Arkema
With its unique expertise in materials science, Arkema shapes materials to meet the accelerating demand for innovative, sustainable materials, driven by the challenges of new energies, new technologies, resource scarcity, mobility, and growing urbanization. Structured around three coherent and complementary segments dedicated to Specialty Materials (Adhesives, Advanced Materials and Coating Solutions), which account for 92% of its sales, and an Intermediates segment benefiting from competitive and global product lines, the Group achieves sales of €9.5 billion. Driven by the collective energy of its 21,100 employees, Arkema is present in nearly 55 countries worldwide.
Bioeconomy for Change
Bioeconomy for Change (B4C), as the leading bioeconomy cluster in France and in Europe, is specialized in the accompaniment to enterprises for the innovation, industrialization, and promotion of their know-how. With more than 500 members, B4C is highly recognized in Europe and France for its high knowledge notably regarding the realization of the dissemination, communication, and competitive intelligence activities within collaborative projects.
BITREZ
Bitrez is a resin manufacturer that offers an extensive range of highly innovative materials developed for a broad range of markets. The company works with a high standard of customer service and flexibility with controlled design, development and implementation programmes to give their customers the right solutions for their resin requirements. Since 1982, Bitrez has developed a reputation for providing quality products with exceptional service.
CETIM
The CETIM is the technical centre of the French mechanical industry, serving its transformation. It brings the best of research to French manufacturers and offers a global solution of consulting and engineering services. As a co-founder of Mecallians, which brings together all the strengths of the French industrial mechanical engineering sector, with Carnot accreditation and as a member of the CTI network, its more than 1,100 experts, doctors, engineers and technicians are helping to transform the production ecosystem in France and abroad, for the benefit of an increasingly sovereign, positive and sustainable industry, capable of meeting the major energy and environmental challenges of our time.
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
The Technical University of Denmark’s department, “DTU Wind and Energy Systems”, is a leading university institution employing around 370 staff focusing on advancing wind energy and intelligent power systems. The department is internationally recognised for its cutting-edge research and innovation, aiming to create sustainable, cost-effective solutions that impact society and the energy sector. DTU offers excellent education programmes and operates state-of-the-art testing facilities, allowing research on materials, turbine systems, and energy infrastructure.
Eco-Technilin
Founded in 1998 by a local farmers’ cooperative, the company’s mission was to make better use of the textile industry’s short fibre. In 2008, the company diversified its customer portfolio and broadened its field of activity. Another change in its strategy led Eco-Technilin to diversify its activities by capturing and retaining the added value created locally from agricultural resources. Since then, Eco-Technilin has merged its activities with the start-up Linéo to present a structured and comprehensive range of composites products and opened a new factory in Poland to support the growth of its customers in Eastern Europe. Eco-Technilin is known in the natural fibre composite community for their FlaxTape®, a uni-directional fibre arrangement.
HEMP-ACT
HEMP-ACT develops technical and sustainable solutions for textile hemp: long, medium and short fibre. While the economy of scutched flax and hemp is located in Normandy and Flanders, HEMP-ACT is launching disruptive hemp textile fibre extraction technologies, which can relatively easily be exploited in other territories. Its expertise ranges from setting up of local supply chain to the using of hemp in the textile, composite and all types of bio-based products.
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Coordinator)
KU Leuven has about 40 years of background in the research on composite materials and currently employs about 60 researchers in this field, of which about 10 focus on bio-composite materials under supervision of the project coordinator (Prof. Aart van Vuure). KU Leuven has also been involved in many European project consortia, in the same expertise field. Important focal points of its research are on bio-composite (moisture) durability and fibre-matrix interfaces, that will also be its contribution to SSUCHY-Next. The research group Sustainability Assessment of Materials and Circular Economy has long-standing expertise in the field of Life Cycle Analysis and participated in various projects concerning bio-composites. The synergistic combination of the expertise and experiences gained from the first SSUCHY project along with the new advancements in the LCA methodologies over the recent years, will allow the Sustainability Assessment of Materials and Circular Economy team to significantly contribute to the sustainability of the SSUCHY-NEXT project, while simultaneously leading and propelling the advancements in the life cycle management methodologies beyond the current state-of-the-art. The project management will be supported by the knowledge transfer unit of KU Leuven – KU Leuven R&D, who have managed over the years multiple European projects and overseen the creation of more than 140 spin-off companies.
