Cellucomp Limited

The UoE has discovered a unique enzyme which enables new functionalities to be introduced into cellulosic materials and patented its use for industrial applications. CelluComp produces microfibrillated cellulose from vegetable plant waste. This project will combine these technologies to offer enhanced materials for applications in paper-based packaging to...

Food and drink packaging (\>$300Bn/year global market) relies on plastics and a variety of chemicals now considered hazardous to health and dangerous to the environment. These chemicals usually impart barrier properties, non-stick surfaces, flame retardancy and antimicrobial activities which are required for food/drink packaging. New regulations are being...

The '_Pulpex UK BioScience Initiative_' will help Pulpex Ltd fully achieve its medium-term ambition by replacing its existing petrochemical-based barrier coatings with truly sustainable coatings as barriers to water and foods. The barrier coatings are applied on the interior of the Pulpex sustainable bottle. Sustainable materials are the future of food pa...

The need for alternative low carbon building materials is clear. We will investigate the potential of using novel low energy binders that could be used as alternatives to cement-based products or traditional clay-fired bricks; both having high embodied carbon and energy. We propose here to investigate the optimum combinations of ingredients to ascertain w...

CelluComp will use its fully sustainable microfibrilated cellulose from vegetable waste streams - called Curran, to provide the specific barrier properties required for food packaging, without the use of plastic and/or fluorochemicals. Curran will be used as a mix in the paper pulp and as an additive for coatings. Along with outside consultancy, CelluComp...

Due to emergent pandemic threats the global use of personal protection equipment (PPE) has hugely increased (in particular face masks). Most of this PPE is single use, contains plastics, is not easily recyclable and generally is disposed of via landfill or discarded into the environment. It is estimated that if each person in the UK uses a single disposab...

Project leader CelluComp, a Scottish-based material science company producing microfibrilated cellulose (MFC) from waste streams of root vegetables, will team up with its partners and customers to design the next level of sustainable food packaging. There is a global issue with the use of plastics in packaging, often ending up in landfill and littering th...

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The REMAC project aims to demonstrate the 30% reduction of sugar and or fat and the addition of fibre to confectionary, bakery and sauce products. This will be achieved through the use of highly functional natural cellulosic materials produced from root vegetable sources as substitute for the sugar or fat. The success of this project will make a significa...

Curran®, a material formed by the extraction of nano-cellulose fibres from root vegetables, offers exceptional rheological and mechanical properties for numerous applications, such as paints and coatings, personal care products, cosmetics. This study is to better understand the structure building properties of Curran®, in water based coating formulations....

Arraying of chemical groups and functional peptides on the surface of engineered, safe (non-infectious) virus-like nanoparticles (VNPs), permits the formation of biomimetic multifunctional and highly reactive nanoscale structures. This project seeks to develop the next generation functional 3D nanomaterials we via the incorporation of such multifunctional...