📦 The future of #packaging is here, and it’s bio-based.

In a recent interview with Packaging Insights, our Project Officer Bahar Koyuncu shared how 26 projects in our portfolio are redefining the entire lifecycle of packaging.

🔗 Watch the full interview ⬇️

📣 New CBE JU-funded project: GREEN will develop biodegradable #fertiliser delivery systems from agri-food waste.

With €3.3m in CBE JU funding, it aims to cut nutrient leaching by 30%, boost crop yields by 10%, and achieve 90% soil biodegradation.

🔗 Discover the project ⬇️

💶 Around €1m revenue in H1 2026, about twice the plant’s full-year 2025 total.

With €20m in CBE JU funding, AFTERBIOCHEM helped establish the AFYREN NEOXY biorefinery. Since the project ended, it has reached continuous industrial operation: https://link.europa.eu/dVJHNN

🤔 What do artichoke pesto, road asphalt and a hemp-composite loudspeaker have in common? They’re all coming to #GBS2026 with CBE JU.

🌱 Almost 30 bio-based products will be on display in Dublin on 20-21 October, including a full-sized hemp-composite electric scooter. 👀

🏭 What happens after a CBE JU-funded project ends?

Our publication Across the two valleys follows 8 completed projects: 💶 investment, 🏭 expanded capacity, 🛒 products reaching the market & 🌍 replication.

CBE JU helps #biobased innovators cross the two “valleys of death”.

📣 New CBE JU-funded project: RELEASAFE will develop bio-based, biodegradable controlled-release fertilisers. With €3.5m in CBE JU funding, it aims to cut nitrogen use by 25-30% and prevent 45,000+ tonnes of microplastics from being released each year: https://www.cbe.europa.eu/projects/releasafe

🌱 Industrial CO₂ could help produce new food ingredients and bio-based packaging.

CBE JU-funded CleanAlgae2Value uses CO₂ to grow microalgae and plans to produce tonnes of protein, starch-rich fractions and oils for 15 prototypes.

▶️ Read the latest #CBEachievements story ⬇️

🌳 29% more fines: a breakthrough in #nanocellulose production from poplar wood.
 
New research from the CBE JU-funded Bio-LUSH project reveals how mechanical and enzymatic pretreatments can transform poplar wood into high-value nanocellulose.
 
🔗 Read the #CBEresearch paper ⬇️

🏭 A new European Commission study recognises CBE JU’s central role in reducing investment risks for bio-based demonstration and flagship projects.

Our support helps bridge research and industrial production.

▶️ Read the study: https://op.europa.eu/s/Ak11

🌽 Corn husks, cleaner air and a #bioeconomy prize!

Three young Armenian scientists won the CBE JU prize at #EUCYS2026 with Airify, a biodegradable, self-cleaning air filter made from corn husk #biomass.

▶️ https://www.cbe.europa.eu/news/armenian-team-wins-cbe-ju-bioeconomy-prize-eucys-2026

On #FoodLossAndWaste Day, we’re highlighting how CBE JU projects are making better use of agri-food sidestreams.

UP4HEALTH, SUSTAINEXT & ZEST show different routes from underused biological resources to new food, feed and protein ingredients.

🔗 link.europa.eu/n9VFPV

#FLWDay

🌱 Primary producers are essential to the #bioeconomy. At #GBS2026, CBE JU, RootLinks & ReFarm will explore how they can capture more value and play a stronger role in bio-based value chains.

📅 20 Oct | Dublin
⏳ Register by 30 Sep
https://www.cbe.europa.eu/events/global-bioeconomy-summit-2026

📣 New CBE JU-funded project: IRIS will scale up #biobased #colourants for textiles from forestry and agriculture sidestreams and captured CO₂.

With €7m in CBE JU funding, it aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40–70% and improve textile recyclability to at least 80%.