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- Support and funding to showcase Yorkshire SMEs at WorldBioGas Expo 22.
- BDC wins higher education innovation funding to boost collaboration with industry.
- Register for the Regulation and Quality for Entrepreneurs event in the Healthcare Sector – 3rd February 2022
- Register for THYME Entrepreneurship Workshop: Confidence that Converts – 19th January–9th February 2022
- Register now for the sustainability in Cosmetics networking event – 16th February 2022
- Register now for the Hemp Happening event – 6th April 2022
- BDC part of new funding announcement: UK industrial hemp production and processing
- Self Employed Cleaner Required Immediately
- Further funding boost announced for the region’s bioeconomy
- Bioeconomy: how renewable resources can help the future of our planet
- THYME researchers awarded a place at the Royal Society Summer Science 2021
- Try before you buy: funded support to help you identify and buy new equipment for your bio-based processing
- Showcasing new innovations and collaborations from THYME
- We have made a short video to showcase our facilities.
- Webinar recording: How to find increased value from your by-products & waste streams
- New funding will support Yorkshire businesses to develop anaerobic digestion technologies
- European SMEs pilot their innovative green technologies at the Biorenewables Development Centre
- Funding boost for sugar beet project
- Novel bioenergy pellets being developed to reduce Yorkshire’s carbon footprint and help its wildlife
- BioYorkshire: Leading the region’s green ambitions for a post-Covid economic recovery
- The BDC lab and scale up facilities are now open again
- The BDC is part of a new initiative to help Yorkshire SMEs future proof their business
- Funding received to support Yorkshire’s bioeconomy innovations
- BDC Operations During the COVID-19 Lockdown
- BDC partners with University of York and industry in PhD pilot
- Almost £1 million of funding secured for bioeconomy research.
- Supporting young entrepreneurs in the bioeconomy
- Let’s play with rubbish: a new board game for the bioeconomy
- Apply now: THYME proof of concept funding.
- Circular Yorkshire Campaign November 2019.
- A new resource for schools outreach – the Bioeconomy Outreach Centre.
- Apply now – THYME Entrepreneurship Training, York
- New polymerisation reactor system strengthens on-going development and scale-up of novel bioplastic polymers
- Apply now: proof of concept funding from the THYME project
- Apply now: proof of concept funding from the THYME project
- Co-author of a Nobel Peace Prize Winning report on climate change to appear at York Festival of Ideas
- Now available: pre-funded projects to help Yorkshire businesses.
- Register now to attend the BDC talk at the Pint of Science Festival.
- Register now – 2nd Microwave Commercialisation Club Workshop.
- Register now – Natural ingredient innovation for flavours & fragrances.
- Three projects for the BDC in the 1st round of THYME POC funding.
- Register now – THYME project: networking opportunities at York, join us on 28th March.
- Register now – Anaerobic Digestion: Regional Research Showcase event, 11th April, York.
- Join our workshop to discuss the advancement of bio-based products and processes in the UK market, 9th April, York.
- HRH The Princess Royal participated in the launch of BioYork, a new bioeconomy initiative which includes the BDC.
- New funding available to develop Yorkshire’s biobased businesses.
- Proof of concept grants now available for bioeconomy research.
- Fully-funded training opportunity for bioeconomy entrepreneurs
- New UK-India collaboration tackles industrial waste
- Yorkshire food manufacturing could be improved by harnessing waste
- Funding boost announced for the region’s bioeconomy
- Scientists team up with industry partners to turn potato starch into batteries for electric vehicles
- Landmark alliance launched to support the growth of the UK bioeconomy
- Government advisers look to York experts for insight into bio-waste
- New pilot-scale facility opens to create high-value products from municipal waste
- BDC chosen to be part of the alternative Northern Powerhouse
- We’re hiring!
- BDC joins major food corporations in signing Wrap’s ambitious Courtauld Commitment 2025
- New research explores high-value applications for rapeseed oil
- BDC expands offer for bio-based innovations with £3M investment
- BDC’s Research Development Officer wins “Making the Difference” award
- Where there’s muck there’s brass: high value products from agricultural waste
- York’s innovative BDC is among the best of the north!
- International bioeconomy conference comes to York in June 2015
- York’s contribution to international biofuel research is recognised by Brazil.
- BioVale organises trade mission to France
- BDC scoops UKSPA award
- BioVale: kick-starting the Yorkshire and Humber bioeconomy
- BDC signs-up 100th project!
- Welcome to the new BDC website!
- New grants scheme to help Yorkshire and Humber SMEs invest in innovative green technologies
- BDC celebrates first anniversary
- Business Secretary opens unique national facility to expand the use of plants by industry
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- Surface Air System (SAS) air samplers
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- ViiA7 quantitative real time PCR system
- SNPline system
- Ion Torrent personal genome machine
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- Agilent 2200 TapeStation nucleic acids system
Case studies
- High performance bioplastic that can help combat climate change
- Turning the humble potato into high-value plant-based food ingredient
- Unravelling complexity of flavour and aroma compounds in cold brew coffee and tea
- Exploring a hidden value of mining waste
- Decoding flavour and aroma compounds in hand-crafted vinegar products
- New biomaterials combat hard-to-heal wounds
- A soapy Yorkshire producer turns their handmade square soap bar, into a thriving circular business
- Turning grass to gas
- Parblex®: from food waste to bioplastics
- On a mission to end food poverty in UK schools
- THYME-funded projects address challenges for the bioeconomy
- Recycling compost liquor into organic plant feed
- Unlocking a secret behind flavours of organic kombucha
- Beekeeping blooming in Yorkshire
- From agricultural by-products to one of the UK’s first circular food & beverage brands
- Novel supplement boosts the biomethane production in anaerobic digestion reactors
- Novel microwave pre-treatment of feedstocks for anaerobic digestion
- Turning seaweed into everyday products
- New carbonaceous bio-based material for a variety of applications
- Making pharmaceuticals from food waste
- Getting added value from wood pellets
- Turning potato starch into batteries for electric vehicles
- Making use of wastes from food and drink production
- Using recycled plastic ‘planks’ to grow plants through hydroponics
- New crops for bio-based lubricants
- Resource mapping for biorefining in Scotland
- Novel processing technologies to develop naturally-derived insect repellents
- Converting biomass into high-value chemicals
- Shelf-life implications of oil
- Growth trials for crop stimulants
- Revolutionising nanofiber filtration
- Seeds for growth
- Cardboard cuts out waste
- Helping green the energy market
- Pets snaffling for more treats
- Meaty opportunities from waste
- Cashing in the chips
- High-value chemicals from household waste
- Bees fight bugs and win
- Growing the post anaerobic digestion market
- The seeds of a new relationship
- Optimising industrial hemp for skin care
- Food waste for high value chemicals
- Added-value glycerine from biodiesel waste
- High value renewable waxes from agricultural waste
- Optimising fungi for biorefining high value chemicals from industrial biowaste
- Increasing yield of anti-malarial medicine through fast track plant breeding
- Extracting value from agricultural waste
- Evaluation of microbrewery waste streams
- Novel technology for the treatment of biomass
