INN-PRESSME aims at developing and implementing a sustainable OITB to support European companies to scale up their nano-enabled biomaterials and processes from TRL 4-5 to 7. It will focus on (nano)cellulose, bioplastics and natural fibres, combined with nanotechnology approaches to tailor bio-based materials with properties and functionalities (barrier, antibacterial properties, improved corrosion or chemical resistance, etc.) that equal or outperform their fossil counterparts at competitive prices. INNPRESSME gathers 16 pilot lines, organized in routes and processes for feedstock conversion (PLA, PHA, fibre-based, cellulose-based), formulation and transformation and processing of bio-based material to high added-value products.
Standardization is certainly a tool that can support the project to facilitate scaling-up the products covered by this project and could also be a way to contribute to expand the results of INN-PRESSME by providing a summary of best practices or guidance on OITB services. The way that the role of standards in the project is structured responds to three stages:
- Analysis of the existing standards and ongoing works identifying possible relations between INN-PRESSME activities and this selection of standards and works. The organizations, technical bodies or groups, where the works are developed, are to be also identified.
- Contact the identified entities, where standards or works exist, to explain INN-PRESSME project trying to raise awareness and opening ways to further collaboration in view of the progress and results of INN-PRESSME.
- Prepare and perform a contribution to standardization based on INN-PRESSME results looking to the higher possible impact into standardization.
In this aim, this deliverable summarizes the existing standardization landscape, including the standards and ongoing projects, the technical bodies where these documents are developed and maintained and serves as the basis for next steps such us raising awareness of INN-PRESSME results to these bodies.