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Many thanks to Fre-energy for tour of their site and talk about role of AD in food waste. We are here to discuss alternative bioplastic packaging films with key stakeholders for our #HiBarFilm Innovate UK project UK Circular Economy Plastics Network

This week we are in Uganda at the National Coffee Research Institute setting up trials of our new biobased materials showing how we can help grow coffee seedlings using our biodegradable ‘Biopots’ that won’t generate microplastics @WGInnovation NARO Uganda Bangor University

Many thanks to Haydale for hosting our Q8 HiBarFilm Innovate UK meeting. Some good progress on scale up of films with @wellsplastics and nice to see some packaging tests with Dunbia Group

Here is Jennifer our KESS 2 PhD student working her way through a series of coated papers to test their tensile strength #papertesting in our Pulp & Paper Lab! Welsh Gov Innovation UK Circular Economy Plastics Network Innovate UK Get in touch to find out more!

This was a great project- we enjoyed working with @SeaTrustWales and Macduff Shellfish

Check out our new #TRIP Innovate UK project website triptrials.co.uk with project partners OptiYield Dyson Farming and Light Science Technologies Holdings Plc. Here we are developing less intensive potatoe production techniques! #agritech

Great to help out here working in collaboration #PlantSea with @innovateUK funds

We are very excited as our new steam boiler has arrived! This 21bar boiler raises steam for all our pilot plant processes!

Morwenna and Carlo are presenting at #ecwm11 ‘Ready for another busy and inspiring day at ECWM11 in the beautiful Auditorium of S. Apollonia, Florence’

This is why it is so important to condition your wood based panel samples before testing. Read all about it Graham Ormondroyd in #WBPI wbpionline.com

Today Rob Elias and Graham Ormondroyd are at MRE come and find us to say hello!

Great to hear the updates from Remi Rasenberg at #MRE2024 in London. Nice to hear how we are helping with our pulp and paper expertise! UK Circular Economy Plastics Network Innovate UK

Yesterday we said farewell to our Director, Rob Elias, we wish him well in his new adventures with MDF recovery!!

Exciting discussions with PlasmaFresh today! Learning how the surface of paper can be modified using plasma to improve its performance as a packaging material BioComposites Centre

Today Simon Curling and PhD student Jenny Woods presented work on the use of pulp and paper at the #transFIRehub final conference #kess

Always good to present to an enthusiastic and informed audience. BioComposites Centre Bangor University

Today Morwenna Spear presented at #plasticslive2024 and talk around developing biopolymer and BioComposites.. it was great to bump into old friends and new Innovate UK

At our @Dysonfarming Research site at Nocton Lincolnshire our biodiversity experiments are underway Pictured below is one of the hoverfly attractant capsule attached to top of cane, and yellow water trap for insect recording at the bottom. The potato crop just emerging.

It’s great to see both staff and students of BC graduating today, Sean Baxter, our pulp and paper researcher and Carlo Kupfernagel (now at IHD Dresden) both graduated with their PHD’s from Bangor University

Yesterday, the final quarterly meeting of the successful PlantSea Pack project was held. The research on natural biodegradable packaging materials soluble in water and made from seaweeds has moved to the next level!