In Germany, lab-grown cow and pork fat pioneer Cultimate Foods has shuttered operations, four months after filing for bankruptcy and expressing hopes of reopening under a leaner financial structure. “The company didn’t become what we hoped it would become. That hurts,” Cultimate co-founder and CTO Jordi Morales-Dalmau said in a LinkedIn post, as reported by […]
In Florida, biotech company Dyadic International has entered into definitive agreements with an institutional investor to raise approximately $2.9 million through a registered direct offering of common stock and a concurrent private placement of warrants. The company will use the funds for general corporate purposes and working capital. The offering price per share of Common […]
In British Columbia, plant-based health biotech BioHarvest Sciences has signed an exclusive manufacturing and supply agreement with an existing fragrance partner in the United Arab Emirates for a rare and endangered fragrance plant cell culture. The undisclosed plant is threatened by overharvesting and habitat loss, and its fragrance is considered one of the world’s most […]
In Germany, Wacker has received approval from the European Commission to use its vegan amino acids L-cystine and L-cysteine as sensory additives in pet food for all animal species. The company’s FERMOPURE® VEGAN L-CYSTEINE and FERMOPURE® NATURAL L-CYSTINE are plant-based, fermentation-derived ingredients that can be used as flavor precursors and components in pet food. During […]
In New York, artist and “creative technologist” Sophia Collender has created an open-source archive of biobased paint “recipes” suitable for artistic painting. Dubbed The Experimental Paint Archive, the publicly accessible collection lists only biodegradable, non-toxic, or reusable pigments that can be combined with binders and liquid vehicles to produce artistic paints. Collender, a graduate student […]
In Switzerland, biomaterials startup Seprify has developed a cellulose-based alternative to the ubiquitous white pigment titanium dioxide by drawing inspiration from an unlikely source: the Cyphochilus beetle. The creepy crawly, found mostly in Southeast Asia, appears exceptionally white because its thin scales have a complex, porous structure that scatters light efficiently. “It’s not hard to […]
In Estonia, a globally unique 38-meter multi-purpose workboat, KRATT, has been completed at Baltic Workboats’ Nasva shipyard. From autumn, the vessel will carry out a wide range of maritime tasks in Estonian waters, from buoy handling and fairway maintenance to marine research, pollution response and rescue operations. It is Estonia’s first large workboat to use […]
In China, Port News reports Shanghai port has completed China’s first simultaneous anchorage bunkering of two international containerships with LNG and biomethanol. From Aug. 15-16, the CMA CGM Osmium received 8,016 metric tons of biomethanol, while Kota Elan took 5,038 cubic meters of LNG at Lvhuashan South Anchorage. Authorities described the biomethanol delivery as a […]
In the UK, the Environment Agency has granted an environmental permit variation to Drax Power Limited in Yorkshire following a public consultation on the Agency’s draft decision regarding the incorporation of carbon capture at its bioenergy plant near Selby, which took place earlier in the summer. The decision is based on Drax demonstrating that it […]
In Poland, ORLEN has secured certification under the Oil and Gas Institute’s KZR INiG sustainability scheme for the co-hydrotreatment of bio-based feedstocks at its Płock refinery. The certification confirms that the renewable feedstocks used by the Company and their processing comply with the European Union’s requirements. This enables ORLEN to expand the production of biofuel […]
