The Plant Based Summit – The biobased solutions international conference & Business meetings was held on September 22nd – 24th 2021, in Reims with LIGNICOAT partners; VITO and Ecoat attended the event. This year conference is the 6th edition and it focuses on biobased solutions with a deep emphasis on enhancing bio-based product development through a market-driven approach. Ecoat’s CEO, Olivier Choulet, attended this summit, delivering a speech on sustainability; “Moving towards bio-based architectural coatings with outstanding performances”. VITO´s leading researcher Dr. Karolien Vanbroekhoven presented Biorizon´ s running projects, with LIGNICOAT project being included among them.

New Publication on Green Antimicrobials from Hop Extracts
The LIGNICOAT project team is pleased to announce the publication of a new open-access article titled “Green Antimicrobials: Innovative Applications of Hops Extracts as Biocontrol Agents” in the journal Pathogens (Impact Factor: 3.3). Led by researchers from the Instituto Tecnológico Agrario