The consortium, such as 12 European partners and led by Michelin Engineered Polymers, goals to construct and operate an HMF Flagship Plant to establish the wide variety of applications for HMF
Avantium N.V., a leader in renewable and circular polymer materials, has been awarded a €200,000 grant by the EU Horizon Europe program to participate in a consortium for the huge-scale manufacturing of the biobased chemical 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF).
The consortium, such as 12 European companions and led via Michelin Engineered Polymers, goals to construct and operate an HMF Flagship Plant to establish the wide variety of applications for HMF. The venture also plans to evaluate synergies with Avantium’s FDCA Flagship Plant.
HMF is a biobased chemical inferred from sugars, such as fructose. Due to its versatility and capability to replace a wide range of conventionally generated building blocks, HMF serves as a main median among biomass and biochemicals.
Despite its significant capacity, there are recently no large-scale industrial procedures to produce HMF. Michelin Engineered Polymers, specialized in developing improved polymer materials, plans to engineer and build an industrial-scale HMF plant underneath the grant program.
The grant consortium will even discover a extensive variety of bio-based sustainable applications for HMF. HMF can as an instance be used as an median in the manufacturing of FDCA. This creates an instantaneous link among Michelin’s planned HMF plant and Avantium’s FDCA Technology. The anticipated synergies will support to generate an integrated and sustainable European manufacturing ecosystem that decrease environmental effect and strengthens the economic resilience of the European chemical industry.
The consortium, acknowledged underneath the name CERISEA, has received a €20 million EU Horizon Europe grant in overall. Michelin Engineered Polymers will lead the consortium, which includes Avantium and 10 other industry and academic corporations: IFP Energies Nouvelles, ADM Bazancourt SASU, ARKEMA, Kraton Chemical B.V., Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), IFEU – Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg, Instituto Tecnológico del Embalaje, Transporte y Logística, Energieinstitut an der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz Verein, and Bioeconomy for Change.
