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BUGWORKERS is a European collaborative project aiming to develop new tailor-made materials from environmentally friendly production routes. The materials are based on a polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) biopolymer matrix and lignocellulosic nanofibres and will be a real alternative to existing engineering materials. The outcomes of this project will be targeted at 2 main sectors - household appliances and computers/telecommunications.


Courtesy Biotrend SA		Courtesy biorefinery.de GmbH/ Research Institute Biopos e.V.		Courtesy Fundación LEIA

Latest News

December 2011

The BUGWORKERS consortium held an exploitation strategy seminar on 14^th December 2011 in Belgium. This meeting identified the main scientific advances which the project has or is expected to achieve, and a plan for the use and the dissemination of the foreground (PUDF) was written. The seminar was expertly managed by Mauro Caocci and the consortium wish to express their gratitude to him for facilitating the meeting. The project is on track to develop a cost effective technique to use agricultural waste as a feedstock for the bacterial production of poly-hydroxy butyrate polymer.

August 2010

The kick-off meeting for the BUGWORKERS project was held on 27th and 28th July 2010 in Valencia, Spain. During the meeting the consortium discussed and planned the initial experimental work including the first tests to obtain PHB and the enzymatic processes to produce the lignin and cellulose nanoparticles. You can find out more by reading the press release here.

Acknowledgements

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement number 246449.