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BioImpulse: heading towards 2024 after a promising year

Just like previous years, 2023 has been rich for the BioImpulse team, with the validation of the third milestone, and promising advances for the project.

The history of phenolic resins: the impact of Baekeland and Bakelite

n 1909, the Belgian-American chemist Leo Hendrik Baekeland changed the landscape of the plastics industry forever with his discovery of Bakelite, a revolutionary phenolic resin. Baekeland, often referred to as the "father of the plastics industry", opened the way to new possibilities in the manufacture of polymeric materials.

The BioImpulse project confirms its progress by validating a third key milestone!

Bio-sourcing, bio-production, and biotechnologies : what are the differences?

Bio-sourcing, bio-production, and biotechnology all play a significant role in the production of various consumer goods. While they share similarities, there are key differences between the three that make them unique, and answer to different challenges.

FCBA: Implementation of adhesive resins developed for wood applications

The FCBA technological institute supports companies in the forestry-wood and furniture sectors in their development of products and projects. Environmental and health impacts are...

The BioImpulse project confirms its progress by validating a second key stage

After a successful first milestone in 2021, the BioImpulse team validated this summer with ADEME the achievement of the second milestone. BioImpulse aims to create new adhesive resins free of Substances of Very High ...

INSA Toulouse via CRITT Bio-industries, its technology transfer structure in industrial biotechnology, apply its expertise to the BioImpulse project.

As a partner of BioImpulse project, CRITT Bio-Industries use its dual expertise (fermentation and purification) to obtain the molecule of interest that will be used in the composition of a new adhesive resin without SVHC compounds...

Happy new year 2022 !

2021 has been rich for the BioImpulse team, with the validation of the technology’s industrial feasibility, the project’s first milestone. We also celebrated Quentin Delapierre and Manon Audinet’s performance in Nacra 17 at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. This year, we...

A first milestone validated for the bioimpulse project

Initiated in 2019 for a duration of 6 years, the BioImpulse project aims to create a new adhesive resin without any of the so-called Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC). BioImpulse covers the development of the production process of a biobased molecule of interest...

TBI, TWB and the LGC pool their expertise in enzyme and strain engineering and process engineering for the benefit of the BioImpulse project.

TBI*, a joint research unit, and TWB*, a joint service unit, both under the tutelage of INRAE, INSA Toulouse and the CNRS, are helping develop new sustainable ways to produce enzymes and microbes by delivering alternative biological solutions that are innovative and...

Best wishes 2021

May this year bring you to new horizons, rich in projects and successes. Let’s encourage together for the 2021 Olympic games Manon and Quentin for the 2021 Olympic games...

Lesaffre’s capabilities in fermentation, applied to the BioImpulse project

Leaf, a business unit of Lesaffre, a key global player in the field of yeast and fermentation, is innovating in the field of green chemistry by developing fermentation solutions to reduce the industrial manufacturers’ dependence on fossil oil. Lesaffre’s...

BioImpulse in TWB Parole Experts – Olivier Rolland/TWB and Nicolas Seeboth/Michelin

Extract from “Paroles d’Experts” (February 2020) with Olivier Rolland/TWB and Nicolas Seeboth/Michelin, on the BioImpulse project. For the full version of the show (in French):...

Presentation of BioImpulse at EFIB on October 2019

The BioImpulse project was on show at EFIB 2019, the European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology & the Bioeconomy. Quentin Faucret (Head of ResiCare) presented “A new collaborative project giving an impulse to biotech and adhesives.”...

BioImpulse Kick-off meeting in Quiberon

On 4, 5 and 6 September 2019, the BioImpulse project team met for the first time in Quiberon, Brittany to mark the start of a scientific and human venture that will last for the next six years. The members of the five partner entities (ResiCare, INSA Toulouse, Leaf...