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Finnish bioeconomy takes another step forward

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Alexander Stubb, prime minister of Finland

The Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy is implementing the Government’s bioeconomy, cleantech, and digitalisation strategy for accelerating new areas for growth. In June 2014 an international competition was launched as part of the bioeconomy strategy to expedite the commercialisation of bioeconomy innovations and the emergence of new biorefineries in Finland.

Spinnova Ltd. has won the international biorefinery competition with its new textile fibre production technology. Two other proposals to receive awards in the competition are Biovakka Suomi’s concept for combining the production of biogas, nutrients, and transport fuel, and a proposal by the  that incorporates novel Finnish technology for the production of new biomaterials and biochemicals.

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GFBiochemicals is starting commercialization of its biobased levulinic acid

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Royal Palace of Caserta

Despite the lack of a National strategy, the Italian bioeconomy is a reality. Italian biobased chemicals company GFBiochemicals is starting commercialization of its levulinic acid thanks to its proprietary breakthrough technology. Commercial-scale production will start in Summer 2015 in Caserta, Italy plant, close to Naples.

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The bioeconomy speaks Dutch: today starts in Amsterdam the World Bio Markets

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Dam Square in Amsterdam

Today starts in Amsterdam the 10th annual World Bio Markets, an event which will focus on three bioeconomy core topics: biofuels, bio-based chemicals and feedstock supply, security and selection.

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EFIB 2015 returns to Brussels. The organisers announce call for papers

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Square Cube in Brussels

EFIB returns to Brussels. From 27 to 29 October the European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology and the Biobased Economy (EFIB)  returns to Europe’s capital, where it was first launched 7 years ago, taking place at the Square, Brussels meeting center. Since then, the event has grown tenfold in size but remains true to its goal of providing the premier meeting place for business and policy throughout the biobased value chain.

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Bio-on and Eridania Sadam develop together bio-based levulinic acid

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Marco Astorri, bio-on Ceo

The Italian bioeconomy is growing. Bio-on, an innovative industrial biotech company, and Eridania Sadam, sub-holding of the agro-food sector owned by the Maccaferri Group of Bologna, will work together on defining and optimising the production of levulinic acid, a key molecule for the sustainable and low-impact future of the chemical industry. Already available on the international market, but in insufficient quantities, levulinic acid is currently obtained from industrial processes with an environmental impact that fails to meet European standards. 

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Still together for the bioeconomy revolution

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Former EU Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn speaks to delegates during the Bioeconomy conference in Dublin on February 14, 2013.

Dear Readers,

let me talk about us, to share with you an acknowledgment that we are very pleased to receive. Our blog is considered a model to follow in a scientific paper entitled “Gearing Modeling of Regional Eco-Bio-Logistic Components in Bioeconomic Management, Using Arena Simulation Software”, written by Claudiu Pîrnău, a researcher of the University of Sibiu (Romania), and presented last year at the Scientific Papers International Conference on Knowledge Society.

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The European Biopreferred is coming

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European Parliament, Brussels

Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research investigates standards for biobased products as part of the Open-Bio project commissioned by the EU. There is some ambiguity concerning bio-based products which frequently have different functional properties and end-of-life options from petroleum-based products. To develop and improve these standards, however, misconceptions will first have to be identified and eliminated. Clear standards will help to remove barriers to the introduction of bio-based products on the market.

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British Synthace closes a £2.2 million funding round

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Investment funds are looking with more attention to the bioeconomy. British bioengineering firm Synthace has closed a £2.2 million funding round with new investors SOSventures, Bioeconomy Capital and Rainbow Seed Fund joining Sofinnova Partners and other existing investors.

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Global Bioenergies reaches the first milestone of the BioMA+ project

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Marc Delcourt, co-founder and CEO of Global Bioenergies

French Global Bioenergies, one of the few companies worldwide, and the only one in Europe, that is developing a process to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation, announces having reached the first milestone of the BioMA+ project which is financed by the French “Investissements d’Avenir” State program. The project aims at developing a renewable value chain to methacrylic acid, a key constituent of acrylic paints. Achieving this first milestone result unlocks a €1.7 million payment. 

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Evonik achieves a breakthrough in the biotechnological production of amino acids based on fermentation

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Evonik is headquartered in Essen

Using creativity and unconventional ideas, researchers and engineers at Evonik, one of the world leaders in specialty chemicals, have achieved a significant breakthrough in the biotechnological production of amino acids based on fermentation. They integrated the separating methods of chromatography and reverse osmosis and an online analytical method based on spectroscopy—all of which tend to be used in other industry sectors—in a biotechnological process. This created an outcome experts had previously considered nearly impossible. The researchers’ objective was to achieve optimal separation of the desired amino acid from a fermentation broth.

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