BioComposites Centre

Turning waste into colour ♻️🍄‍ Dr Paul Baker has been exploring how biomass waste streams can produce natural pigments. Progress to date has laid the foundations for a new industry to exploit this innovative idea. Part of the Waste4Colour project funded by the Welsh Government

Qiuyun represented the BioComposites Centre at the Materials Research Exchange 2026, attending key sessions and networking with researchers, industry leaders and innovators. Great to see our team actively engaging with such an important event in the UK materials community 👏

A great way to start 2026 with a published mini-review from Paul and colleagues at the BioComposites Centre! It can be used for biofuels, enzymes & fertiliser, supporting circular bio-based systems 🍄‍🟫 Well done to Paul and the team on this output. 🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Fantastic to see Jennifer Woods representing the BC at the FM3 conference in Birmingham. She shared key findings from her PhD and took part in technical sessions at M3P3, contributing to insightful discussions and networking across the materials community. Well done, Jenny! 👏

Celebrating #NaturalFibreInsulationWeek 🌿 From recycled wood fibres with MDF Recovery to exploring wood fibre, sheep’s wool and miscanthus, our team at BC has tested a wide range of natural insulation materials. Got a new insulation product that needs testing? Get in touch 🤝

Great to be at the Royal Welsh Show for the launch of the Timber Industrial Strategy by @WelshGovernment 🌲 A bold step for a resilient Wales. Six priorities outlined by Deputy FM Huw Irranca-Davies. Excited to support the Welsh timber sector!🔗 gov.wales/timber-industr…

Yesterday, the final quarterly meeting of the successful PlantSea Pack project was held. The research on natural biodegradable packaging materials soluble in water and made from seaweeds has moved to the next level!

It’s great to see both staff and students of BC graduating today, Sean Baxter, our pulp and paper researcher and Carlo Kupfernagel (now at IHD Dresden) both graduated with their PHD’s from @BangorUni

At our @Dysonfarming Research site at Nocton Lincolnshire our biodiversity experiments are underway Pictured below is one of the hoverfly attractant capsule attached to top of cane, and yellow water trap for insect recording at the bottom. The potato crop just emerging.

Today Morwenna Spear presented at #plasticslive2024 and talk around developing biopolymer and BioComposites.. it was great to bump into old friends and new @innovateuk

Always good to present to an enthusiastic and informed audience. @BCBangor @BangorUni

Today Simon Curling and PhD student Jenny Woods presented work on the use of pulp and paper at the #transFIRehub final conference #kess

Exciting discussions with PlasmaFresh today! Learning how the surface of paper can be modified using plasma to improve its performance as a packaging material @BCBangor

Yesterday we said farewell to our Director, Rob Elias, we wish him well in his new adventures with MDF recovery!!

Great to hear the updates from @PulpexPackaging at #MRE2024 in London. Nice to hear how we are helping with our pulp and paper expertise! @UKCPNetwork @innovateuk

Today Rob Elias and Graham Ormondroyd are at MRE come and find us to say hello!

This is why it is so important to condition your wood based panel samples before testing. Read all about it @woodsciman in #WBPI wbpionline.com

Morwenna and Carlo are presenting at #ecwm11 ‘Ready for another busy and inspiring day at ECWM11 in the beautiful Auditorium of S. Apollonia, Florence’

We are very excited as our new steam boiler has arrived! This 21bar boiler raises steam for all our pilot plant processes!

Great to help out here working in collaboration #PlantSea with @innovateUK funds