{"id":10535,"date":"2025-11-28T08:04:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=10535"},"modified":"2025-11-28T08:04:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:04:41","slug":"eu-sets-new-bioeconomy-plan-to-scale-bio-based-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=10535","title":{"rendered":"EU sets new bioeconomy plan to scale bio-based industries\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The European Commission has approved a new Strategic Framework for a Competitive and Sustainable EU (European Union) Bioeconomy, outlining measures to speed up the industrial roll-out of bio-based materials and technologies, including those used in packaging.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The plan focuses on widening the use of renewable biological resources from land and sea to reduce fossil-based inputs, bolster supply security and support more circular, low-carbon production models.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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According to the Commission, the EU bioeconomy was worth up to \u20ac2.7tn ($3.12tn) in 2023 and provided 17.1 million jobs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bio-based plastics, fibres and chemicals are already present in sectors such as packaging, automotive components and personal care.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The framework aims to push bio-based solutions from the lab to the market by boosting innovation and investment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Planned actions include simplifying regulation, speeding up authorisations for new products and aligning EU funding with bio-based technologies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A proposed Bioeconomy Investment Deployment Group would work to assemble a pipeline of investable projects and draw in private finance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

To foster lead markets, the commission has pinpointed areas with significant potential: bio-based plastics, fibres, textiles, chemicals, fertilisers, construction materials, advanced fermentation and permanent storage of biogenic carbon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The strategy also suggests establishing a Bio-based Europe Alliance under which European companies would collectively purchase \u20ac10bn of bio-based solutions by 2030.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ensuring sustainable biomass supply is central to the framework.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The commission stresses maintaining broad self-sufficiency while keeping forests, soils, water and ecosystems within ecological thresholds.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Planned incentives target farmers and foresters who protect soil health, enhance carbon storage and support sustainable biomass production.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The strategy also envisages partnerships to strengthen Europe\u2019s role in global bio-based markets, limit resource risks and improve industrial resilience.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new framework updates and redirects the EU Bioeconomy Strategy launched in 2012 and reviewed in 2018 and 2022, placing stronger emphasis on industrial scale-up, competitiveness and resilience.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Clean, Just and Competitive Transition executive vice-president Teresa Ribera stated: \u201cThe bioeconomy holds the answer to combining prosperity with environmental protection. It restores ecosystems while leading on biotechnologies.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Finnish-based material solutions company UPM welcomed the EU\u2019s new Bioeconomy Strategy, calling it a decisive step to boost growth, innovation, competitiveness and climate neutrality through renewable and circular bio-based solutions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The plan focuses on widening the use of renewable biological resources from land and sea to reduce fossil-based inputs.<\/p>\n

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