Founders

Technology - SYCLE Process

Goal: Develop a high performance process for the production of 5-HMF and FDCA from sugars

Our work streams on technology:

• Optimize process to convert sugars present in biomass into 5-HMF and FDCA

• Develop new catalysts to increase performance and efficiency

• Control the purity of the 5-HMF and the FDCA

• Qualify and expand the range of biomasses usable by our process

• Ensure the remaining biomass is valued in our process 

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SYCLE stands in french for synthesis of a polyvalent material by extraction

Demonstration

Goal: Operate a pilot and demonstrate the benefits of 5-HMF, FDCA and other bio-sourced derivatives to end-users

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We are designing a demonstrator, in order to accurately assess the technology, business model and benefits for each stakeholder of the value chain:

• Farmers, biomass, and sugar suppliers

• Agrifood industries

• Food distributors

• Actors of purification

• Polymerists

• End-users

• Communities

Value Chains

Goal: Bring partners together to build new & local value chains

We will qualify applications of 5-HMF and FDCA

• Biobased epoxies and without bisphenol A, to ensure health and environmental protection, and comply with regulations

• 3D printing, allowing industry to use more local resources, reduce their carbon footprint, optimize their parts supply and storage costs

• Bio-sourced food packaging with improved oxygen, carbon dioxide, water and bacteria sealing properties allowing longer shelf life

• Other industrial applications