By Alper Yarasik, Global Industry Manager – Plasticizers, Cargill Bioindustrial Special to The Digest There’s no question that consumers and manufacturers around the world are demanding materials made without petrochemicals, especially where potential concerns around toxicity and sustainability will continue to be a priority. As a response, the industry is seeing more innovation across the […]
By Patrice Sellès, CEO, Biotalys Special to The Digest While our global food system is still incredibly dependent on chemical-based pesticides and fertilizers, pest resistance is building in our fields and costs continue to climb thanks to escalating fuel costs and global events like the Chinese phosphate export ban. As supply concerns create massive price […]
Here comes the sun…the sunliquid that is. From Switzerland-based Clariant comes news that construction is complete first commercial Sunliquid plant for the production of cellulosic ethanol from agricultural residues. Where? In Podari, Romania where the EUR 140 million facility (about $162 million USD) will be operational in the fourth quarter processing approx. 250,000 tons of […]
Q: What was the reason for founding your organization – what was the open niche you saw that could be addressed with a new product or service? What was the problem, or gap, or opportunity? The fundamental difference between point-source capture and direct air capture is the dilution state of the CO2. Imagine a river […]
It’s all about meat and mushrooms for this week’s Top 8 Innovations. From Stella McCartney’s mushroom leather bag made by Bolt Threads and new investments in NoMy to commercialize fungi-based materials all the way to Jane Goodall narrating a new documentary on cultivated meat, Ashton Kutcher’s endorsement of MeaTech to accelerate 3D printed, cultivated meat […]
By Jeffrey Wang, Associate, Global Food Safety Forum Special to The Digest Developing a sustainable global food system that ensures access to a sufficient supply of nutritious, diverse and safe food for all, and simultaneously limits the impact on the environment, is one of the key challenges in the next few decades. Therefore, identifying technologies […]
There was quite a bit of movement the past few months in the biobased world. From the U.S. EPA appointing a new Agriculture Advisor, a former Chevron expert joining Aemetis for renewable jet/diesel projects, 2 new VPs at Transform Materials, Swift Biosciences President & CEO moving over to KromaTiD, several changes at Neste, a new […]
Pluton is a large body of intrusive igneous rock according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, and “breaking ground” and being “ground breaking” is just what Pluton Biosciences is doing with their novel microbes. They are making discovery of novel microbes not only possible, but commercially viable. And news just came in that Pluton Biosciences raised $6.6 […]
With a name like Dr. Wood as CTO and Co-founder of a company that was founded to commercialize Hot Water Extraction for producing fuels and chemicals from biomass, particularly but not exclusively hardwoods, this Competitive Edge entry caught our eye. But what is the HWE tech all about? How does it valorize the hemicellulose portion […]
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021 for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis to: Benjamin List, Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung David W.C. MacMillan, Professor at Princeton University Background on the Award The rapid expansion in the use of organic catalysts is primarily due to their ability to drive […]
