1. BIO-BASED INDUSTRIES SUCCESS STORIES
What are the Bio-Based Industries Success Stories?
A showcase of BIC industry member investments in Europe
Why?
Shine a spotlight on BIC members harnessing power of renewables to transition to a post-petroleum society
Highlight role played by BIC members in accelerating innovation and market uptake of bio-based products in Europe
Raise awareness of the impact of investments for the bioeconomy
Provide examples of the leveraging effect of the BBI JU public-private partnership

2. FIRST2RUN – INTEGRATED BIOREFINERY FOR DRY CROPS
Flagship demonstration of integrated biorefinery
Feedstock: cardoon (up to 3.5 kha) - large-scale cultivation through the involvement of local farmers
Products: bio-based azelaic and pelargonic acid
Impact/benefits:
Cascading use of biomass
Reduction in thermal and electric energy consumption of chemical processes
BIC members:
NOVAMONT
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
PROJECT DETAILS
Type of project: BBI-Flagship
Start date: July 2015
Duration: 4 years
Total cost: €25 million
Industry investment: €8 million
Headquarters: Novara, Italy
Website:
PROJECT PARTNERS

3. VALCHEM – CHEMICAL BUILDING BLOCKS FROM WOOD
Develop a sustainable and integrated process to convert wood into useful end products.
Feedstock: wood
Products: wood-based chemicals with a value two to six times higher than traditional products
Impact/benefits:
Job creation and increased regional development
BIC members:
UPM
METabolic Explorer
PROJECT DETAILS
Type of project: BBI-Demo
Start date: January 2015
Duration: 4 years
Total cost: €18.5 million
Industry investment: €5.4 million
Headquarters: Augsburg, Germany
Website:
PROJECT PARTNERS

4. THE NEXT-GENERATION BIOPRODUCT MILL
Build world’s first next-generation bioproduct mill
Feedstock: wood
Products: broad range of bio-based products, manufactured by a unique ecosystem of companies
Impact/benefits:
Mill will create 2,500 jobs across the value chain
€0.5 billion increase in annual value of Finnish exports
BIC member
Metsä Fibre
PROJECT DETAILS
Type of project: Company initiative
Start date: May 2015
Duration: 3.5 years
Total investment: €1.2 billion
Headquarters: Äänekoski, Finland
Website:

5. NEWFERT – NUTRIENT RECOVERY FROM BIOWASTE
BBI-RIA: Use biowaste as a secondary raw material in cost-effective, eco-friendly and advanced fertilisers
Feedstock: nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus (NPK) recovered from biowaste
Products: fertilisers
Impact/benefits:
Reduced resource depletion and fertiliser production from petrochemicals
Improved waste management
BIC member:
Universidad de León
PROJECT DETAILS
Type of project: BBI-RIA
Start date: November 2015
Duration: 4 years
Total cost: €2.4 million
Industry investment: €1.2 million
Headquarters: Madrid, Spain
Website:
PROJECT PARTNERS

6. LEVULINIC ACID PRODUCTION
Produce levulinic acid at commercial scale directly from biomass
Feedstock-flexible process which allows for wide range of downstream transformations.
Products: 10 kta of levulinic acid, 2 kta of formic acid
Benefits:
New value chains centred on levulinic acid
600 direct and indirect jobs and €40 million injected into the economy
BIC member:
GFBiochemicals
PROJECT DETAILS
Type of project: Company initiative
Start date: 2015
Total investment: €30 million
Headquarters: Caserta, Italy
Website: