Boost your sustainability thanks to bio-based products

Discover how European SMEs tackled the challenge replacing fossil-based product/technologies by bio-based solutions to boost their sustainability and competitiveness.

Pitching companies:

• Wax solutions: Innovative and natural bio-based barrier coatings for paper and packaging industry replacing plastics replacing fossil-based solutions.

• Nature compounds: Bio-based and biologically degradable material (compostable, heat-resistant and free from BPA and PFAS) suitable for thermoformed films (food-contact approved).

• Paneco: Specific Bio-based solutions, additives and nutrients, alternatives to chemicals (e.g. fertilisers) to reduce pollutants based on functional and fully sustainable approach.

• Vitality Hemp:  Carbon neutral, natural, non-toxic and effective hemp based products with cosmetics, home, furniture and garden uses.

• Plinius Labs:  Valorisation of biomass as a material or ingredient to challenge petroleum-based counterparts. At the interface of plant materials and chemistry, they can upgrade side streams in various segments to high premium ingredients and materials for pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food and technology.

• Lignopure: Lignin’s natural mechanical properties can enhance novel materials as well as increasing their sustainability factor such as cosmetics ingredients, food and nutraceuticals.

• La Tannerie végétale: Development of innovative, eco-friendly, and sustainable materials with position as a leader of change by providing alternatives to environmentally harmful flexible materials as leather and artificial leather.

• SQIM: an innovation-driven biotech and biomaterials company: they create sustainable mycelium-based materials for fashion and interior design. They transform organic residues into high-performance products, helping industries embrace circular and eco-friendly solutions.