In Austria, Lenzing has teamed up with NFW (Natural Fiber Welding Inc.) to offer TENCEL branded fibers as another backer option for NFW’s patented plant-based technology, MIRUM. MIRUM is a categorically unique material class, perfect for luxury accessories, fashion, footwear, automotive, and home goods. TENCEL Lyocell and Modal fibers are derived from sustainable wood sources […]
In Iowa, the Polymer and Food Protection Consortium at Iowa State University said it is working with some of the largest companies in Iowa and around the world to help make their products safer and more sustainable. The consortium’s mission is to create new uses for waste materials that would otherwise be landfilled. That includes […]
In San Francisco, renewable footwear pioneer Allbirds has expanded its material slate into rice hulls and citrus peels with a new sneaker called Plant Pacer. Available for $135, the vegan leather shoe is made with Mirum, an agricultural waste-based material produced by Natural Fiber Welding, an Illinois-based startup Allbirds invested $2 million in last year. […]
Today, in part 3 of our series The Extraordinary remaking of Ordinary Things, let’s begin with the not well-known problem of the paper coffee cup, that it leaks and loses rigidity when hot, unless you put a coating on it, one made of polyethylene, and that coating makes it very, very difficult to break down […]
By Sam A. Rushing, President – Advanced Cryogenics Special to The Digest BACKGROUND The CO2 industry expands organically, say 3% annually in some markets. The best way to grow more rapidly in the industry, is via the development and implementation of new and unique applications in a wide variety of markets. CO2 applications, of a […]
In Louisiana, reports surfaced in Alexandria’s TownTalk online paper that Sundrop Fuels has struck an agreement to sell the 1200-acre site where it once planned to build its $450 million, 50 million gallon capacity first commercial plant to produce green gasoline from woody biomass. The company selected the site, the former location of the Cowboy […]
Tired of corn, corn, corn or cane, cane, cane? There are 101 feedstocks in the biofuels canon. Here’s what’s up with each of them, and all of them. In Florida, Biofuels Digest released its annual Guide to biofuels feedstocks, tracking 10,658 items published in the Digest in the past 48 months on 101 feedstocks for […]
In Nebraska, New Zealand’s Xylemer BioProducts is going to open a production facility in Kearney to produce its biomass-based resins. The main feedstock for the resins is DDGS, which will mostly be supplied by the Kearney Area Ag Producers Alliance, but trials are ongoing using sugarbeet pulp and rice hulls. The facility should come online […]
In California, Plastic News reports that Micromidas is looking to use cardboard, rice hulls and paper sludge to produce a bio-based PET. Micromidas’s approach is to directly process their non food biomass directly into PET as the process is cellulose based, not sugar based. Micromidas is looking to have their pilot scale built in the […]
Address: 10877 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 600, Los Angeles, CA 90024 Year founded: 1981 Company description: The Company’s Rentech-SilvaGas and Rentech-ClearFuels biomass gasification process can convert multiple biomass feedstocks into synthesis gas (syngas) for production of renewable fuels, power and chemicals. Combining the gasification process with Rentech’s application of syngas conditioning and clean-up technology and the patented […]
