On the 2nd of October Gaia Consulting launched the Gaia Biorefiner, a service that screens the environmental sustainability of bioeconomy innovations, business ideas and investment opportunities. The service was launched at the leading European bioeconomy event, the European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology and the Biobased Economy, EFIB 2013, at Brussels.

The Gaia Biorefiner has been piloted with the Finnish Bioeconomy Cluster FIBIC. The service aims to become the globally most relevant method for assessing the sustainability of biomass-based value chains.

Read more of the new service from Gaia's web-pages.

More information:

• Gaia Biorefiner webpage: www.gaia.fi/biorefiner
• Tiina Pursula, Business Director, Gaia Consulting Oy, tel. +358 40 514 9507, email: firstname.lastname@gaia.fi
• Päivi Luoma, Leading Consultant, Gaia Consulting Oy, tel. +358 50 430 8866, email: firstname.lastname@gaia.fi