WOODCELL
WOOD RESIDUES DERIVED MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE FOR SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS
Project details
- Type of project
- Innovation Action – Flagship
- Project focus
- Bio-based polymers & plastics
- Feedstock origin
- Forestry waste
- Feedstock type
- Lignin & wood residues
- Project period
- 1 June 2024 - 31 May 2029
- Status
- In progress
- CBE JU Contribution
- € 16 639 435,85
- Call identifier
- HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023
Summary
Finding viable alternatives to fossil-based materials in the chemical and material industries is challenging due to price limitations and the performance of available bio-based products. It is here that cellulose-based materials from woody biomass can make a difference, as they are one of the most promising pathways to replace global dependence on fossil-based chemicals, given their carbon neutral, sustainable, recyclable, and non-toxic characteristics.
Specialty cellulose materials have been used as strength additives and rheology modifiers in a range of products; however, the technological process is energy- and chemical-intensive.
WOODCELL aims to enable the production of micro-scale specialty Microcrystalline Cellulose (MCC) by building on Fibenol’s unique SWEETWOODS production. This process makes use of hardwood residues to produce lignin and wood sugars for novel functional bio-based primary raw materials to be used in the materials and chemical industry.
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Project coordination
- FIBENOL IMAVERE OU TALLINN, Estonia
Consortium
- RISE RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF SWEDEN AB Boras, Sweden
- LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Esch Sur Alzette, Luxembourg
- COATEX SAS Genay, France
- SKELETON TECHNOLOGIES OY VANTAA, Finland
- Foreko OÜ TALLINN, Estonia
Partners
- ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE LAUSANNE, Switzerland
- DS Smith Paper Limited London, United Kingdom
- HAUTE ECOLE SPECIALISEE DE SUISSE OCCIDENTALE Delemont, Switzerland
