26 November 202421 November 2024 Acme-Hardesty Partners with Lygos To Represent Soltellus™ For Personal and Home Care Markets Lygos’ Soltellus™ is designed to meet the growing demand for sustainable and eco-friendly products - multifunctional, biodegradable polymers - engineered to deliver high performance in various applications
24 September 202420 September 2024 Lygos and CJ BIO Partner on Commercial-scale Biorefinery Complex in Fort Dodge, Iowa, to Bring High-Performing, Sustainable Solutions to Market The partnership includes delivery of over 40,000 MT/yr of Lygos’ flagship products, Soltellus™ and Ecoteria™, with the potential for future expansion of additional sustainable innovations
14 September 202212 September 2022 LG Chem, ADM form JV’s for US-based Lactic Acid, Polylactic Acid From Chicago and Seoul comes news that LG Chem and ADM have launchedtwo joint ventures for U.S. production of lactic acid and polylactic acid
31 August 202026 August 2020 Lygos Successfully Validates Novel Fermentation Process for Sustainable and Rare Cannabinoids After rapid integration of NIH-funded Librede technology, company now focused on scaling to commercial quantities and launching new consumer products
20 August 202017 August 2020 Your Car Is More Plastic Than You Know. This Company May Soon Be Brewing Its Parts With Biology A new partnership aims to brew the raw materials needed for greener bioplastics
17 July 20208 July 2020 Praj and Lygos to Co-develop Advanced Lactic Acid Yeast Technology for Bio-based Products Lygos will provide its proprietary yeast platform to Praj for jointly developing into various solutions for commercial applications
24 January 202021 January 2020 Cannabinoid, meet biochem – Lygos acquires Librede to scale up and commercialize cannabinoid production Increased interest from companies in cannabinoids given the smokin’ hot demand and it makes sense that it’s coming from biochem companies
20 March 201915 March 2019 Lygos Awarded Three Innovation Research Grants to Advance Applications for its Portfolio of Sustainable Specialty Biochemicals Latest funding from DOE, USDA and NSF further validates company’s commitment to replacing toxic petrochemicals, reclaiming local manufacturing and reviving industrial chemical innovation
21 March 201819 March 2018 NCGA highlights corn-based chemicals R&Ds Six new technologies towards green chemistry have been awarded at the first “Consider Corn Challenge“
Consider Corn Challenge shines a light on corn’s growing potential in bio-economy Scientists and start-up companies answered the global call to bring forth their best ideas focused on the conversion of corn into bio-renewable chemicals
21 February 201717 February 2017 BIC General Assembly: Growing Membership Deepens Bioeconomy Cooperation 16 new Full members and 22 new Associate members representing a strong European cooperation on the bioeconomy
10 February 20179 September 2021 The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to Lygos’ technical approach Malonic acid from biobased source
16 January 201713 January 2017 Synthetic biology startup Lygos raises $13 million from OS Fund and IA Ventures to make cleaner chemicals Lygos is now producing “metric ton quantities” of its bio-malonic acid products
12 January 201710 January 2017 All Bioeconomy Processes Developed Upstairs: The Digest’s 2016 Multi-Slide Guide to the ABPDU Technology centers to optimize and scale technologies to enable the commercialization of bio-based chemicals, materials, and fuels
11 October 201610 October 2016 Who has won the 2016 Bio-Based Americas Innovation Awards? Club Coffee LP were honoured with their 100% compostable pods for single serve coffee
21 September 201619 September 2016 Who is shortlisted for the Bio-Based Americas Innovation Awards 2016? Winners will be announced at Bio-Based Live in San Francisco on 27th September
11 May 20163 May 2016 Integrating the Production of Biofuels and Bioproducts through Advanced Biotechnology The development of bio-based products has quickly become one of the fastest-growing segments of the biotech industry
11 August 201510 August 2015 Updates on Top Value Added Chemicals from Biomass Progress in commercialization/development of several renewable chemicals that were candidates under the US DOE’s 2004 Top Value Added Biomass-based Chemicals
6 March 20155 March 2015 Lygos, Inc. announced today that it has successfully achieved pilot scale production of malonic acid from sugar First pilot-scale production of malonic acid from renewable resources at Berkeley Lab's ABPDU
26 February 201425 February 2014 Der geplatzte Traum vom Mikrobensprit Biodiesel-Hersteller Renewable Energy Group kauft kalifornische Firma LS9
3 January 2013 Energy Department Awards $10 Million to Develop Advanced Biofuels and Bio-based Products Financial support for five projects with innovative synthetic chemical and biological technologies for converting biomass into sugar