Vertoro, one of our partnes in BIOSAFIRE, is are on a mission to revolutionise the chemical landscape by offering a truly bio-based alternative to fossil resources. Their core innovation, Goldilocks®, is a versatile, renewable platform derived from lignin and woody biomass that can ultimately replace crude oil as a feedstock for materials, chemicals and fuels, helping industries reduce their carbon footprint without increasing costs.
Within this spirit of sustainable innovation, we are excited to share progress from the biosourced flame retardants value chain: after exploring various feedstocks at the Vertoro pilot plant, we have identified viable options for scalable lignin blends that will be used as building blocks in the synthesis of flame-retardant materials.
In this research, maintaining the right balance between scalability and targeted molecular range has been key — ensuring that the lignin fractions we produce are both practical to upscale and suitable for high-performance applications.
This milestone supports the broader goal of integrating lignin-derived components into more sustainable flame-retardant solutions while advancing bio-based chemistry at industrially relevant scales.
🚀 Stay tuned for more updates on our journey from bio-based feedstocks to real industrial impact!
What is BIOSAFIRE all about?
BIOSAFIRE will develop and upscale innovative products upgrading nature’s best fire retardants (FRs): lignins and tannins. To ensure that these novel products are safe and sustainable, while retaining their desired technological functionality, they will be thoroughly assessed by applying the SSbD framework at different stages of their development and the results will be iteratively fed into the further design and optimisation of the technologies. Involving the full material value chain, these flame retardants will be upscaled to TRL7 and demonstrated in five different applications.
Excited for the journey ahead and the positive impact we’ll create together!
