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Elephant Vert Group was born in 2012, from the conviction that a new sustainable and inclusive agricultural model is possible. The objective is to make efficient, healthy and sustainable agriculture possible on a large scale. Partner of farmers, closest to the field, Elephant Vert seeks to meet all the needs related to their crops and their sectors by improving the quality and sustainability of production and harvests.

URD ABI is interested in the valorization of biomass through an approach combining biotechnologies, green chemistry and process engineering. The URD ABI is located in the European Center of Biotechnology and Bioeconomy, co-funded by the ERDF, the Grand Est Region, the Marne department and Urban Community of Grand Reims, at the heart of the Pomacle-Bazancourt biorefinery.

IMPROVE SAS is a platform fully dedicated to valorise plant based proteins in food, feed, cosmetics, biobased material and chemistry. IMPROVE SAS was recently founded through a public private partnership between major agro-industries and academic partners. Our objectives are:• to accelerate innovations and to boost market uptake of Plant Based Proteins,• to foster “radical innovation”, from R&D and deployment to market pull,• to deliver plant based proteins with better, or at least comparable characteristics (performance, price, availability, and sustainability) than animal or existing proteins.

MANAGE THE OSIRIS PROGRAM :• OSIRIS is an integrated R&D program, extending from the selection of suitable micro-organisms to the creation of solid state fermentation biocatalysts. The main targets of this ambitious program are industrial application such as increase the production yield of bioethanol, enhance the animal nutrition value of grain by-products, produce new solutions for arable crop bio-protection and create human heath products.PATENT: 1 - UTILISATION DE CYSTEINE ENDOPROTEASE POUR DIMINUER LE TROUBLE BOISSONS • Publication number: FR3 035 664 A1 • Inventors : Michel Lopez, Myriam Fliss & Didier Gilbert Marion

ACHIEVEMENTS: • Invention of co-agglomerates of sucralose and a polyol which enhance the sweetness perception of food such as chewing gum, pharmaceutical or cosmetic compositions.• Better understanding of crystalline sorbitol behaviour in food matrix and contribution to the setting-up of a sorbitol industrial production plant.• Involved in new dietary fibers creation.PATENTS:1 - COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR MAKING ALPHA-(1,2)-BRANCHED ALPHA-(1;6)-OLIGODEXTRANS • International publication number : WO 2010US33984 • Inventors : S. Potter, T. Naeye, A. Einerhand, M. Lopez, M. Remaud-Siméon, P. Monsan & E. Frédéric2 - AGGLOMERATES OF SUCRALOSE AND POLYOLS, AND THEIR USE IN CHEWING GUMS • International publication number : WO 2009108842 • Inventors : M. Lopez & W. Nehmer3 - FOOD PRODUCTS COMPRISING A SLOWLY DIGESTIBLE OR DIGESTION RESISTANT CARBOHYDRATE COMPOSITION • International publication number : US20060339306 • Inventors : Harrison et al.

ACHIEVEMENTS: • Developed a new enzyme application to prevent the protein-polyphenol interactions. This original approach has been patented and the ingredient is now being commercialized globally to improve the colloidal stability of beer. This new product is marketed under the name BREWERS CLAREX.PATENTS:1- METHOD FOR THE PREVENTION OR REDUCTION OF HAZE IN BEVERAGES• International publication number: WO 02/046381• Inventors : Michel Lopez & Luppo Edens2 - IMPROVED METHOD FOR THE PREVENTION OR REDUCTION OF HAZE IN BEVERAGES• International publication number: WO 03/104382• Inventors : Michel Lopez & Luppo Edens

ACHIEVEMENTS:• Identified in insect cell lines an enzymatic activity allowing the synthesis of an oligosaccharide with potential therapeutic value. Both enzyme and oligosaccharide have been patented.PATENT:1 - INSECT CELL ENZYMES WITH ALPHA-GALACTOSYL TRANSFERASE ACTIVITY AND THEIR USES • International publication number : WO 00/00595 • Inventors : M. Lopez, P. Delannoy, G. Devauchelle & JM. Quiot