Technology
MicroBioGen on how to reduce carbon intensity of food and fuel production whilst lowering impacts of biofuels on land use
Australian industrial biotechnology and yeast innovation technology solutions leader MicroBioGen announced the publication of its peer-review article, 'Reducing Carbon Intensity of Food and Fuel Production Whilst Lowering Land-Use Impacts of Biofuels' in Fermentation, an international, scientific, peer-review journal on fermentation…
Ecogensus debuts waste-derived lumber composite material
Ecogensus unveiled its new structurally reinforced, waste-derived lumber innovation, a significant development towards liberating waste-derived substances for use in a broader set of sustainable building material applications.
Fairbanks Morse Defense and Oak Ridge National Laboratory to develop alt biofuels for marine engines
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Department of Energy’s largest multidisciplinary laboratory, and Fairbanks Morse Defense (FMD), a portfolio company of Arcline Investment Management, have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on the development and integration of…
Origin Materials creates sustainable PET bottle caps
Origin Materials, a leading carbon negative materials company with a mission to enable the world’s transition to sustainable materials, has created “all PET” (polyethylene terephthalate) bottle caps, making “100% recycled PET” possible from cap to bottle to improve post-consumer recycling.
European consortium demonstrates potential of biomass for bioplastics
In its first two years, the European BeonNAT project has achieved promising results that demonstrate the potential of biomass cultivated to produce bioplastics for bioactive cosmetics, biochar, activated carbon and pet litter with essential oils.
Eggshell derived biomaterial reduces plastic content by half
Spark Sourcing’s GEX bio-calcium has been granted a US patent that acknowledges the material as environmentally friendly and waste-saving. The material, which is derived from eggshells, employs a manufacturing method that cuts plastic content by half, according to company claims.