AGROinLOG - Demonstration of innovative integrated biomass logistics centres for the Agro-industry sector in Europe

DESCRIPTION
Taking advantage of their facilities, equipment and knowledge to integrate IBLCs business in existing agro-industries can turn into a 18% reduction of the cost that would imply building the business from the scratch. Specifically, the first analyses on pilot agro-industries have shown that the savings achieved could be as high as € 1-2 million over the first ten years. In certain cases, that figure could exceed € 10 million.
Main challenges are based on being able to integrate logistics, harvesting and equipment in food and non-food applications, where the project is focused; ensuring marketability of the final bio-commodities. This project will contribute towards employment stability –seasonality avoidance-, rural development and EU bio-economy goals.
Main challenges are based on being able to integrate logistics, harvesting and equipment in food and non-food applications, where the project is focused; ensuring marketability of the final bio-commodities. This project will contribute towards employment stability –seasonality avoidance-, rural development and bio-economy goals.
OBJETIVES
AGROinLOG is born with a short-term business perspective, focused on delivering ready to market full scale operation IBLCs. For achieving this vision, the following specific objectives have been established:
- To demonstrate the food and non-food business integration in three European agro-industries
- To promote a multi-actor collaboration based on innovation to foster the business models adoption by the agro-industrial sector
- To obtain the most feasible and promising IBLCs implementation options for 6 agro-industrial sectors in Europe based on their state, potential synergies and chances to adopt new business of non-food biomass and bio-commodities and intermediate bioproducts
- To ensure a successful exploitation and dissemination of the project, establishing the required basis for its market uptake and replication
CIRCE´s ROLE
On the technical side, CIRCE will be the leader of the definition of the business models and its exploitation strategy for the agro-industries
Specially, CIRCE will play an important role in the demonstration of an IBLC producing herbaceous-wood pellets inside an animal feed industry, participating actively in activities such as the planning of the demonstration the monitoring and evaluation of the demos, the preparation of facilities for the new activity or the test activities for implementing the new business.
CIRCE will also take part in the definition of generic strategies for the development of future IBLCs, as well as in boosting participation and further replication in other regions.