Biome Technologies awarded further funding to scale PDCA production and applications
Type of post: FLASH NEWS.
- Biome Technologies, the parent company of Biome Bioplastics, has received further
funding from UK Government as part of the 6 M£ programme that the company has led
over the last five years to bring new biobased and biodegradable polymers to
market using industrial biotechnology techniques.
- The new two-year, 0.8 M£ project, in
collaboration with the University of Nottingham, is aimed at using microorganisms
to produce 2,5-pyridinedicarboxylic acid (PDCA) at pilot scale.
- This biobased building block will be used in
the production of compostable and recyclable polymers suitable for flexible
packaging applications. The resulting products will then be tested by a leading
UK brand.
Press release: “Biome
Technologies awarded further funding to scale solutions to plastic waste”, 6/12/2018.
Figure 1. Biome Technologies awarded further
funding to scale PDCA production and applications