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 2024 Gail India and Trualt Bioenergy, two state-owned companies, have announced a joint venture to set up ten compressed biogas (CBG) plants in India with an investment of more than $72 million. The CBG plants will process over 600 million kg of organic waste...
July 2023 The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has launched a $1.4 billion fund to support sustainable projects in 88 countries, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). India’s bioenergy sector is one of the beneficiaries of the fund, with a project to produce...
BHEL, a state-owned power equipment manufacturer, has won a competitive bid to set up a 2,400 MW supercritical thermal power project in Odisha for NLC India, a coal PSU. The project will use boilers with biomass co-firing capability and highly efficient pollution control equipment. The...
JANUARY 2, 2024 The researchers from Finland tested the system in different modes and found that the hybrid mode, which combines solar and heat pump operation, resulted in higher and faster drying rates than the solar-only mode. The experimental system that uses solar thermal energy...