Category: Top Stories

Corbion’s lactic acid, BASF biosurfactants, seed PPE, Hermès mushroom-leather bag, sugarcane UGGs, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of March 19th

As spring nears in some parts of the world and COVID vaccine availability improves, we think of hope, seeds and new growth. One designer took it literally and created biodegradable PPE face masks from rice paper filled with flower seeds to bring forth new growth when discarded. French luxury goods maker Hermès launched a mushroom-leather […]

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CIRCA’s Landmark IPO: What does it mean for renewable chemicals, and the IPO market for bioindustrials?

Late last month, we reported that Circa Group had completed a €56 million (about USD$66 million) IPO and is now trading on the Euronext Growth Oslo exchange where it is trading roughly at the IPO price (16.75 NOK – about $1.98 per share), for the month it has traded in a 14.77-19.75 NOK range — […]

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Fighting Fraud with Tech – RSB, Bioledger build up blockchain for biofuels traceability  

The Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials and Bioledger are using blockchain technology to fight fraud and see how it can support traceability of biofuel and its feedstocks and overcome the vulnerabilities identified in securing the supply of sustainable renewables. The proposed solution — a blockchain database that enables verifiable proof of origin, secure consignment creation, process […]

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First index of publicly traded plant-based stocks launched, vegan plant-based products taking off, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of March 12th

What do Chipotle, e.l.f. and RuPaul have in common? They are partnering up on a plant-based vegan line of make-up. And H&M launched a new collection featuring vegan leather made from prickly pear cactus. And if you want an investment portfolio that is 100% free from animals, you are in luck with the first index […]

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The Digest’s Exclusive Q&A with Clariant/ Enviral: Decarbonization, EU transport, Slovakia project, biofuels developments and more

Climate change is one of the global challenges of this century. The Paris Agreement sets greenhouse gas reduction (GHG) targets also for the transport sector, which contributes significantly to GHG emissions, that requires a reduction of 85-90% between 1990-2050. The European Commission presented its 2030 Climate Target Plan in mid-September, raising the EU’s ambition to […]

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Why that Company that releases fertilizers so sloooow is getting traction so faaaaast: Anuvia raises $103M to accelerate deployment

In Florida, Anuvia Plant Nutrients today announced it has raised $103 million in Series C funding, co-led by TPG ART and Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (Pontifax AgTech), with additional investment from Generate and Piva Capital. Those slow-release fertilizers: the backstory. Granulated fertilizers have been around for quite a number of years. Most […]

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