Over five years, the consortium has sought to develop and validate polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA and PHB) materials and production processes that offer viable alternatives to fossil-based plastics, while supporting compliance with the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation 

The 18 consortium partners joined forces under the coordination of AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Centre based in Valencia, Spain. The project was funded by the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking ( CBE JU )  with a reported 7.6 million Euros under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

Rosa González Leyba, project coordinator at AIMPLAS, emphasizes: “Our consortium has successfully scaled up innovative biorefinery processes and developed biobased materials for rigid packaging for food and non-food applications, obtaining packaging prototypes which are very close to the current counterparts on the market.”

The EU-funded BioSupPack project has concluded its activities after 5 years, stating it has successfully demonstrated that brewery waste can be transformed into high-performance bioplastics for sustainable packaging.

Over five years, the consortium has sought to develop and validate polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA and PHB) materials and production processes that offer viable alternatives to fossil-based plastics, while supporting compliance with the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR).

The 18 consortium partners joined forces under the coordination of AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Centre based in Valencia, Spain. The project was funded by the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) with a reported 7.6 million Euros under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

Rosa González Leyba, project coordinator at AIMPLAS, emphasizes: “Our consortium has successfully scaled up innovative biorefinery processes and developed biobased materials for rigid packaging for food and non-food applications, obtaining packaging prototypes which are very close to the current counterparts on the market.”

In 2025 the project announced it had developed a compostable, renewable material from brewer’s spent grain that can replace conventional polyolefins and be used to develop new thermoplastic materials and coatings for packaging in the food, cosmetics, and household cleaning sectors.