first major initiative of this mandate providing a strategic and clear framework to steer the Commission’s work. The Compass sets a path for Europe to become the place where future technologies, services, and clean products are invented, manufactured, and put on the market, while being the first continent to become climate neutral.

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Enilive begins SAF production at its plant in Gela (Sicily), capable of meeting one third of Europe’s demand

24 January 202523 January 2025Il BioeconomistaLeave a comment

Enilive commissioned its first plant to produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) at the Gela biorefinery, in Sicily. Production has started at the plant, which has a capacity of 400,000 tonnes per year, representing almost a third of the expected European SAF demand in 2025 (Source: Wood Mackanzie), following the implementation of the ReFuelEU Aviation regulation.

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EIT opened its call to build a new sustainable innovation partnership to strengthen Europe’s water, marine and maritime sectors

20 January 202519 January 2025Il BioeconomistaLeave a comment

The European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) opened its call to build a new sustainable innovation partnership to strengthen Europe’s water, marine and maritime sectors and ecosystems. The Call for Proposals invites consortia of  organisations and industry leaders bringing together water-related education, research and business to put forward their vision and strategy for EIT Water. The EIT is an integral part of Horizon Europe, the EU’s research and innovation framework programme.

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Neste and Bayer to collaborate on developing novel vegetable oils from regenerative agriculture concepts

9 January 20258 January 2025Il BioeconomistaLeave a comment

Neste and Bayer, a global enterprise with core competencies in the life science fields of health care and agriculture, signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at developing a winter canola ecosystem in the U.S, including identifying partners and developing the value chain together, and scaling winter canola production as a raw material for renewable products.

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Aramco, TotalEnergies and Saudi Investment Recycling Company (SIRC) assess the development of a sustainable aviation fuels unit

30 December 202428 December 2024Il BioeconomistaLeave a comment

Aramco, TotalEnergies, and Saudi Investment Recycling Company (SIRC), the major player which collects and valorizes organic materials into sustainable products in Saudi Arabia, signed a Joint Development and Cost Sharing Agreement (JDCSA) to assess the development of a sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) production unit in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This signature was done on the occasion of the visit of the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and in the presence of His Royal Highness Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud, Saudi Minister of Energy,

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