Nouryon launches bio-based polymer for ‘weightless’ hair styling
In the Netherlands, Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals) expanded its offering to customers in the personal care market with a bio-based polymer, Amaze SP,...
Future Food Today cookbook brings algae and insects to kitchen table
In Denmark, IKEA’s research and design laboratory, known as SPACE10, released a new cookbook that features recipes with algae, seaweed, insects, spirulina and other...
Sappi Opens New Demo Plant for Biomaterials Expansion
In South Africa, Sappi has a new demo plant up and running at its Ngodwana mill in Mpumulanga to strengthen and grow their business...
Life exists in North and South Poles, but we aren’t talking about Santa
In the United Kingdom, University of York researchers found microbes living in the icy north and south poles for the first time. It was...
Plant based ingredients target skin conditions caused by blue light
In France, BASF’s Care Creations presented several new active ingredients that were derived from the research activities of the company’s innovation platforms on epigenetics,...
Arctic Biomaterials wins 2018 Innovation Award
In Germany, the Innovation Award “Bio-based Material of the Year 2018” goes to Arctic Biomaterials from Finland for degradable glass fibre reinforced PLA. The...
Busting the biodegradable balloon bubble
In Massachusetts, a senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Chris Reddy, burst some bubbles when he said that Bunch O Balloon’s claim that...
Need holiday gift ideas? How about a 100% blood-based jewelry box?
In the Netherlands, blood leftover from meat slaughterhouses is being used by Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Basse Stittgen for his new collection of objects...
BioSolar signs development agreement with Ferroglobe
In California, BioSolar, Inc., a developer of breakthrough energy storage technology and materials, announced that they executed a joint development agreement with Silicio Ferrosolar...
Fashion For Good expands with four new innovators
In the Netherlands, Fashion for Good welcomes four new innovators to their Scaling Programme: Mango Materials, Algalife, Nature Coatings and Sonovia (previously Nano Textile).
Their...