28 July 202525 July 2025 Qore Launches in Eddyville, Iowa, Ushering in Large-Scale Corn Processing for Bio-Based Solutions Grand opening showcases QIRA®, a renewably derived alternative to fossil-based manufacturing
22 August 202419 August 2024 Industry’s workhorse chemicals go biobased Thousands of chemicals are used by consumers and businesses every day. At the base of most of their supply chains lie petrochemicals
23 December 202220 December 2022 Trillium Announces Close of Series A Financing, Raising $10.6 Million New investment round led by Hyosung and HELM AG will accelerate the commercialization of Trillium’s process to manufacture chemicals from plant-based materials
9 August 20215 August 2021 Genomatica Closes $118M Series C to Amplify the Scale and Impact of Sustainable Materials Leading life science investor Novo Holdings leads round to accelerate helping brands meet ever-increasing sustainability demands amidst the urgent climate crisis
20 July 202115 July 2021 Striking Footprint: Cargill, Helm take a giant leap for biobased BDO Both companies are investing a combined $300 million to build the first commercial-scale, renewable BDO (1,4-butanediol) facility in the U.S.
18 June 202118 June 2021 Biobased BDO, spider silks, new textile hubs: The Digest’s 2021 Multi-Slide Guide to Supermaterials! Get the Inside True Story— spider silk proteins and bio-based BDO, what are the techs, projects, apps, rationales and more
Bio-based chemicals capacity build-up continues A planned 65 ktpa fermentation-based 1,4-butanediol (BDO) capacity in Iowa, USA, to be built by a newly-formed joint venture called Qore
16 June 202116 June 2021 Cargill and HELM partner to build $300M commercial-scale, renewable BDO facility, first in the US, to meet growing customer demand New joint venture unveils QIRA, a bio-based 1,4-butanediol (BDO) that saves up to 93 percent of greenhouse gas emissions compared to the use of conventional BDO
26 March 20219 September 2021 HELM U.S. Corporation and Viridis Chemical Announce Global Marketing Partnership HELM will immediately assume the exclusive responsibility for global sales, marketing and logistics management for both of Viridis Chemical’s products
27 May 201926 May 2019 At the HELM of the bio-based chemical ship Interview with Christian Stammerjohann, head of department at HELM, to find out more about the company’s move to promote bio-based chemicals
1 March 201728 February 2017 Helm signs off-take ethyl acetate supply with Greenyug The production facility is going to be located next to Archer Daniels Midland’s (ADM) corn processing plant in Columbus
17 October 201416 October 2014 More bio-succinic acid commercialization milestones Doris de Guzman about bio-succinic acid news
17 October 2012 Reverdia und Helm beginnen Distributions- und Marketingzusammenarbeit bei Biosuccinium™ in Europa Reverdia eröffnet weltweit erste Großanlage für die kommerzielle Produktion biobasierter Bernsteinsäure
