Hamburg-based traceless secures €36.6 million to build first industry plant for bio-circular alternative to plastic. Traceless, which extracts natural biopolymers from agricultural industry residues to replace conventional polymers - gets €36.6 million in seed funding round. The business creates materials in the form of granules....
Evonik, a Slovakian company manufactures first product from world’s first industrial scale rhamnolipid biosurfactant plant. Surfactants - surface active agents - are amphiphilic molecules, which tend to accumulate at the interface between polar and non-polar solvents. Rhamnolipids are a class of glycolipid biosurfactants that are...
Patent-pending glue formulations developed at Purdue University from fully sustainable, bio-based components establish bonds that grow stronger when underwater. Researchers at Purdue University have developed a glue made from zein (a protein found in corn) and tannic acid. Tannic acid is a plant-based polyphenol that...
Living Ink announced this week that it secured $3.5 million to scale its flagship product, Algae Black. The patented black pigment is made from algae biomass waste that would otherwise end up in a landfill. A biomaterials company, Living Ink has developed inks based on...
Chromologics, a Danish biotech leveraging precision fermentation technology to produce colors for the food industry, has received $7.5 million as seed funding. The product is part of a new family of fungal-derived pigments, called atrorosins, that the cofounders discovered. The natural red food coloring is...
The Future of Ocean Farming: Sea6 Energy’s Vision that is Transforming Seaweed into Sustainable Solutions! Sea6 works on two broad areas: First, large-scale seaweed production by proprietary automation. Second, converting this seaweed into useful products that have applications across various sectors. The company has developed...
January 10, 2024 Farmers in India now use the internet for quick access to any actionable information required by them on agriculture. They use mobile applications to book digital services which provides them access to weather data, pest forecasts, and crop advisories. They can even...
13 Dec, 2023 The use of nanofertilizers, in combination with ‘bulk’ fertilizer(s), can reduce the application size of conventional fertilizers by 25-50 % in agricultural fields. TERI has developed three nano-fertilizer technologies up to commercial scale. These include nano Urea, nano DAP and nano Phosphorous....
Nov 24, 2023 A group of farmers in India have succeeded in making rice cultivation sustainable by drastically minimising the use of water to grow their crop. Farmers also use a drip irrigation technique, where they make sure the water reaches the root of the...
Anand Mahindra, the chairman of Mahindra Group, proposed a solution to the air pollution problem in Delhi-NCR caused by stubble burning. He suggested that regenerative agriculture, a farming method that improves soil health and reduces greenhouse gas emissions, should be adopted as an alternative to...