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Isabel provided a comprehensive overview of environmental risk assessment and ecotoxicology, highlighting the importance of evaluating the environmental footprint of innovative materials.

Aratz explored how dynamic polymer networks and reversible chemistries enable recyclable, reprocessable and repairable thermoset composites.

Within the Bio-Uptake project, Centexbel has successfully developed low-shrinkage, high-strength PLA yarns, addressing a key challenge in bio-based composite manufacturing.

During this session, Ruben shared practical insights into melt processing technologies for biobased thermoplastics, highlighting their relevance for sustainable textile and composite applications.

Within the Bio-Uptake project, Centexbel has successfully developed and produced two different PLA woven fabrics, contributing to the advancement of sustainable composite applications.

🌱 BIO-UPTAKE Newsletter #5 is out!

As part of JEC World 2026, join us for a European Projects Networking Cocktail designed to bring together EU projects, clusters and industrial stakeholders.

Bio-Uptake Processes and Prospects for Sustainable Composites
Advances and Lessons Learned in Injection Moulding, Thermoforming, Digitalisation and Environmental Performance of Bio-Based Composites.

Date: February 9th
Time: 10:00 – 14:00 (GMT+1) - For UK and Ireland 9:00 - 13:00

Today’s focus is on one of BIO-UPTAKE’s construction demonstrators: the ceiling for pre-fabricated bathroom pods, and the value chain behind it, as illustrated in our latest infographic.

Today, we’re sharing an infographic that illustrates one of BIO-UPTAKE’s complete value chains: the development of bio-based feet insoles for the medical sector.

A key pillar of BIO-UPTAKE is designing materials with circularity in mind and today, we highlight the innovative work of SPECIFIC POLYMERS on Covalent Adaptable Network (CAN) resins.

Developing bio-based composites is not only about performance and processability, it is also about ensuring their safety throughout their entire life cycle. That’s where the CESAM - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies plays a crucial role within the BIO-UPTAKE project.

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Today, we are proud to highlight another significant scientific contribution from the Bernal Institute, University of Limerick, this time led by Clotilde Techoueyres, supervised by Anne Beaucamp Mc Loughlin and Maurice N Collins. It is titled: “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝘆𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗲-𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗶𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗲-𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗶𝗼-𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘅𝗶𝗲𝘀.”

Quality assurance is a crucial step in any manufacturing process. In BIO-UPTAKE, AIMEN Centro Tecnológico plays a key role in ensuring that bio-based composite parts meet the highest standards. They have developed an artificial vision system for real-time quality control.

Today, we highlight the essential role of Aitiip Centro Tecnologico, whose expertise in compounding and bio-based material formulation directly contributes to the development of the bio-pellets used to manufacture our demonstrator: a biobased waste-bin lid.

We are delighted to have presented our project to the S3 Congress in Lyon on November 6, 2025,

🚀 Join us for the BIO-UPTAKE Online Workshop on ecotoxicological analysis!

Are you working with biobased materials or involved in sustainable manufacturing? Then this workshop could be for you!

Bio-Uptake was present at the K Fair 2025 in Dusseldorf

Exciting news! BIO-UPTAKE is joining forces with a European project through a promising new partnership.

🎉 BIO-UPTAKE will be showcased at 𝗞-𝗠𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 / 𝗞-𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱
📍 Join us at the Polymeris booth – 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝟓 𝐃𝟎𝟒-𝟏𝟏 from 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟖𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝟏𝟓𝐭𝐡 in 𝐃𝐮̈𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐟.

🔍 At BIO-UPTAKE, we believe that impact grows when we join forces. That’s why we’re highlighting the CUBIC EU Project, another Horizon Europe initiative working toward more sustainable and circular value chains through the use of bio-based materials.

Last week, the BIO-UPTAKE project partners gathered at Aitiip Centro Tecnológico to review the latest developments.

As part of the product development for a bathroom ceiling cabinet, flame retardancy tests were carried out by CIDETEC — as shown in the picture.

✅ The test confirms the effectiveness of the formulation using commercially available Part A and BUP-14, selected as the bio-based formulation, combined with SPECIFIC POLYMERS' epoxy (DGEVA).

🎯 In the pursuit of high-performance bio-based materials for the BIO-UPTAKE project, Centexbel has successfully developed high tenacity PLA yarns with significantly enhanced mechanical properties.

As part of the Biouptake project, a thermal camera prototype was tested at CENTEXBEL’s facilities in November. The objective was to evaluate the feasibility of using thermal imaging for real-time yarn temperature monitoring during the stretching process.

📢 Our third newsletter has finally arrived. Here it is!

You'll find all our latest news, especially regarding the 𝐨𝐧 𝟑𝐑-𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐬, 𝐛𝐢𝐨-𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫, 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, our upcoming events and more.

🌍 Recap of our Consortium Meeting in Vigo, Spain!
Last week, we gathered in Vigo for our 24-month consortium meeting to review progress and discuss the results achieved so far in the project.

A big thank you to AIMEN Centro Tecnológico for hosting and organizing this productive meeting! 👏

If you want to be kept informed of results and progress, stay connected with us and don't hesitate to follow us!

📢 We were at the University of Coimbra for the 9th International Conference on Bio-based and Biodegradable Polymers (#BIOPOL)

Our new partner from CESAM - Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies presented 2 posters about BIO-UPTAKE and studies on bio-polymers.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us to know more about our greener solutions for composite materials.

Bio-Uptake was present at the France Innovation Plasturgie - FIP in Lyon thanks to our partners Simcon France and POLYMERIS.

During this event, we were able to :
👉 Present the different advances of the project
💡 Exchange innovative project ideas
🌐 Meet industry experts

If you have any questions about our project, please don't hesitate to get back to us.

Every year, the University of Aveiro organizes XPERIMENTA, an exciting science fair dedicated to high school students. This year's event took place on May 2 and 3 and offered a host of hands-on activities lasting around an hour, spread across different departments at the university.

The experiment highlighted the importance of the plastics industry's transition to biobased materials, a crucial step towards a more sustainable future.

📢 Our second newsletter has finally arrived. Here it is!

You'll find all our latest news, especially regarding the 𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐨-𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐬, our upcoming events and more.

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♻ Bioproducts for the #bioeconomy! This is the common objective of 6 EU-funded projects that will develop joint initiatives in the next years.

We labeled this initiative as the BIO-MATTERS Cluster and now we have published a new page on our website, here, gathering a description of each project!

📢 Such a great pleasure to have met last week in Kortrijk for our 12 month Consortium meeting.
We received a really warm welcome from Centexbel, with a nice tour of the city and meals much appreciated! 👌
It helped bonding before our one day meeting and the workshop on exploitation.
We are all looking forward to showing you some results we discused and the videos we shot 😉

So stay connected with us and don't hesitate to follow us!

📢 On the 14th of June, we were in Gijon, Spain at the Matcomp23 conference and the BIO-UPTAKE project has been presented 😉 Special thanks to the speaker Aratz Genua from CIDETEC, who talked about the general objective of the project and the work that CIDETEC is doing with bio-based 3R prepregs for a bathroom ceiling manufacture !

👉 If you want to learn more about the project, don’t hesitate to contact us !

The European Green Deal aims to make Europe climate neutral by 2050 through circular production models. The workshop focusses on the BIO-UPTAKE solution to produce biobased end-products, REDOL ecosystem to foster zero residues strategies and BIOECONOMY VENTURES to support bioeconomy initiatives.