New polymerisation reactor system strengthens scale-up of novel bioplastic polymers

19 June 2019
New polymerisation reactor system strengthens scale-up of novel bioplastic polymers

Biome Bioplastics and the Biorenewables Development Centre (BDC) have partnered with the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence at the University of York to develop and install a new specialist polymerisation reactor. The new reactor, partly funded by the University of York’s Higher Education Innovation Fund, will be key in helping us further scale-up our growing portfolio of novel bioplastics.

For the last three years, we’ve been leading a translational biotechnology research and development project with the University of York’s Biology and Chemistry departments and the BDC, with the support of Innovate UK. This successful project has led to the creation and evaluation of a family of novel, high-functional and biodegradable bioplastics.

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The new specialist polymerisation reactor will enable the scale-up of the manufacturing process to produce tens of kilograms of these new bioplastics for further technical and commercial evaluation.

Krisztina Kovacs-Schreiner, Biome Bioplastics’ Business Development Manager, commented:

This investment is an important next step for our research and development work. We are delighted to be extending our work with the BDC and wider University of York team. We have achieved very encouraging results by working collaboratively with the university’s professional and flexible team over the last few years and we look forward to continuing to work together to bring these materials towards commercialisation.

You can read the full press release here.