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Parkdale buys biodegradable fiber additive CiCLO
Parkdale Advanced Materials, a textile and consumer products manufacturer in Gastonia, North Carolina, has acquired full ownership of CiCLO technology. CiCLO is a biodegradable textile ingredient. It is designed to reduce how long microplastic fibers persist in the environment. Conventional…
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) throughout. ARC is a biocrude made from woody biomass pyrolysis…
Those Vegan Cowboys takes casein to athletes
Those Vegan Cowboys is taking its precision-fermented casein into sports nutrition. The Dutch startup has won a €1.2 million subsidy to explore the protein's potential for athletes. The company makes recombinant caseins through precision fermentation. This involves inserting specific DNA…
UAE pilot turns food waste into biogas
Emirates Biotech and United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) will build a pilot plant that turns food waste and compostable packaging into biogas and compost. The partners call it the country's first integrated organic-waste valorisation plant. The facility will sit near…
Cotierra raises €2.6M for coffee biochar
Zurich-based climate technology company Cotierra has raised €2.6 million in an early-stage round. PINC, the venture arm of food and beverage group Paulig, and Carbon Removal Partners co-led the round. The sum is roughly $3 million. Cotierra builds decentralised biochar…
Plasma treatment tackles moisture in bio-based films
Researchers at North Carolina State University (NC State) have found a way to make plant-based packaging film resist water. They used plasma to add a thin protective coating to cellulose nanofibril (CNF) films. CNF films come from natural plant and…