INDUSTRIES
Automotive

Once the European Union is among the world’s biggest producers of motor vehicles, BIOMAT aims to make the automotive industry more environment-friendly! This Project paves the way towards developing highly innovative, safe, and sustainable interior car parts such as seat cushions, headrests, and steering wheel, using the newly developed novel soft and semi-rigid bio-polyurethane (bio-PUR) foams. This will further result in improved reliability, durability, and reduced life-cycle costs.

INDUSTRIES
Automotive

Once the European Union is among the world’s biggest producers of motor vehicles, BIOMAT aims to make the automotive industry more environment-friendly! This Project paves the way towards developing highly innovative, safe, and sustainable interior car parts such as seat cushions, headrests, and steering wheel, using the newly developed novel soft and semi-rigid bio-polyurethane (bio-PUR) foams. This will further result in improved reliability, durability, and reduced life-cycle costs.

INDUSTRIES
Cutting-edge solutions for Building and Construction Industries

BIOMAT’s researchers will develop nano-enabled bio-based rigid and semi-rigid polyurethane (PUR) foams from bio-polyols and bio-nanofillers to scale-up and produce lining road tunnel waterproofing and molded insulation panels and/or sandwiches with, among others, high heat-insulation and noise insulation capabilities, flame retardancy reduced energy consumption materials for the construction and building industries.

INDUSTRIES
Furniture and Bedding Industry

BIOMAT is working on a new generation of chairs, sofas, and mattresses in the Furniture and Bedding industries. Single-bed, childbed mattresses and upholstered sofas and chairs based on nano-enabled soft and semi-soft bio-polyurethane foams, with a structure based on open-cell that increases density, durability, flexibility, strength, fatigue resistance, form stability, air permeability, and body support. These foams are also Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) free. This is the Project Consortium’s main goal for the Furniture & Bedding Industry, in response to the unsustainable petroleum-based PUR foams used in typical soft and semi-soft foams applications.

BIOMAT is a highly innovative European Project which aims to revolutionize the Building, Construction, Automotive, Furniture & Bedding markets. How?

By transforming the typical PUR foams into a sustainable, cost effective, biobased and nano-enabled alternative. Through BIOMAT Project, we will establish an Open Innovation Test Bed that will be the key to a more sustainable Europe.

BIOMAT NEWS
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BIOMAT will work with European Standardization Organizations to innovate on production processes
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BIOMAT Project's international partners convene in Barcelona to discuss progress and future plans
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Sustainability celebrated in Italy: BIOMAT highlighted at MECSPE
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2nd Open Call deadline extended until September 30th
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BIOMAT highlighted at the European Aerosol Conference (EAC2023)
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Submission Guidelines help entities submit their application for BIOMAT’s 2nd Open Call
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BIOMAT’s 2nd Open Call was extended to encompass more target markets
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BIOMAT’s 2nd Open Call is open
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BIOMAT’s recent advances in PUR aerogels research disseminated in Spain
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BIOMAT aims to revolutionise the Building & Construction, Automotive and Furniture & Bedding markets
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BIOMAT launches a Service Catalogue with the technologies available for European SMEs
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International Sopot Youth Conference 2023: “Where the World is Heading”
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BIOMAT participates in “Circular and Bio-based Building Solutions” Workshop
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BIOMAT attends Workshop on the future of OITBs at EuroNanoForum 2023
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BIOMAT results highlighted at nanoSAFE 2023
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BIOMAT highlighted in Riga, Latvia
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BIOMAT is hosting a free hybrid workshop in Germany on July 20th
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BIOMAT’s sustainable materials and solutions for the Automotive sector highlighted in Italy
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BIOMAT Open Call featured in an event organised by EUBIA
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European SMEs and industries can apply for BIOMAT’s services free of charge
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BIOMAT promotes free Workshop for SMEs to accelerate the European bioeconomy
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Pre-registration for BIOMAT-TB is now available!
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BIOMAT presented at the European Society for Biomaterials (ESB) Conference 
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BIOMAT publicised at the 2nd Salzburg Conference for Smart Materials
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BIOMAT featured in France at SOLGEL 2022
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BIOMAT present in Greece at Nanotexnology 2022
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BIOMAT presented at IndTech2022 in France
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BIOMAT highlighted at MECSPE 2022 in Italy
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BIOMAT promotes free Workshop to boost European company’s innovation and sustainability
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BIOMAT at the 5th National Conference of Rigid Polyurethane Foam in Italy
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BIOMAT presents its Single-Entry Point at an online workshop which included 4 Open Innovation Test Beds (OITB)
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BIOMAT brings the future car’s polyurethane-based foams to the Automotive Interiors Expo Europe 2021
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Meet BIOMAT’s partners
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BIOMAT Webinar: Advanced Technical Services for Material Innovation
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BIOMAT highlighted at MI(N)Tmachwelt in Germany!
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BIOMAT Showcased at WAITRO SUMMIT 2024, China
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BIOMAT promotes the publication of a new standard by CEN and CENELEC
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BIOMAT highlighted at Workshop on Sustainability in Tunisia!
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BIOMAT at the 5th International Conference on Bio-based Polymers and Composites in Hungary
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Future CWA standard on Methodology for data-driven management of production processes open for public commenting
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BIOMAT's participation at the GEI-SIBSC Conference
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BIOMAT presented at SETAC in Spain!
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BIOMAT’s innovative bioprocess solutions highlighted at ITG's Open House Event
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BIOMAT highlighted in France at EUBCE 2024
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BIOMAT participation at INDTech 2024
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BIOMAT presented in Madrid at Construtec
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BIOMAT was highlighted in Germany at The Greener Manufacturing Show
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There is a European Project that wants to make Europe more sustainable
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BIOMAT Project kick-off meeting: the future starts now!
PARTNERS
Portugal
Centre for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (CeNTI) - Coordinator
Germany
Institut fuer Verbundwerkstoffe GmbH (IVW)
Spain
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Italy
National Research Council of Italy (CNR)
Germany
Hochschule Kaiserslautern (HSK)
Germany
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V (FRH)
France
INDATECH SAS (INDA)
Italy
Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB)
Spain
Castilla la Mancha University (UCLM)
Spain
Fundacion Instituto Tecnologico de Galicia (ITG)
Israel
Bar-Ilan University (BIU)
Italy
Project Sas di Massimo Perucca (PRJ)
Spain
Asociación Española de Normalización (UNE)
Israel
GlobalWise Ltd. (GLO)
Germany
Kessler ProData GmbH (KES)
Portugal
European Sky (EUR)
Italy
Stellantis (CRF)
Spain
ACCIONA Construction S.A. (ACI)
Latvia
Ritols (RIT)
Italy
AEP Polymers Srl (AEP)
Israel
OSM-DAN (OSM)
Israel
Melodea (MEL)
Spain
PLASFI, S.A. (PLAS)
Portugal
Certificação de Têxteis e de Vestuário (CTV)
Portugal
LKCOM (LKC)
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