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Steakholder Foods to collaborate with Umami Meats for 3D bio-print fish products
Steakholder Foods, an international deep-tech food company at the forefront of the cultivated meat industry, has received its first grant to develop 3D-printed structured eel and grouper products with Singaporean cultivated fish and seafood company Umami Meats.
Traceless’ sock hooks reach Hamburg stores
Every year, around 8-10 billion plastic clothes hangers are produced globally, with only 15% being recycled. Plastic sock hooks are specially challenging to recycle due to their small size.
Geno joins UN Global Compact
Sustainable materials leader Geno has joined the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) initiative — the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world, with more than 15,000 companies and 3,800 non-business signatories in over 160 countries.
Wood and Cuantec to extract biopolymers from shellfish waste
Wood, the global consulting and engineering company, has announced that it will work jointly with CuanTec, a Scottish circular economy business, in order to develop cutting edge separation facilities that aim to process shellfish waste to extract chitin, which is…
Checkerspot releases Pollinator Kit, making biomaterials accessible to everyone
American-based material company Checkerspot recently released the Pollinator™ Kit, an algae-based resin that allows anyone to make durable, long-lasting parts with ≥56% biobased content.
Fedrigoni and Tecnoform present éclose, a biomaterial for sustainable luxury packaging
“éclose is innovation in packaging: it is not just a transition from plastic to paper, it is the thermoformed cellulose for sustainable luxury packaging”, such is the statement that the company uses to summarise éclose.