Natnov Bioscience, an Odisha-based startup, converts seafood waste into biopolymers. The company processes 5,000 metric tonnes of seafood waste annually which naturally decompose as a sustainable alternative to traditional plastics. These bioplastics, with high performance and antimicrobial properties, are suitable for food packaging, agriculture, and...
Pakistan denim manufacturer AGI Denim has partnered with sustainable dye maker Huue of California to produce denim jeans made from Huue Indigo, which uses microbial fermentation to create colors in a sustainable alternative to traditional dyes. Huue Indigo studies the enzymes in plants that create...
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...
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...
IIT Guwahati researchers have developed a silica nanoparticle-coated cotton fabric that can separate oil from an oil-water mixture. The nanoparticles are made from rice husk, an agricultural waste, and coated on the fabric to make it water-repellent and oil-absorbent. The innovation aims to convert waste...
