Touch Base with R&I projects: SuperBark

Safe, sustainable and high performance adhesives and coatings from industrial softwood bark

The SuperBark project exploits natural components in softwood bark, a major industrial byproduct of the forest industry, to develop bio-based adhesives and coatings for wood panels and packaging paper with the functional, safety, and sustainability standards required by the industry and consumers. The project extracts polyphenols from bark using a novel alkaline fractionation technology and conversion of cellulose-rich bark residues into cellulose nanofibrils (CNF), it also develops adhesive and coating formulations using bark polyphenols and CNF that meet technical requirements and build on SSbD. With a combination of digital technologies in process design, system dynamics modelling, and data analysis, the teams have accelerated the adhesive and coating developments and evaluated technical, socio-economic and market opportunities.

About this series

This is a series of online meetings connecting the European Bioplastics community with novel EU research and innovation (R&I) projects in the field of bioplastics. We bring together the representatives of projects that have just kicked off their activities with the EUBP members and partners.Each 45-minute session:

• Offers you first-hand insights into novel R&I approaches in the bioplastics sector
• Offers you opportunities for collaboration
• Gives you the chance to meet potential partners for future R&I projects

AudienceIndustries and RTOs involved in research & development, applications, standardisation, and regulatory affairs.

Format:20-minute presentation + 20-minute Q&A