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Teruel, a strategic enclave for the areospace industry
In the last decade, Teruel airport has become a worldwide known aeronautical hub in the aviation industry. Aircraft painting business will shortly be added to aircraft parking, maintenance and recycling services that are already available. [...]
Customised enzymes on model compound in liquid medium
In this task, TUDelft investigates the principal feasibility of ligninases, specifically peroxygenases to oxidatively cleave the backbone of common thermoset composites. The chemical philosophy of this approach is based on the higher reactivity of C-H [...]
Towards biocatalytic depolymerisation of recalcitrant polymers
Bizente gets to the last month of the year with promising developments. Polymers are an indispensable part of our modern life. The chemical structure of today’s polymers, however, also poses an enormous environmental challenge with [...]
Innovation and synergies at the Bizente’s stakeholders meeting
Within the framework of the M30 General Assembly, and hosted by the coordinator Aitiip Technology Center, Bizente's Consotrium also celebrated a stakeholders meeting, where a dozen of industrial representatives had the oportunity to meet Bizente's [...]
Bizente celebrates its M30 General Assembly at Aitiip’s facilities
Last November, Bizente celebrated its General Assembly at Aitiip's facilities, coinciding with the month 30 of the project lifetime. All the Consortium members were reunited with the aim of putting together the project progresses within [...]
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
Busy 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 [...]