In this webinar we will explore the opportunities and challenges for the food manufacturing sector to improve its financial and environmental sustainability by developing the production of higher value products such as chemicals, materials and fuels from food production side streams.

Yorkshire is a national stronghold for innovation in this area due to its high concentration of major food manufacturers, and because of specialist research and scale-up facilities at the University of York. It also helps meet our ambitions to become a carbon zero circular region: Circular Yorkshire.

The webinar is organised by BioVale as part of the THYME Project in partnership with Make it York for York Business Week and York and North Yorkshire LEP for Circular Yorkshire Month.

The event is open to all to attend.

The webinar will:

• Showcase how food manufacturers in the region innovate to add value to food processing by products .
• Highlight regulatory and policy challenges and opportunities.
• Provide insight into valorisation types and technologies, facilities, expertise and capabilities in the region and gaps in the market.

Agenda

09:00 Elspeth Bartlet, Head of Communications, BioVale

09:05 Nina Sweet OBE, Specialist Advisor, WRAP

09:20 Andrew Griffiths, Head of Value Chain Sustainability, Nestlé

09:35 Joe Bennett, Lead Technologist, Biorenewables Development Centre

09:45 Meryem Benohoud, Technical Director at Keracol

09:55 Q and A

Catalysing collaboration in food waste valorisation workshop

12th November 10.30- 12:00

Following the webinar BioVale will be hosting a partnership building workshop. The aim of the workshop is to act as a catalyst for new research and innovation collaborations based on increasing the value obtained from food processing co- and by- products.

The workshop will focus on major feedstocks from food manufacturing produced in the region, as identified in a mapping project by BioVale.

To apply to attend the catalysing collaboration workshop, after the webinar, please register here: Collaborating in food by products and processing waste valorisation workshop

The partnering event will feature facilitated discussion among small groups of participants and so places are limited.