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Turning Trash into Treasure: How Sawdust and Organic Waste Could Change the Game

Did you know that sawdust from wood processing and organic waste from household could become the secret ingredients for making high-value chemicals? The LUCRA project is on a mission to transform these streams into something much more valuable than just firewood or landfill fodder. The LUCRA Project: Giving Waste a Second Life The LUCRA project,…

33rd European Biomass Conference & Exhibition

Alternative feedstock for biobased plastics: Bridging the gap between research and the market, November 2024

At the workshop held on 16 October 2024 at European Bioplastics in Brussels, European Bioplastics discussed the concepts of alternative feedstock with representatives of outstanding research and innovation projects and how biowaste can be successfully used for bioplastics production. In the past years, several projects funded by the Horizon Programme for Research and Innovation and the…

LUCRA General Assembly Meeting in Birmingham, UK

Birmingham, UK – January 15-16, 2025 – In the mid of January 2025, the LUCRA project partners gathered in Birmingham for their fourth consortium meeting at the Birmingham Energy Innovation Centre (BEIC). The meeting served as a platform to update partners on the progress of the different work packages and to discuss the next steps.…

LUCRA at Jiaotong University, China

Korneel Rabaey (Ghent University) was invited to present the concept of electrochemical control of bioreactors and simultaneous product extraction during a workshop at Xi’an Jiaotong University on November 6th. The LUCRA approach was highlighted as one of the examples, enabling polymer grade production of succinic acid from biomass.

1st LUCRA Newsletter

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EUBP Talk: Alternative feedstock series wrap

How can we include alternative feedstocks in a coherent European framework for biobased plastics? Today, bioplastics are mostly made of carbohydrate-rich plants, such as corn or sugar cane, so-called food crops or agro-based feedstock. Agro feedstock is currently the most efficient to produce bioplastics, as it requires the least amount of land to grow and produces…

EUBP Talk #4: Transforming organic waste into bio-succinic acid on a pre-industrial scale

The fourth EUBP Talk will host Tanja Meyer from the Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (BBEPP) who will cover the topic “Transforming organic waste into bio-succinic acid on a pre-industrial scale”. It will take place on 10 July 2024. Each year, millions of tonnes of bio-waste, particularly urban organic food waste, inundate European waste management…

LUCRA General Assembly meeting in Turku, Finland

Turku, Finland – July 3, 2024 – At the beginning of July, the LUCRA project partners gathered in Turku for their third consortium meeting, hosted by project partner Boreal Bioproducts (Montinutra Ltd). The meeting served as a platform to update partners on the progress of the different work packages and to discuss the next steps.…