PERPETUAL NEXT BIOCARBON INTERNATIONAL B.V

Their core work

Perpetual Next Biocarbon is a Dutch SME specializing in the thermal conversion of biomass into solid bioenergy carriers — particularly torrefied wood and biocarbon products. Their core commercial activity revolves around torrefaction, a process that converts raw woody biomass into a stable, energy-dense material that can substitute coal in industrial applications or serve as feedstock for biofuel production. In the TORERO project, they contributed to demonstrating torrefied wood as a large-scale feedstock for bioethanol, while in MUSIC they helped map and support market routes for multiple intermediate bioenergy carriers including pyrolysis-derived bio-oils and microbial oils. As a private company rather than a research institute, they bring an industrial and commercial perspective to biomass conversion consortia.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their earliest H2020 work centred tightly on one specific pathway: torrefied wood biomass as feedstock for bioethanol, pursued through the large-scale TORERO demonstration project starting in 2017. By 2019, with entry into MUSIC, their keyword profile broadened noticeably to include pyrolysis, torrefaction in a more generic market context, and microbial oil — suggesting a shift from demonstrating one technology to understanding the full landscape of intermediate bioenergy carriers and where each fits commercially. The trajectory points toward a company moving from technology demonstrator to market-positioning specialist across multiple biomass conversion routes.

They appear to be broadening from a single-technology torrefaction focus toward a cross-technology commercial role, positioning themselves as a market-side actor in the emerging solid and liquid bioenergy carrier supply chain.

How they like to work

Perpetual Next Biocarbon has participated exclusively as a consortium partner — never as a project coordinator — across both of their H2020 projects. Their network of 20 unique partners across 8 countries from just two projects suggests they work within moderately large, internationally diverse consortia rather than small closed groups. This profile is consistent with a commercial SME that contributes specific industrial expertise and supply-chain access to research-led consortia, rather than driving the scientific agenda itself.

They have collaborated with 20 distinct partner organisations across 8 countries through only two projects, indicating exposure to a broad European network for their size. No geographic concentration is evident beyond their Dutch base, and both projects drew in multi-country consortia typical of large-scale energy demonstration and coordination actions.

What sets them apart

Unlike university research groups or pure technology developers, Perpetual Next Biocarbon brings a private-sector, commercial operator's perspective to biomass conversion projects — they are in the business of producing and selling biocarbon, which means they understand supply chains, feedstock economics, and market barriers in ways that academic partners typically do not. Their dual involvement in both a large-scale technology demonstration (TORERO, EUR 635K) and a market uptake support action (MUSIC) shows they can contribute on both the technical and commercialisation sides of the same technology. For a consortium that needs an industrial biomass processing partner with real product experience rather than laboratory expertise, they are a strong candidate.

Highlights from their portfolio

• TORERO
  Their largest project by far (EUR 635,031), running 2017–2024, focused on large-scale demonstration of torrefied wood as a renewable bioethanol feedstock — a rare combination of thermochemical preprocessing and fermentation-route biofuels at industrial scale.
• MUSIC
  A Coordination and Support Action (CSA) rather than a technical project, MUSIC targeted the market side of bioenergy carriers — demonstrating that this SME contributes commercial and market intelligence, not just process technology.