Biobased Projects
On this webpage you find our current projects in the field of sustainable materials, bio-based chemicals and biorefinery. In the menu, completed projects from the past three years have been archived. Want to more about our projects and possibilities?
Ongoing Circulair & Biobased projects
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Market Study PHA Materials – Roadmap to applications
- This study aims to pinpoint the market opportunities for PHA’s by analyzing the production technology, types of feedstocks used, the material... -
100% Biobased asfalt binder
- Bitumen is the fossil binder in asphalt. For the future, bitumen shortage and quality changes are expected and it is not a sustainable product. The... -
Models of the recycling chain for Dutch plastic packaging
- In the past few years, Wageningen Food & Biobased Research has carried out several projects to analyse material flows. The emphasis was on plastic... -
Using electrons to add value to levulinic acid
- Wageningen Food & Biobased Research coordinates the new TKI project LEVEL, which focusses on the electrochemical conversion of bio-based levulinic... -
Recycled PET in new bottles
- Ulphard Thoden van Velzen, Fresia Alvarado Chacon, and Marieke Brouwer from Wageningen Food & Biobased Research investigated the influence of the... -
CHAMPION – Developing new circular materials from safe bio-based building blocks
- The Bio-based Industries (BBI) project CHAMPION aims to develop new, safe, bio-based circular performance materials with well-defined end-of-life...
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EU-Cofin 2018 Lignocost
Lignin is a large side product from the pulp and paper industry and is released during conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into bioethanol or... -
Pulp2Value: European project realises new value chains for sugar beet
Wageningen Food & Biobased Research is launching a large-scale European project in collaboration with Cosun (coordinating partner) and ten... -
Biorefinery for raw material and flexibility AF-SIP-14001
TNO and Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research are forming a cooperative framework in the area of food, nutrition and bio-based research to create... -
PEFPACK – Developing new food and beverage packaging based on PEF
Leading plastic packaging designer and manufacturer Plastipak has joined the PEFPACK project which seeks to develop new food and beverage packaging... -
PANACEA: network for use of non-food crops in European biobased economy
The current demand for biobased raw materials from non-food crops in Europe is much larger than the availability, impeding growth of the biobased...