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Creating a collaborative bioeconomy business model based on industrial symbiosis to create diversification opporunities for farmer cooperatives and companies.
Grand-Est bioeconomy ecosystem and its flagship: the Pomacle-Bazancourt biorefinery. It manufactures food and feed ingredients, fuels and chemicals.
The main incoming biomasses are sugar beets, wheat, and wood. The Pomacle Bazancourt agro-industrial complex is a flagship site demonstrating high value products for the food, feed chemical, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. Build on the foundation of traditional food (sugar beet and wheat) processing plants, the company began to diversify through its R&D facilities in the 1990s, attracting more companies onsite and beginning to target fuels and bio-based chemicals (succinic acid), and cosmetics. The biorefinery concept is based on circular economy and sharing of resources, all companies are independent but also stronger as they can reduce costs (but using energy, resources from other company and reduce logistic) but also share their knowledges and encourage research and development together. This model is developed in other sites (at a lower scale) in Grand-Est and can be shared all around the world.
a) Existence of Dynamic and industrial ecosystem by supplying each other with intermediate products, energy and services, b) Economies of scale or diversification made possible by its geographical proximity c) Market upstream and downstream activities are key to production and economic and environmental optimization.
a) Optimization of water, material and energy consumption, b)) industrial symbiosis leads to increased resource efficiency c) displacement of fossil-based resources
The particularity of this biorefinery comes up from the commitment of farmers via their cooperatives and in the fact that it combines an industrial cluster and an innovation platform. During first installation of the biorefinery, farmers were involved in the governance of the site and the development of some of the local industries.
Farmers and Cooperatives, R&D Depts, Collaborative companies across multiple sectors sharing resources, regional government, downstream users
Sugar beet, wheat, lignocellulose
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Grand Est bioeconomy
Fermentation
Sugar (from beets), Starch products (from wheat), Biochemicals, Cosmetics bioethanol, Pellets (from wood),
4 million tonnes of biomass processed annually
France
1990
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