Activatec Ltd

As part of the Deep Purple EU Project, we are working to produce Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), a group of biodegradable plastics, from wastewater streams. These PHAs can curb reliance on conventional, non-biodegradable plastics, which are harmful to the environment and necessitate large landfill sites.

Furthermore, producing materials from wastewater streams requires significantly less energy than creating synthetic and artificial ingredients than through other means, lowering the emission of harmful greenhouse gases while valorising by-products that usually go to waste: helping contribute to the circular bioeconomy.

In charge of the optimisation of the conditions and techniques to extract and purify both PHAs and Ectoine, a bio-based product used in sun cream, our engineers will use scale-up technologies and develop strategies for PHA and Ectoine production, analysing the economic viability of the value chains proposed.

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