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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 design platform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Geno…
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 expertise from Hyosung TNC, the world's leading spandex producer, as…
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 for sustainable aviation fuel. The partnership aims to turn used…
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 Dr. Dirk van der Kley. The report links the shift…
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 partnership with Hema Energy. The project supports Nama's sustainability strategy…
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 put to higher use. Hamburg-based Lignopure wants to change that.…