Funding from IBioIC’s Feasibility Fund enabled Grampian Growers to work with Professor Giovanna Bermano from Robert Gordon University and Dr Gordon McDougall of The James Hutton Institute to assess the feasibility of valorising potato haulms as feedstocks for ingredients and high value products for global markets.
Read MoreFunding from IBioIC’s Feasibility Fund enabled C-Source Renewables and Stephen Wallace from the University of Edinburgh to work together to assess the potential for bread and potato waste generated from food waste to be used as a viable glucose replacement for the bioproduction of three chemicals used to make valuable industrial products which are currently manufactured from diminishing fossil resources.
Read MoreLignin is a material obtained from woody biomass, such as forestry waste suitable for a range of applications. Sonichem wanted to investigate the feasibility of using their natural lignin in the production of advanced, bio-based and sustainable films and resins in packaging and composite manufacturing.
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