CLIB
Networking biotechnology – Creating sustainability
CLIB, the Cluster Industrial Biotechnology, is an internationally active open innovation cluster of large companies, SMEs, investors, academic institutes and other stakeholders active in biotechnology and the circular bioeconomy. CLIB has its core in NRW and is set up as an association comprising over 120 organisations in Germany and Europe.
CLIB's mission is to offer all members and stakeholders added value based on industrial biotechnology through its work in six strategic pillars. The members of the cluster work together across disciplines, sectors, regions and nations to create sustainable products and processes.
Products & topics
- Industrial biotechnology
- Platform chemicals
- Materials
- Active ingredients
- Food and animal feed
Industries
- Cosmetics
- Food and animal feed
- Construction
- Textiles
- Chemicals
Feedstock
- Sugar beet and other agricultural products, side and residual material flows from the food and animal feed industry, wood, plastics, CO2
Processes
- Biotech: fermentation, enzymatic, bacteria, yeast, algae
- Mechanical processes: Fibres etc.
- Thermal processes: Pyrolysis, solvolysis, gasification
- Plant engineering
- Analytics/quality control
Projects
Stakeholders
The six strategic pillars of the cluster's work combine all the necessary aspects to promote the establishment of a sustainable industrial bioeconomy:
Networking & Partnering
Improving Framework Conditions
Accelerating Tech Development
Facilitating Scale-Up
Developing Bioeconomists
Fostering Entrepreneurship
CLIB is active in a variety of projects at state, national and European level to develop activities within the strategic pillars, expand the network and create innovation opportunities for its members.