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  • 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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Case studies

• 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