Danish biogas covers a day of gas use
Denmark reached a notable energy milestone on July 4. Domestic biogas production matched the country's total gas consumption for a full day. It marked the first time this year that…
Cox Enterprises backs 10 startups in new cleantech residency
Cox Enterprises has launched its first Cox Cleantech Residency, bringing together 10 early-stage startups for a six-week program in Atlanta. The initiative, run with gener8tor and the Georgia Cleantech Innovation…
Again acquires Geno to unite AI design with biomanufacturing
Biomanufacturing company Again has acquired Genomatica, known as Geno, in a deal announced from Copenhagen and San Diego. The acquisition combines Again's biomanufacturing scale-up expertise with Geno's AI-driven discovery and…
Hyosung to build sugarcane-based bio-material production in Vietnam
Hyosung Group is expanding beyond its core spandex business into bio-based materials, using sugarcane as a feedstock for a new production system in Vietnam. The move builds on decades of…
FatHopes, PVOIL launch SAF partnership
FatHopes Energy has partnered with PetroVietnam Oil Corporation, known as PVOIL, to build Vietnam's first nationwide collection system for used cooking oil. The Malaysian company specializes in traceable waste-based feedstock…
China’s fermentation giants eye mycoprotein
China's largest fermentation manufacturers are redirecting production capacity toward mycoprotein and other alternative proteins. That is according to a new report from the Good Food Institute APAC, authored by researcher…
Oman pilots recycled water to grow biofuel crop camelina
Nama Water Services has launched a pilot project in Oman to grow camelina, a crop widely used in biofuel production, using recycled water. The initiative is being carried out in…
Lignopure brings lignin out of the waste stream and into cosmetics, coatings
Lignin has spent decades as industry's leftover. Pulp and paper mills produce more than 50 million tonnes of it a year. Most of it gets burned for fuel instead of…
nova-Institute to host chemical industry defossilisation summit
The Renewable Materials Conference will take place from 22 to 24 September in Siegburg, near Cologne, Germany, and online. Hosted by nova-Institute, this year's event carries the theme "Defossilisation through…
Dyadic strikes new deal for precision-fermented dairy proteins
Dyadic International has signed a new development and commercial license agreement with a European biotechnology company. The deal will add more precision-fermented dairy proteins to Dyadic's growing food and nutrition…
Spanish researchers turn coffee waste into biofuel
Researchers at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Spain have developed a new method to turn spent coffee grounds into a raw material for biofuel production. The process could offer…
Novonesis to buy MicroBioGen in yeast biotech push
Novonesis has signed an agreement to acquire the remaining shares of MicroBioGen, an Australian biotechnology company known for its work on yeast strains for industrial use. The deal builds on…