As part of the TechTour Circular 2025 event, held in Ghent, Belgium from April 23–24, participants were invited to take part in a guided tour of the Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (BBEPP) – one of Europe’s leading open-access pilot facilities for scaling up biobased processes. Boreal Bioproducts (Montinutra Ltd), key partner in the LUCRA project, joined the BBEPP tour…

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.

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…

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…

The 8th IWA Young Water Professionals BeNeLux conference will take place in Antwerp July 8-10 2024. Set in the historical buildings of the University of Antwerp, the conference brings together young researchers and professionals within the water world. LUCRA Contribution Session 8: Membrane technology and Filtration Processes.09.07.2024, 10:50 am, Room S.C.002

32nd European Biomass Conference & Exhibition The Leading Platform for Global Biomass Innovation The series of these conferences has been organized and established by the European Commission 1980 (Brighton, UK). The conference started as a purely scientific event. Over the years as biomass use as feedstock for bioenergy and fuels increased steadily the industrial aspect…

You are invited to join a sparkly event with two joined conferences dealing with water resource recovery from wastewater treatment (International Conference on Wider-Uptake of Water Resource Recovery from Wastewater Treatment – ICWRR 2024) and membrane technologies for water and wastewater treatment (7th IWA Regional Membrane Technology Conference – IWA-RMTC 2024). The two conferences are…

On 13 and 14 May, COST and the EU’s Circular Bio-Based Europe Joint Undertaking will host this workshop, putting the spotlight on two main contemporary challenges: limiting the use of fossil resources and ensuring the availability of circular, sustainable materials and resources. This event invites participants to reflect and exchange on main questions, challenges and…

IBioIC’s 10th Anniversary Conference takes inspiration from the idea of transformation. The conference will reflect on the transformation of the IB sphere over the past ten years, celebrate key success stories so far, and look to the next ten years to identify what transformations will, and need to, happen across technology, policy, infrastructure, and research.…