Linificio e Canapificio Nazionale
Linificio e Canapificio Nazionale Srl SB, headquartered in Bergamo, has been a global leader in sustainable, European production of refined linen and hemp yarns for 150 years. With 950 employees across facilities in Italy, Lithuania, and Tunisia, it produces 5,000 tons of yarn annually. Owned by the Marzotto Group, 60% of its sales are domestic. The company has participated in European projects like SSUCHY and excels in hemp and flax fiber production and spinning technology.
Materia Nova
Materia Nova is a technology accelerator for responsible innovation, ensuring technology transfer between fundamental research and industry. As innovation and research centre of the University of Mons, Materia Nova contributes actively to developing solutions to societal challenges, notably the energy transition and the deployment of the circular economy. Since 2000, Materia Nova has been adding meaning to R&D activities using three main levers: creative intelligence, contextual intelligence and collective intelligence.
NPSP
NPSP develops and supplies innovative environmentally friendly composite materials and products for public space, construction, design and mobility. The SME uses bio-based and circular raw materials as much as possible, which can be reused after a long-life cycle. NPSP realises beautiful solutions in bio-based composites and uses high-tech production technology for everyday applications in natural fibre-reinforced plastics. In the previous project SSUCHY, the NPSP team developed a bio-scooter demonstrator.
Olsen Wings
Olsen Wings specializes in small wind turbine blades. The company builds on the Danish tradition and know-how within the field, and its products have been developed and designed over the years with the emphasis on quality and excellence in construction. Olsen Wing blades are innovative products, developed with help from some of the leading experts within wind turbine blades. Olsen Wings has a creative approach in working with blade technology and develops products that last. The company works with the most modern technology and automation processes for machining and casting wind turbine blades.
Terre de Lin
Terre de Lin is a cooperative specialising in growing and processing fibre flax, from seed to fibre. Its 700 farmer-members and 220 employees share the same passion for flax, the demand for quality and innovation. They are committed to preserving their specific know-how while developing their production practices, respect for the environment and commitment to society. TERRE DE LIN is based in Haute-Normandie, a unique region to produce high-quality fibre flax. The cooperative accounts for 15% of the world’s flax production. It is a major player upstream in the fibre flax sector.
tu delf
TU Delft is the oldest and largest public technical university in the Netherlands. In the 2022 QS World University Rankings, it is ranked among the top 10 universities in the world for engineering and technology. The institution was founded in 1842, with the main aim of training civil servants. It expanded its research and teaching programme over time, becoming a polytechnic in 1864 and an institute of technology in 1905 – making it a university.
UBFC
UBFC is a group of institutions of the Bourgogne Franche-Comté (BFC) region fulfilling a dual mission of higher education and research across various scientific fields. The group includes, among others:
- UFC – University of Franche‐Comté, a French multi-disciplinary university founded in 1423, comprising 28 research units with expertise ranging from environmental and health sciences, human and social sciences, to engineering sciences.
- SUPMICROTECH-ENSMM – École nationale supérieure de mécanique et des microtechniques (ENSMM), a public higher education and research institute that trains multidisciplinary engineers with a strong focus on mechatronics and microsystems.
Research activities are conducted within joint research laboratories. The researchers involved in SSUCHY-Next project are part of the FEMTO-ST Intstitue which integrates departments specializing in mechanics, materials science, mechatronics, electronics, acoustics, opto-electronics, energy, and time-frequency systems.
Université de Technologie Tarbes Occitanie Pyrénées
With about 1200 students, UTTOP is a public school that has been training general engineers in the fields of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Engineering for 60 years. It has built its identity over the years to become a well-recognized centre in mechanical engineering and manufacturing. UTTOP has been involved in several European projects and was recently involved in the first SSUCHY project (2017-2022). The work performed at UTTOP will be coordinated by Prof Pierre Ouagne who leads the fibre, textile and (bio)composite group composed of 8 people. The group has developed a particular expertise on plant fibre at the intersection between agronomy, materials science and mechanical engineering. The group particularly deals with fibre extraction, mechanical and morphological characterisation of fibre and preparation of textile products.
Woodoo
Woodoo is a company with a strong patent position on products prepared from wood-based scaffolds. The company specialises in transforming wood at the molecular scale, turning it into sustainable high-performance material alternatives to steel, aluminium and concrete for cladding and structural building applications. Their product, STACK, is crafted by transforming juvenile, low-grade and decaying wood into a cutting-edge material. Woodoo’s technology has already gained recognition from the most prominent customers across construction sector.