The third and final VEHICLE Review Meeting was organized on June 20th, 2023, in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. Click the button on the right for more details.
VEHICLE project ended on April 30th, 2023. Click the button on the right to read about the project's impact and outcomes, as well as reflections of the project partners on the project coming to its end.
VEHICLE Consortium meetings:
Last VEHICLE Consortium Meeting in Novara, Italy in April, 2023 (M48)
VEHICLE Consortium meets in Vic, Spain, at the end of 2022 (M43)
June, 2023
Final updates from the VEHICLE consortium:
Avantium have published a video on PET made from plantMEG™. In the video you will see a practical example on how Avantium produced PET by using its Ray technology plantMEG™- click here to view the video.
VEHICLE project was very honoured to be included in the Industry Track session "Exploiting lignocellulosic biomass to develop innovative and more sustanable high-added value biobased products and materials" together with other CBE JU projects at the 31st European Biomass Conference & Exhibition EUBCE 2023 on June 6th, 2023 in Bologna, Italy. The session was chaired by Mr. Simone Maccaferri from the CBE JU - click here for the full program of the Industry Track at EUBCE 2023. Mr. Petri Oinonen, Founder and CEO at Ecohelix, was the representative of VEHICLE at the conference. You can read more about the conference visit via Ecohelix homepage - click here.
Ecohelix planning to build advanced production facility entirely from wood - click here for the full story
Avantium and Kvadrat sign offtake agreement for the development of PEF for
interior textiles - click here for the press release
Avantium and Origin Materials to Accelerate the Mass Production of FDCA and PEF for Advanced Chemicals and Plastics - click here for the press release
July, 2022
Recent updates from the VEHICLE consortium:
Avantium announces an off-take agreement with Carlsberg Group - click here for more information
Avantium's VP Development Mr. Ed de Jong presented higlights from VEHICLE during his presentation at CBPM Symposium 2022 at Wageningen, NED - click here for more information
Kemira is present at the EWLP 2022 conference in Gothenburg, SWE (June 28th - July 1st) with an oral presentation titled "Cellulose surface modification by lignin-carbohydrate polymers" - click here for more information
May, 2022
Recent updates from the VEHICLE consortium:
On April 11th-12th 2022 the first hybrid VEHICLE consortium meeting (M36), after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe in March 2020, was successfully arranged in Espoo, Finland and hosted by the Spinverse team.
Avantium CTO Gert-Jan Gruter gives an oral presentation on May 11th in the "Woody biomass to-bio-based packaging session" of the Industry Track of EUBCE 2022 - European Biomass Conference & Exhibition - click here for more information
New trademark for Ecohelix published: WOODMER polymers - click here to access the WOODMER products
Kemira team successfully presented the presentation "Lignin-carbohydrate complex as biobased polymer additive for paperboard applications" during ACS Spring 2022 virtual conference in March 20-24, 2022. Also, the abstract "Cellulose surface modification by lignin-carbohydrate polymers" submitted for the EWLP conference in Gothenburg, Sweden on June 28th - July 1st, 2022 has been accepted for an oral presentation.
MetGen team took part in two conferences - ABLC 2022 in Washington DC, USA (March 16th-18th) and BIOKET 2022 in Lille, France (March 15th-17th).
February, 2022
Recent updates from the VEHICLE consortium:
MetGen wins the EU's 2021 Innovation Prize - click here for more information
Kemira's and Ecohelix's collaboration within VEHICLE highlighted in an insightful article published on kemira.com - click here to access the article
Peer-reviewed article "Durable Biopolymer Films From Lignin-Carbohydrate Complex Derived From a Pulp Mill Side Stream" published in Frontiers in Energy Research with contributions from Kemira and Ecohelix - click here to access the article
November 19th, 2021
Important news for the European bioeconomy:
Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) to be launched at the end of November, 2021!
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Press releases by VEHICLE partners:
Meetings, conferences & events attended by VEHICLE partners: