SuperBark

🎥 Our first official SuperBark video is on its way! Stay tuned to more about our journey and the impact we're making on the bioeconomy 😎🍿 Read more about our project 🌲 www.superbark.eu #SuperBark #Biobased #Adhesives #Coatings #Bioeconomy

🌳 Can wood treatment and biocide products be produced from wood bark? This is what the #Interreg Greater Region project ExtraBark aims to explore 🔬 By unlocking the potential of tree bark — an undervalued by-product of the wood industry — ExtraBark seeks to extract and characterize valuable molecules for plant and wood protection products, offering a sustainable alternative to synthetic chemicals. ExtraBark brings together a consortium of 7 financial & 4 methodological partners from Belgium, Luxembourg, France, and Germany 🤝 The project has kicked off in January 2024 and will run until February 2027. We are excited to collaborate with the ExtraBark team on future activities, and achieve our shared goals in creating bio-based products from bark! 🙌 Read more about ExtraBark 🌳🌳 https://lnkd.in/dyFEwh35 #ExtraBark #EUProject #Innovation #Bioeconomy #Sustainability

Congratulations to the 30 new projects funded by Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU)! ✨👏

We hosted an LCA Workshop together with BIORING! 🤩 In December, BIORING and SuperBark successfully held an insightful online workshop focused on LCA methodologies for bio-based product development. Over 60 researchers, industry experts, and other key stakeholders joined us to exchange knowledge and experiences, and discover insights from EU-funded projects LIGNICOAT BBI Project, THERMOFIRE CBE-JU, ZeroF project, and FRACTION EU PROJECT. Our workshop discussions highlighted ideas around four key topics: 1️⃣ Bridging Data Gaps 2️⃣ Enhancing Data Sharing & Transparency 3️⃣ Innovating LCA Modeling Approaches 4️⃣ Communicating LCA Results Effectively A huge thank you to BIORING for the collaboration, and to all the speakers and participants for their valuable contributions 👏 Looking forward to seeing you at future events! Discover the results and insights 📝 https://lnkd.in/dYmeuS7P Watch the full recording of presentations 🎥 https://lnkd.in/dDexhZzB #LCA #Workshop #BioBased #Innovations #Sustainability #Bioeconomy #DataSharing

5️⃣ We start the top 5 of the #CBEtop2024 with this story about #biobased materials advanced by our projects that attracted 8,200 views 👇 We know that #wood is a key ingredient in everyday items like construction materials, furniture, packaging, and textiles. But what happens to the bark, which makes up 10-15% of a tree trunk? 🧪 Usually, the bark is just a by-product used for energy. But what if the CBE JU-funded SuperBark project could unlock bark’s potential and turn it into a valuable source of #biobased chemicals for high-quality products? Discover how SuperBark is transforming the future of #sustainable materials: https://lnkd.in/g-y_TN9v

🎄 Season’s Greetings from SuperBark!🎄 As we celebrate the holidays surrounded by pines and Christmas trees, we are reminded how these beautiful evergreens inspired our bio-based solutions for the future. At SuperBark, we’re harnessing the potential of pine and spruce bark—a valuable sidestream from the forest industry—to develop safe, sustainable, and high-performance adhesives and coatings. Our goal? To replace harmful fossil-based substances like formaldehyde in industries such as furniture, construction, transport, and packaging with bio-based solutions containing over 95% renewable content. By testing, validating, and scaling our innovations, we’re working towards a cleaner, healthier, and more circular bioeconomy.🌲🌲 May your holiday season be full of joy for the future 🎁 #SeasonsGreetings #SuperBark #Sustainability #BioBased #Adhesives #Coatings #Bioeconomy

Thank you Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) for sharing our work on #SSbD! 🙌

SuperBark was showcased at ECOMONDO 2024 by Kastamonu Entegre 🌍 Kastamonu’s display featured their innovative Pureboard, a 100% bio-based product, and Coffeeboard, made from coffee ground waste. Their commitment to circularity is further emphasized by producing particleboards from 100% recycled material at their Italian factory. ♻️ In SuperBark, Kastamonu supplies pine bark from Türkiye to VTT Finland for polyphenol extraction and bio-based adhesive development, contributing to the next generation of eco-friendly wood panels. Learn more about Kastamonu's work in SuperBark by contacting Gülşah Balamut 🔎 #ECOMONDO2024 #BioBased #Innovations #Adhesives #SuperBark

SuperBark featured at the SSbD24 (Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design) Conference at Monte Verità, Switzerland, showcasing the safe and sustainability assessment framework used within the project. 🛡️🌱 WP5 Leader Panagiotis Isigonis, PhD from Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), presented the talk: “Early-stage application of the SSbD framework – Successes, considerations, and obstacles.” The presentation highlighted key SSbD work from SuperBark and ZeroF project, another Horizon project where LIST oversees SSbD assessments. Discover the full presentation ⏩ https://lnkd.in/dNx_zN-S #SSbDConference #Safety #Sustainability #Biobased #Innovation

SuperBark applies the Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) framework to guide the innovation processes for the development of bio-based alternative formulations for coatings and adhesives for wood and paper packaging applications. 💡 This is the focus of WP5 – Safe and Sustainable by Design process modelling, lead by Panagiotis Isigonis, PhD Isigonis at Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST). Discover our latest SSbD blog ⏩ https://lnkd.in/g_NFKJZG #SSBD #Safety #Sustainability #Biobased #Adhesives #Coatings