Category : Chemical Pathways


Biofuels Junction eyes expansion in paddy-rich regions of Andhra Pradesh

Biofuels Junction is expanding in Andhra Pradesh, leveraging the region's rich paddy production. They collaborate with local manufacturers and suppliers to collect agricultural residues like paddy straw, sugarcane trash, and cotton plant residue. Founded in 2018, Biofuels Junction shifted its focus from manufacturing to supply...


How Michroma is Revolutionizing Natural Food Colourants with Fungi

Michroma is developing natural vegan-friendly food colourants powered by fungi to overhaul synthetic and animal-based, non-vegan food dyes. The product is part of a new family of fungal-derived pigments, called atrorosins, that the cofounders discovered. The natural red food coloring is produced using fungal fermentation....


Bio-based PET and polyesters – Origin Materials and Sustainea partner up.

Origin Materials, a company that produces carbon negative materials, and Sustainea, a company that produces bio-based Mono ethylene glycol (MEG), have launched a strategic partnership to develop 100% bio-based PET and polyesters. Using sustainable feedstocks like sugarcane and corn, Sustainea generates bio-based Mono ethylene glycol...


“Ethanol-to-SAF” – LanzaJet opens facility in Georgia.

LanzaJet holds grand opening in Georgia for world’s 1st ethanol-to-SAF facility LanzaJet Freedom Pines Fuels represents one of the most promising SAF technologies. It will produce 10 million gallons of SAF and renewable diesel per year from low-carbon, sustainable, ethanol that meets the global standards....


World’s first rhamnolipid biosurfactant plant – Evonik brings out its product.

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...