Press Release
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LEAF opens new yeast facility and launches new product
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Leaf – Lesaffre Advanced Fermentations has inaugurated its the new Lesaffre Yeast Corporation drying facility in Headland, Alabama, last week, which is reportedly the company’s first yeast drying facility in the United States. The drying facility is located in Headland, Alabama where Lesaffre and Red Star Yeast operate a cream yeast facility since the 1990’s.…
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Are there green premium for bioplastics?
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Germany-based Nova Institute is currently conducting an ongoing number of surveys on green premium prices along the value chain of bio-based products on behalf of the European project BIOFOREVER. Green Premium is defined by the survey as “the additional price a market actor is willing to pay for the additional emotional performance and/or the strategic…
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Avantium acquires Liquid Light
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Interesting news from Avantium but in short-to-medium term, this could complete the company’s (and its partners’) goal of sustainable polymers offering (e.g. CO2-based MEG + FDCA = PEF). Avantium announced today that it has acquired the assets of US-based Liquid Light Inc., which has developed proprietary process technology to make major chemicals from carbon dioxide…
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Cargill, Calysta to build gas fermentation facility
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Cargill and Calysta, Inc., along with several third-party institutions, plan to invest in reportedly the world’s largest gas fermentation facility in Memphis, Tenn. to produce Calysta’s FeedKind® protein, a family of sustainable, traceable nutritional ingredients for fish, livestock and pets. The new venture plans to build and operate this facility on Cargill’s 69-acre property on President’s…
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Lygos bags $13m funding
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Lygos, Inc., a bio-based specialty chemicals company, announced last week the closing of $13 million in Series A financing led by IA Ventures and OS Fund. Other investors include First Round Capital, the Y Combinator Continuity Fund, 50 Years and Vast Ventures, along with notable angel investors. Lygos has pioneered the world’s first bio-based production…
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DuPont bags grant for biologic medications
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This might not be targeting industrial applications but then the use of biotechnology has constantly been crossing over between pharma/life science, industrial chemicals, biofuels, and consumer/nutritional products. DuPont Industrial Biosciences recently announced receipt of a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support a new area of research. The research project, which commences immediately,…
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Green Biologics starts biochem shipments
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UK-based Green Biologics recently announced that it has begun commercial shipments of bio-based n-butanol and acetone from its first manufacturing facility in Little Falls, Minnesota. The company retrofitted a 21 million gal/year corn ethanol plant, which the company acquired from Central MN Ethanol Cooperative LLC. The site, now called Central MN Renewables (CMR) commenced construction…