Winner of the BBIA Collaboration Award 2025

17th November was a brilliant day for Pulpex and for the whole group who contributed to the Innovate UK supported Pulpex UK Bioscience Initiative over the past two years.

The final cherry on top came with our work being recognised through the BBIA Demeter Prize for Collaboration and made even more special by receiving it while standing in the historic library of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

This achievement is a powerful reminder that collaboration is the catalyst for real innovation. Together, we’ve shown how advanced cellulose components and chitin extracts from agri-waste can be optimised and scaled into bio-based packaging with broad potential market applications. 

Pulpex directly addresses our over-reliance on single-use plastics and glass which have left unintended environmental consequences in just a few short decades. Together we can reverse course just as quickly by scaling technologies like Pulpex and the bioscience networks we need to lean on at scale. 

An amazing effort and a brilliant team outcome for everyone involved and thanks again to Innovate UK and its teams within the BBSRC and EPSRC that helped support and fuel this project.