Alder biocrude pilot runs 1,000 hours
Alder Renewables says its integrated pilot plant has run for more than 1,000 hours without stopping. The San Antonio company reports that the run produced on-spec Alder Renewable Crude (ARC)…
Birch bark waste becomes bio-based barrier material
Innomost, a Finnish biomaterials company, has developed a barrier coating derived from upcycled birch bark. The material, called Suberinno Suberin, targets food packaging, dried goods and non-food applications. The coating…
Biomass-derived gel nails skip toxic ingredients
Green Science Alliance has developed a gel nail polish made from plant biomass. The formula is free of TPO, HEMA and TMPTA, three ingredients common in conventional gel nail products.…
Scientists turn cultivated meat waste into biomass
University of Queensland scientists have found a new way to grow microalgae. It uses waste from cultivated meat bioproduction. The biomass can then be processed. It's fed back into the…
Waste biomass trials boost carbon-negative fuel
Nova Pangaea Technologies has completed a major round of endurance trials. The results add further proof that its process for turning waste biomass into carbon-negative aviation fuel works at scale.…
Europe’s largest biomass storage deal signed
Senken has signed what it describes as the largest biomass storage deal in Europe to date, a multi-year carbon removal offtake with Berlin-based Carbonsate covering 50,000 tonnes of permanent carbon…
Verde Biomaterials scales biomass process
Verde Biomaterials has completed a major scale-up of its biomaterials process. The company moved from lab-scale trials to pilot-scale production over the past several months. The process started at the…
Wood waste could power new gasoline facility in Pennsylvania
Researchers at Penn State are working with a startup planning to turn wood waste into gasoline. The goal is to confirm the project will be ecologically sustainable before it moves…
World’s first commercial Steam-Ex pellet plant starts up in Malaysia
Malaysian biomass producer Rainbow Pellet Sdn Bhd has commissioned the world's first commercial-scale Steam-Ex pellet plant, processing empty fruit bunches (EFBs) from oil palm at its facility in Kuala Lipis.…