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India and Japan launch initiative to scale biogas production
India and Japan have launched a joint initiative to expand biogas production, with plans to build 1,000 biogas plants and create a market for 2.5 million biogas-powered vehicles. The move was announced at the 16th India–Japan Annual Summit in July…
New tech turns ethanol waste into bio-acetone
Lallemand Biofuels & Distilled Spirits and Braskem have announced a new technology platform that lets corn ethanol producers generate bio-acetone alongside their ethanol output. The system combines an engineered yeast strain with a separation process to recover the coproduct without…
New pest repellent made from biomass waste
Japanese green tech company Green Science Alliance has developed a pest repellent made from carbon quantum dots synthesized from organic waste. The materials include wood, plant, and food waste. Quantum dots are nanoparticles just a few atoms wide. Their tiny…
UK startup Ponda lands £2.35m to scale wetland-grown insulation
Bristol startup Ponda has secured a £2.35 million grant from DEFRA's Farming Innovation Programme. The funding will help build a UK supply chain for materials grown on restored wetlands. Ponda makes BioPuff, a plant-based insulation derived from typha, commonly known…
MORF-Bio Secures Innovate UK Investor Partnership Award to Advance Microbial Digital Twin Technology
MORF-Bio, the University of York spin-out developing intuitive bioinformatics tools for microbiology, has secured an Innovate UK Investor Partnerships Award, unlocking a new investment round led by Deeptech Seed Fund and matched by Helix Research and Enterprise. The funding will…
Algenesis moves from Silver to Gold, in EcoVadis’s top 5% worldwide
Algenesis has earned a Gold Medal from EcoVadis, moving up from Silver in a single year. The San Diego materials science company scored 82 out of 100, placing it in the 96th percentile of companies EcoVadis rates worldwide. Algenesis develops…