Forest waste to jet fuel in Washington
Northwest Advanced Bio-Fuels (NWABF) wants to turn Washington's forest waste into aviation fuel. The company has signed a funding partnership with private equity firm Black Gold Equity Partners. The deal…
Moeve and ENSO team up on biomass
Moeve and ENSO have signed a collaboration agreement to cut fossil fuel use in industry. The partners will rely on biomass and renewable gases to do it. The focus is…
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)…
Birch bark waste becomes bio-based barrier material
Innomost, a Finnish biomaterials company, has developed a barrier coating derived from upcycled birch bark. The material, called Suberinno Suberin, targets food packaging, dried goods and non-food applications. The coating…
Biomass-derived gel nails skip toxic ingredients
Green Science Alliance has developed a gel nail polish made from plant biomass. The formula is free of TPO, HEMA and TMPTA, three ingredients common in conventional gel nail products.…
Scientists turn cultivated meat waste into biomass
University of Queensland scientists have found a new way to grow microalgae. It uses waste from cultivated meat bioproduction. The biomass can then be processed. It's fed back into the…
Waste biomass trials boost carbon-negative fuel
Nova Pangaea Technologies has completed a major round of endurance trials. The results add further proof that its process for turning waste biomass into carbon-negative aviation fuel works at scale.…
Europe’s largest biomass storage deal signed
Senken has signed what it describes as the largest biomass storage deal in Europe to date, a multi-year carbon removal offtake with Berlin-based Carbonsate covering 50,000 tonnes of permanent carbon…
Verde Biomaterials scales biomass process
Verde Biomaterials has completed a major scale-up of its biomaterials process. The company moved from lab-scale trials to pilot-scale production over the past several months. The process started at the…