Ghent, Belgium -- A new strategic partnership between Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant and nova-Institute is ready to offer industrial customers interested in biobased products a full service, from an original idea to the market.
Bio Base and nova say this unique offer for development and scale-up of biobased products and processes by the Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant is complemented by economic/environmental analysis of novel processes by nova.
"Development of products from sustainable resources and processes too often fails to step out of the research laboratories," say the companies.
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But now, companies and research institutes can rely on the expertise of the two partners in the new initiative for: choice of feedstock; life cycle analysis of the novel product; marketing strategy; development of a scalable process; production of sample material for application testing; and custom manufacturing of the first tonnes of product for the market.
Managing director of nova-Institute Michael Carus said: "Together we can support biobased innovation from the lab scale to commercial scale and markets. Techno-economic and environmental evaluations are an invaluable tool to steer pilot plant processing and optimizations." See www.nova-institute.eu for more,.
For Bio-Base, managing director Wim Soetaert added: "By joining forces with the nova-Institute, our extensive expertise in bioprocessing is now complemented with techno-economic and environmental analysis. That way, we can better serve our customers and bring open innovation into practice." See more at www.bbeu.org
