Description du projet
Une alternative non toxique aux peintures antisalissures
La plupart des peintures de fond antisalissures contiennent des neurotoxines susceptibles d’avoir des effets extrêmement nocifs sur la santé humaine et l’environnement. Malheureusement, faute d’alternative et en dépit des nombreux risques qu’elles présentent pour la santé, elles restent largement utilisées comme agents antisalissures dans de nombreuses industries. Le projet ZABIO, financé par l’UE, est à l’origine de la création d’un système de fabrication à base de cellules pour la production renouvelable de composés sulfatés. L’acide zostérique d’origine biologique (ZA-bio), un agent antisalissure, est un produit sûr et écologique qui devrait devenir une option tout à fait compétitive pour remplacer les peintures chimiques toxiques. Le projet permettra de mettre un nouveau produit sur le marché et contribuera en cela à l’atteinte des objectifs environnementaux de l’UE.
Objectif
Across many huge industries, like construction, marine and agriculture, toxic biocides are used as antifouling agents to prevent micro- and macro-organism damaging surfaces. However such antifouling agents pose large environmental and societal burdens as they pollute the environment, harm ecosystems, are produced by fossil-based chemical synthesis or heavy metal extraction, and are hazardous to the health of workers, consumers and the public. Increased regulations and legislations regarding banning and lowering use of toxic antifouling agents is pushing industries to seek for green alternatives. However, no safe, eco-friendly and cost-competitive antifouling agents are currently available that meet the functional requirements to prevent attachment of organisms…until now. Cysbio have developed a proprietary cell-based manufacturing system for renewable production of sulfated compounds, of interest is the bio-based antifouling agent zosteric acid (ZA-bio). The team have leveraged advanced metabolic and enzyme engineering to optimize yields of ZA-bio, creating a cell factory system that can be upscaled to meet substantial chemical company demands. Cysbio enables a green and safe antifouling agent that is commercially viable for the first time, as ZA-bio is cost-competitive with existing toxic heavy metal and synthetic chemical alternatives. The ZABIO consortium consists a non-profit biological production upscaling manufacturer (Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant) and large multinational chemical and consumer goods company (Henkel) to fulfil the value chain and accelerate market entry of ZA-bio integrated products into the construction industry within two years (Q3 2022). As a result of this project ZA-bio will be commercially available as a chemical compound (sales by Cysbio) and initial contracts with Henkel will facilitate market growth by introduction of ZA-bio based sanitary sealants and façade coatings. The two year project will address EU health and environmental goals.
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2970 Horsholm
Danemark
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.