BIONEER: Scaled-Up Production Of Next-Generation Carbohydrate-Derived Building Blocks To Enhance The Competitiveness Of A Sustainable European Chemicals Industry

The CBE JU innovation project BIONEER officially started on June 1st, 2024, and over its 48-month project period, it will demonstrate and advance the potential of various lignocellulosic biomass carbohydrate-derived components to replace fossil-based functional building blocks in the furniture coatings and personal care sectors. The project aims to establish their route to market by showcasing their application potential.

BIONEER focuses on utilizing low-cost, sustainably sourced lignocellulosic biomass as feedstock to produce novel platform chemicals for challenging industrial sectors to decarbonize, such as liquid plastics used in personal care and coatings. The project moves beyond first-generation carbohydrate-derived chemicals, leveraging the biotechnology, biochemistry, chemistry, and process expertise of the consortium to scale up the production of a range of novel monomeric and polymeric building blocks that allow for important additional functionalities to be conferred to biobased chemicals.

Discover more by reading the project's first press release!