Entering its third year, the RUSTICA project is now heading full speed towards achieving the ambitious goals defined by the consortium as a response to the challenges that Europe faces. With a focus on the development of a technical solution to convert organic residues from the fruit and vegetable sector into novel bio-based fertiliser products,…

The establishment of a sustainable circular urban bioeconomy requires the effective up cycling of available biomass resources, especially as biowaste flows in cities can be used for the production of value added bio based products such as chemicals, plastics or nutrients Therefore, the European Commission established already in the Bioeconomy Strategy 2018 that cities should…

International project AgriLoop is launched to accelerate the future of circular agriculture by converting residues into high-value, eco-friendly products Thirty-five academic and private partners (including Avecom) from across Europe and China are now working together on the AgriLoop project, which will develop sustainable processes to convert agri-food residues into high-value, eco-friendly products for use in…

Avecom will be present at the Belgian ZNA Koi Show to present Bactocool Aquarium and Pond. It is of vital importance for your valuable koi fish to convert their toxic waste into non-toxic forms as quickly as possible.  Ammonia and nitrite are the most important damaging waste materials for your fish – they can be…

The third edition of the International Meeting on New Strategies in Bioremediation/Restoration Processes (BioRemid2023) will take place at Muttenz (Switzerland) on the 29th and 30th of June 2023 . BioRemid2023 will be hosted by the School of Life Sciences – University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW). The objective of this meeting is to bring together…

As the global population is on the rise, the need for food and especially protein-rich meals is increasing every day. But the current way of production is taking a heavy burden on our planet. During this workshop European and Asian start-ups and SMEs will showcase their innovations in two alternative protein technologies: single cell protein…

Sustainable biobased products from agrifood side streams Avecom is excited to share the final results of the INGREEN project. Together with 17 partners, we contributed to the development of functional ingredients for food, feed, pharma/nutraceuticals, cosmetics and bio-degradable packaging from paper and agro-food side streams through biotechnology. The INGREEN project developed new methods to produce…

After 3,5 years, the INGREEN consortium looks back at a successful collaboration in which the predefined objectives and more were achieved. Therefore, we are delighted to share a summary of the final project results as well as acknowledge the accomplishments of the partners in this final newsletter. In other news, if you would like to know more about the creation…

Not only the first half year but also summer is clearly over as we are in the middle of a very busy last third of 2022. Within the CAFIPLA project, many activities were scheduled for the past months and finally several on site events could take place – overall a lot of activities were happening:…