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We are proud to announce the launch of Celignis InSightAI, a powerful artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed by Celignis and integrated with the Celignis Database. It functions as a highly-customised chatbot, focused on providing insights and conclusions from the data displayed on the page. Once launched, and authorised by the user, it has access to the results presented on the Database page and the user can ask it questions about those results. 

A 30-second video outlining some of its functionality is provided below. 

Click here for additional information about Celignis InSightAI.

We are very happy to announce that Celignis has been successful in 2 project proposals submitted for funding to the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) programme. 

These projects will provide funding of 1m EUR to Celignis over the next few years and build upon the 4 projects (worth 1.6m EUR) we secured last year and the 3 projects (worth 1.5m EUR) secured in 2024. 

The new projects are expected to start in the second quarter of 2026. More details will be provided about these projects in due course.

Celignis is a Full Industry Member of the Biobased Industries Consortium (BIC), which helps to steer the focus of research for the CBE-JU programme.

Click here to read about all of our current research projects and here to read about our completed research projects.

We are pleased to today announce the release of Celignis USA's brochure for 2026. The 36-page pdf document covers our range of analytical and bioprocess development services, some price-lists, and details on our history.

Download it here.

We're delighted to announce that today marks the official launch date of Celignis USA. This latest development in the extension of the Celignis family will offer all of Celignis's services to US-based clients. The 10,000 sq. ft facility is located in Waterloo, Iowa and leverages Celignis's 11 years of expertise in the bioeconomy. 

Click here to read more about Celignis USA and our history leading to this point.

Press release accessible at: celignis.com/press_release_2025_11_05.php

We currently offer over 150 analysis packages, covering close to 400 different analytes. We have been proud to provide data to a diverse array of clients over the years, including many from research institutions. A recent literature search found a large number of peer-reviewed articles citing data provided by Celignis. These papers cover our bioprocess development services as well as analytical services across many different sectors (Biorefining, Biochar, Seaweed, Anaerobic Digestion, Bioenergy). Click here to see the details and abstracts of all these publications and here to see the publications that are co-authored by the Celignis team.

Celignis's Oscar and Fernando are today attending the 12-month review meeting of our CBE-JU research project MANUREFINERY. The event is taking place at the facility of project partner ENCO in Naples, Italy.

MANUREFINERY, entitled "Smart modular mobile biorefining of manure to zero-waste maximising resource recovery for feed and fertiliser bioingredients in rural areas" is one of the 7 ongoing CBE-JU projects that Celignis is currently involved in. Click here to read more about these projects.

Today we welcomed our partners from the EnXylaScope project to Limerick for the final in-person meeting of the project. The event is being held at the Limerick Strand Hotel and will include a tour of Celignis's Bioprocess and Analytical facilities.

EnXylaScope has been a hugely successful project, leading to multiple innovations in enzyme discovery and biomass processing, with Celignis making impactful developments in technologies for xylan extraction and modification. The project's success has led to a number of follow-on projects (BIONEER and PROMOFER) that involve demonstration of these technologies at higher TRL levels.

Lalitha is today presenting the outputs of our EnXylaScope project at the 34th European Biomass Conference & Exhibition (EUBCE) which is being held in Valencia, Spain.

The presentation, entitled "EnXylaScope: Unleashing xylan's potential with enzymes for a scope of consumer products", will provide a wide-ranging overview of the project which is now in its 4th year.

Today we registered sample number 50,000 on our internal LIMS system. Over the years we have analysed every kind of biomass sample imagineable and we look forward to achieving further milestones in the future as we continue to grow and expand our operations.

Today the Celignis family welcomed Dileep Raveendran-Nair to the fold. Dileep is a Mechanical Engineer with over 11 years of hands-on experience in biofuel, biochar, and bioproduct process engineering. His career has focused on the operation, maintenance, and optimization of large-scale bioprocess and bioenergy systems, integrating engineering precision with biotechnological innovation to advance sustainable industrial application.

At Celignis he will play a key-role ("Mechanical Engineer for Scaled-up Bioprocesses") in the development of our bioprocessing capabilities as we increase the Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) of our bioprocessing facility to TRL7 and cubic-metre reactors. 

Dileep will be involved in the development and implementation of Bioprocess Development Services for our clients and in the scaled-up bioprocessing activities in our numerous ongoing research projects. Additionally, Dileep will take the lead in Celignis's Biochar Production services for our clients. 

