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,...
Ingredion Has New CFO and Added Focus on Texture for Biomaterial Ingredients
In Illinois, Ingredion Incorporated will have a new CFO, Jim Gray, as of March 1st to replace outgoing CFO, Jack Fortnum, who is retiring...
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...
Prototype shoe features chicken feathers and mushrooms
In Delaware, two students have designed a biodegradable shoe made from mushrooms, chicken feathers, and textile waste.
The two University of Delaware students presented the...
Biology could be the future of data storage
In Minnesota, researchers have been awarded $12 million by the National Science Foundation to develop biocomputers.
Kate Adamala, a University of Minnesota biologist, will work...
Lenzing Group Gets USDA’s Biobased Product Label for Biochemicals
In Austria, the Lenzing Group, a producer of botanic cellulose fibers for the textile and nonwovens industries, received a biobased certificate, or Biobased Product...
Purell’s newest soaps increase bio-based content and improve environmental impact
In Ohio, GOJO, inventors of PURELL Instant Hand Sanitizer, introduced the expansion of the PURELL® brand with breakthrough soap and surface spray formulations and...
Precision Dispensing Leader Nordson Corporation
In Ohio, Nordson Corporation acquired Spokane, Washington based ACE Production Technologies which designs and produces soldering systems for electronics assembly. Details on the acquisition...
New compound activates cancer-fighting T cells
In Connecticut, an international team of immunologists, molecular biologists, and chemists led by University of Connecticut chemistry professor Amy Howell reports the creation of...
Biodegradable bioplastic coffee capsules launched in Brazil
In Brazil, after a year of research and development to find the best solution for its coffee capsules Orfeu, launched its biodegradable and compostable...