Agency for the bio-based economy
Exploration | Product development | Production at scale | Go to market
Do you want to…
turn your waste and side streams into sustainable products and revenue?
find a bio-based alternative for a raw material that’s no longer available or affordable?
improve production processes with nature inspired-solutions?
get a new, bio-based product to the market?
Get inspired
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Syros: Valuing every bit of avocados
Can we make new ingredients from avocado pits and peels? Definitely.
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Citribel: Applications for citric acid's co-products
Citribel produces 100.000 ton of citric acid per year, with 200.000 ton of co-products. Aware of the inherent value and uniqueness of the components contained therein, they contacted GLIMPS.bio to find product applications and take them to the market.
Picture: Yann Bertrand
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Pro Natura: Valorizing excess Japanese Knotweed
How can Pro Natura valorize excess Japanese Knotweed and help to restore biodiversity in Flanders? We pulled on our labcoats and helped to find out.
Picture: Aaron Lapeirre
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Narture: From bread surplus to textile pigment
A passionate engineer and visual artist, Annabelle was frustrated with the lack of environment-friendly pigments available on the market. We helped her kickstart an upcycling business to meet this need.
Picture: Narture
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Circular coffee soap: grounds, oil & scrub
Plastic-free, vegan, all-natural, high-quality, low-carbon soap produced with all components of leftover coffee grounds, made possible with our social economy partners.
Picture: tekstenbeeld.be
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Mycelium-grown sound insulaton
Sometimes we cannot resist conducting some research of our own. Want to find out how we used mycelium to grow beautiful sound insulation tiles?
Picture: Frederik Van Allemeersch
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Circular Flanders: Mapping urban waste streams
To understand how we can repurpose and upcycle urban waste streams, we mapped the leftover bread and coffee grounds of Ghent and proposed a circular alternative.
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From waste to revenue, from fossil to bio-based.
We’ll help you from A to Z.
Proud clients
“GLIMPS.bio is exceptionally good at coming up with quick, concrete steps that propel the process. Who do we know who can help us? Let's just give them a call. Experimenting, questioning and taking small steps forward with a market-oriented, uninhibited view on things.”
— Sylvia Gilis, Director at Citribel
“GLIMPS.bio helped us work out our business case and helped us find financing for the first phases of experimentation and business development. They also helped us get connected to the right suppliers and production partners. Perhaps most important of all, they were a reliable, like-minded sparring partner, giving moral support and encouragement.”
— Annabelle Cassiman, Founder of Narture
“We just needed to know: can we grow mycelium on Japanese Knotweed choppings? How? Will it sell? GLIMPS.bio was excellent at providing the hands-on research we needed. I’d dare say this inspired our way of working for all the innovation work we’ve been doing since.”
— Nathalie Devriendt, Biomass & Innovation expert at Pro Natura
Everyone’s trash can be everyone’s treasure