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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.…
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 Innovation." The conference centers on replacing fossil carbon with renewable…
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 pipeline. The Jupiter, Florida-based company uses its Dapibus platform to…
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 a cleaner alternative to how coffee waste is currently handled.…
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 more than a decade of collaboration between the two companies.…
Biofuel push risks food crisis, new T&E study warns
Global biofuel consumption could rise by 30% this year and nearly 70% by 2030, according to a new study from Transport & Environment (T&E). The surge is being driven by a scramble for biofuel feedstocks amid high oil prices. The…