Latest tranche of projects spring into action

Spring got underway in the Projects team with six new Feasibility projects awarded across a wide range of sectors. Converting sewage sludge into biochar are Scottish Water Horizons with the University of Highlands and Islands and new members AL-2 Teknik while Bio-Sep are looking at lignin biomass for a source of resins and films with Glasgow University. ScotBio will be working with Queen Margaret University to study functional proteins and Grampian Growers are working with Robert Gordon University on co-products from potato farming. Looking further at food waste, C-Source renewables have partnered with Edinburgh University to produce chemicals from bread and Intelligent Growth Solutions and Cambond are working with SRUC on bioresins in vertical farming. We are looking forward to reporting on the outcomes of these projects as they conclude.

In March we travelled to Harrogate to the Biomass Biorefinery Network’s annual conference. The network is free to join and is a fantastic way to connect to industry and academia interested in displacing petrochemicals with products derived from biomass. We loved connecting with colleagues at the BDC in York and with the wider UK academic community. Carbon accountancy was a strong theme this year and we are pleased to see more of our projects incorporating this type of accounting alongside technoeconomic analyses when developing their new products and services.

IBioIC enjoy working with our strategic partners to deliver project funding to the community. We are pleased to be working with SULSA and CENSIS on a new round of Innovation Seed Funding, which closes on the 22nd May. We are also thrilled to be supporting further prizes with Scottish EDGE and Converge. The winner of the IBioIC Scottish EDGE award will be announced at the awards ceremony on the 25th May and we look forward to working with the winners to support their business.