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Bizente, flagship project at Composiforum 2022
The Bizente project was one of the flagship projects presented at the 3rd edition of COMPOSIFORUM, the international forum on composite materials, organised by the Aitiip-Unizar chair. The Consortium members offered masterful speeches, approaching the [...]
Bizente’s innovations at ESIB 2022 in Austria
Bussy month, November, for Bizente's Consortium. Our team is moving across Europe to show the project's developments and innovations. In this case, Aitiip and Biosphere scientists made a presentation of the project research lines [...]
Bizente’s toxicity test with the earthworm Eisenia foetida: use of two polyerster resins
As a first step for the toxicity & safety evaluation of products in BIZENTE project (WP3, Task 3.1), a toxicity test has been carried out by the University of Cadiz using Eisenia foetida. This [...]
Composite materials: a reality in the aeronautical sector
Aircraft decommissioning and recycling is a multi-disciplinary process, with environmental, operational, safety, legal and economic aspects. The number of aircraft retirements has been increasing steadily over the last decades. BIZENTE presents a biocatalytic model of [...]
How to develop enzymatic technologies for degradation
Bizente’s main goal is to develop enzymatic solutions for the end-of-life treatment of complex composite materials. EvoEnzyme is the partner in charge of the engineering of novel enzymes (ligninolytic and hydrolytic) by directed evolution to [...]
ARAID researchers learn about the power of enzymes in the industry of the future thanks to BIZENTE
During the month of October 2022, BIZENTE held a scientific workshop with the Aragonese Foundation for Research and Development (ARAID). The main objective of the event was to present the BIZENTE project to a [...]
Chemical modifications to resins in order to ease the targeted biodegradation process
Unlike thermoplastic for which effective recycling options do exist, thermoset composites cannot be melted because they contain, in their structure, crosslinked polymer networks based on irreversible chemical bonds. Therefore, currently most of the thermoset [...]
The BIZENTE worm at the European Researchers’ Night 2022
The University of Cadiz and the BIZENTE project are taking part in the European Researchers' Night 2022, which was held in Cadiz on 30 September. This scientific dissemination event, which takes place in the [...]
ACCIONA studies the validation of modified resins and byproducts within Bizente project
ACCIONA CONSTTUCTION, partner in Bizente project, is a Spanish construction company present in over 30 countries through its different divisions and with a turnover of over 3 billion euros and around 11,300 employees. ACCIONA [...]