Canada Invests in Cleantech to Transform Quebec Pulp Mill
In Canada, the Minister of International Development, on behalf of Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, announced $1.89 million in funding to accelerate the development...
When less sweet is a sweet thing – Novozymes new online calculator helps dial...
In Denmark, Novozymes offers the first online tool to support reformulation challenges and that helps dairies develop products with less sugar. This will allow...
Ocean Sponges Offer Powerful Solution for Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
In Florida, researchers from Florida Atlantic University demonstrated that a compound derived from a deep water sponge can fight back against antibiotic resistant super...
Wheat straw transformed into bio-isobutene – precursor for chemicals
In California, the EU-funded OPTISOCHEM project researchers have made strides in converting wheat residues, an agricultural waste, into valuable bio-isobutene, or bio-IBN which is...
New Catalyst Converts Propane Gas into Heavier Hydrocarbons for Liquid Fuels
In Saudi Arabia, researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology developed a catalyst using titanium and tungsten compounds that converts propane gas...
Ever Dream of Testing Biochemical Reactions in 10,000 Different Conditions at the Same Time?
In Japan, it may have taken two years, but researchers have made it possible to test a biochemical reaction in 10,000 different conditions faster...
Longer shelf life for coconut water thanks to new mesh microbe-removing method
In India, scientists found a way to keep coconut water tasting delicious for up to 18 weeks and increase its shelf life without any...
What do fish and paper mills have in common? Domtar has the answer
In Pennsylvania, a leading pulp and paper manufacturer is hatching and raising thousands of brook, brown and rainbow trout in one of their old...
Bug balls and bug burgers – food of the future?
In Denmark, IKEA is busy at work in their test kitchen, Space10, to create the food of the future, including new meatballs made from...
Domtar not afraid of risk with potential biomaterial opportunities
In Canada, Domtar, a leading pulp and paper manufacturing company, is expanding its products from wood pulp and remnants into other biomaterials. Shabnam Sanaei,...