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Bio-Bean Limited

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Bio-Bean Limited is a UK company with status active founded in 2013 based in South East England.

CRN
08378657
Founded
2013
Age
13

Overview

Legal name
BIO-BEAN LIMITED
Region
South East England
Registered address
C/O KRE CORPORATE RECOVERY LIMITED UNIT 8 THE AQUARIUM 1-7
KING STREET
READING
RG1 2AN
Insolvency history
No

Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

6 events
09 Nov
2024

Liquidation In Administration Progress Report

Insolvency

AM10 | Transaction MzQ0MjAwNTU3MGFkaXF6a2N4 | Paper/PDF filed

Published 19 Nov 2024 01:09

31 Mar
2024

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

22 Sep
2023

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

08 Sep
2022

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

30 Jun
2022

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

29 Jan
2013

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

7 awards
First funded
2013
Funded years
2013, 2015, 2016, 2020, 2021
Age at first award
0 years

Projects

2021 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Feasibility study into the potential to replicate bio-bean UK's industrial scale coffee recyclying operation in Belgium/the Netherlands

1 Dec 2021 to 28 Feb 2022

Awarded
£20,991
Total cost £29,987

This project seeks to ascertain the feasibility of replicating bio-bean UK's industrial scale spent coffee recycling factory operation in Belgium/the Netherlands. It will do this by mapping the companies that are the potential major sources of large volumes of spent coffee grounds (SCG) in North West Europe and enabling meetings to take place between bio-...

2021 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Commercialisation of flavour and fragrance products from food grade spent coffee grounds

19 Jan 2021 to 19 Oct 2022

Awarded
£400,000
Total cost £884,614

bio-bean is the world's largest spent coffee ground (SCG) recycling company, currently processing c.7,500 tonnes of SCG per annum. SCG is a high-volume waste problem in the order of over 500,000 tonnes in the UK alone. SCG contains a variety of valuable residual chemical compounds which are currently being combusted in our solid biofuel products (pellets ...

2020 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Developing the specification of dried spent coffee grounds as a sustainable material for use in a range of industries

1 Oct 2020 to 30 Jun 2021

Awarded
£149,412
Total cost £186,762

bio-bean is the world's largest spent coffee grounds (SCG) recycling company, currently reprocessing ~7,000 tonnes of SCG per annum into solid biofuels. The company has recently launched a natural flavour product extracted from food grade SCG. SCG is a high-volume waste problem in the order of over 500,000 tonnes in the UK alone, the disposal of which has...

2016 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

Feasibility study for an Advanced Biorefinery for the recycling of waste coffee grounds

1 Dec 2016 to 31 Mar 2017

Awarded
£20,174
Total cost £28,820

BB is the first company in the world to have industrialised the process of recycling waste coffee grounds into advanced biofuels. BB’s pioneering business model and innovative technology have attracted widespread attention in the energy, recycling and coffee industries as well as the mainstream media both nationally and internationally. This is BB’s first...

2015 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

COFFEE (Coffee Oil for Fragrance and Flavourings through Efficient Extraction from waste)

1 Oct 2015 to 31 Dec 2017

Awarded
£385,557
Total cost £642,597

Bio-Bean (BB) currently has contracts with coffee producers to receive their waste coffee grounds (WCG), diverting it from landfill and processing it into biomass pellets. High value coffee oil is imported and used in the UK for fragrance, flavouring, pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications. Coffee oil is currently extracted from virgin beans, an expensi...

2015 GRD Development of Prototype Lead participant

Advanced Biomass pellets from used Coffee grounds - Bio-Bean Ltd

1 Mar 2015 to 31 Dec 2016

Awarded
£241,159
Total cost £535,910

The UK coffee industry (cafés and instant coffee factories) produce 485kT/yr of Used Coffee Grounds (UCG), of which over 90% are landfilled or incinerated, costing the UK coffee industry £79.8m/yr (Fairtrade, 2012). Alongside the need to reduce landfill, the UK, EU and coffee companies need to valorise waste and reduce emissions but are struggling to meet...

2013 Vouchers Lead participant

bio-bean

1 Aug 2013 to 31 Jan 2014

Awarded
£5,000
Total cost £5,000

bio-bean is a cradle-to-cradle green energy company which collects used coffee grounds, and, through an innovative new process, converts them into both biodiesel and biomass pellets.

Product types

Collaborative R&D Feasibility Studies GRD Development of Prototype Vouchers