WoodZymes
Extremozymes for wood based building blocks: From pulp mill to board and insulation products
Project details
- Type of project
- Research & Innovation Action
- Project focus
- Bio-based polymers & plastics
- Feedstock origin
- Forestry waste
- Feedstock type
- Lignin & wood residues
- Project period
- 1 June 2018 - 30 November 2021
- Status
- Completed
- CBE JU Contribution
- € 3 253 873,75
- Call identifier
- H2020-BBI-JTI-2017
Summary
Many wood processing techniques require extreme conditions of heat and alkalinity. WoodZymes seeks to develop extremozymes (enzymes that can function under extreme environments) and extremozyme‐based processes that will allow underutilised lignin and hemicellulose fractions of kraft pulp mills to be valorised. This will produce high‐value bio‐based compounds to be used as bio-equivalents of existing petroleum-based chemical building blocks and precursors.
In doing so, they will create substitutive components (lignin-based phenolic resins and polyols) for the manufacture of medium-density fibreboards (MDF) and polyurethane (PU) insulation foams, potentially reducing or avoiding the use of toxic ingredients, whereas the sugar-derived compounds will be used as fibre bonding enhancers in papermaking.
WoodZymes illustrates the potential of extremozymes in the global bio-based economy, contributing to the sustainability and competitiveness of cellulose and fibreboard and polyurethane manufacture.
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Project coordination
- AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS MADRID, Spain
Consortium
- RAIZ - INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACAO DAFLORESTA E PAPEL AVEIRO EIXO, Portugal
- CENTRE TECHNIQUE DE L INDUSTRIE DESPAPIERS CARTONS ET CELLULOSES Gieres, France
- INSTITUT TECHNOLOGIQUE FCBA (FORETCELLULOSE BOIS-CONSTRUCTION AMEUBLEMENT) CHAMPS SUR MARNE, France
- METGEN OY Kaarina, Finland
- FIBRE EXCELLENCE SAINT-GAUDENS SAS Saint-Gaudens, France
- THE NAVIGATOR COMPANY SA Setubal Sado, Portugal
- FINSA FRANCE SAS MORCENX, France
- SOPREMA STRASBOURG, France