We are delighted to announce that Celignis has been successful in 4 project proposals submitted for funding to the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) programme. 

These projects will provide funding of 1.6m EUR to Celignis over the next few years and build upon the 3 projects (worth 1.5m EUR) we secured last year and the 4 previous CBE/BBI projects that Celignis participated in.

Details on the projects are provided below:

WoodVALOR - This RIA project concerns the valorisation of contaminated/post-consumer wood waste (WW) via: (i) thermal conversion to biochar; and (ii) fractionation followed by conversions to paints & coatings ingredients. Celignis is involved in the chemo-enzymatic fractionation of decontaminated wood (DW) to sequentially extract/purify lignin and hemicellulose, and in developing hemicellulose-based emulsifiers/stabilizers and binder monomers for industrial formulations. Additionally, Celignis is involved in metals/mineral recovery from decontamination wastewater using biochar produced in the project.

SOLRESS - This Innovation Action (TRL6) project concens the development of an integrated biorefinery to make a portfolio of bio-based solvents from 2G sugars and furans obtained from spent coffee grounds and woody biomass. Celignis's activities include (i) Design and optimisation of a high-cell-density, two-stage Clostridial process for butanol from hydrolysates; (ii) in-situ solvent recovery via membrane/ extractive set-ups; (iii) enzymatic hydrolysis of both feedstocks.

BIOS MATER - Also an Innovation Action (IA) project, BIOS MATER targets the development and demonstration of bio-based construction products (e.g., wall panels, flooring tiles, sandwich structures). Celignis leads materials development: chemo-enzymatic extraction and fractionation of lignin/xylan/cellulose from agri/forest residues, followed by advanced chemical modification of xylan and lignin (mixed-molecule grafting, acylation and silylation) to tailor hydrophobicity, flow/rheology (via DP control), mechanical strength, and fire resistance for injection-moulding/3D-printing.

LIGNOFUN - This IA project funnels lignin streams into high-value aromatics. Celignis leads WP4, putting crude low molecular weight (LMW) lignin through integrated membrane and solvent fractionation into fractions for bioactivity screening (antioxidant, UV-absorbance, antimicrobial, emulsion stabilization), followed by enzymatic/chemical grafting (e.g., sugars, fatty acids) to tune solubility/surface functionality and stability.

Celignis is a Full Industry Member of the Biobased Industries Consortium (BIC), which helps to steer the focus of research for the CBE-JU programme.

Click here to read about all of our current research projects and here to read about our completed research projects.

We are please to announce the publication of a peer-reviewed scientific article based on some of the research outputs of a Bioprocess Development Service (BDS) project undertaken by Celignis.

The article, entitled "Process development for efficient pectin extraction from tobacco residues and its characterisation" details the results of experiments targeting the optimised extraction of pectin from the laminae of a number of different varieties of tobacco plants. These tobacco-derived pectins were found to have a medium molecular weight and low methoxy content and our findings indicated that this feedstock could be suitable for the production of pectin with dietary applications.

Click here to view the publication.

Celignis personnel are today attending the kick-off meeting of the CBE-JU project MANUREFINERY at the facilities of the project's coordinator (ITA) in Zaragoza, Spain.

MANUREFINERY concerns the development of a small, decentralised, modular biorefinery concept for farms that converts manure and ammonia emissions into seven marketable bio-ingredients (animal-feed proteins, caproic acid, and fertiliser salts/ashes). The solution integrates fixed/mobile units across three valorisation lines (gas, liquid, solid) and a digital twin for optimisation and scale-up, targeting TRL6-7 validation on four EU demo farms. 

Celignis has a number of key roles in the project, including:

- Comprehensive analysis of the feedstocks and products of the process.

- Technoeconomic analysis for the three valorisation lines.

- Development of an extraction technology for grass.

PROMOFER, is an Innovation Action project funded by the CBE-JU, under topic HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023-IA-03 (Improve Fermentation Processes (Including Downstream Purification) To Final Bio-Based Products).

This project started in June 2024 with Celignis, an SME partner and full industry BIC member, playing a pivotal role in the project. Our core activities include undertaking the pre-treatment and hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass at scaled-up (TRL7, 1 m3) volumes. The resulting sugars are then provided to other partners for downstream fermentations.

Today Celignis's CIO Lalitha is attending the kick-off meeting of the project, at coordinator AIMPLAS's headquarters in Valencia, Spain.