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26 November 202422 November 2024

Metgen integration with NewEnergyBlue will create full Array of Biochemicals refined from agricultural Waste

NewEnergyBlue’s first U.S. biomass refinery is expected to begin operations in 2027 in Mason City, Iowa


22 January 202412 January 2024

The Fab Finns, the Top 20 Bioproducts from the bioeconomy’s forest heartland

In Finland, although it's known as the "Quiet Country", there have come several innovative products without any spectacular performances


6 October 20232 October 2023

Turning pulp mill residues and sugars from biorefineries into high-value products

By-products from pulp mills contain organic compounds that have so far been largely unprocessed. An EU-funded project is repurposing this leftover material from the manufacturing process into valuable materials and chemicals


Zellstofffabrikrückstände und Zucker aus Bioraffinerien in hochwertige Produkte umwandeln

Nebenprodukte aus Zellstofffabriken enthalten organische Verbindungen, die bisher kaum weiterverarbeitet wurden. Im Rahmen eines EU-finanzierten Projekts wird nun dieses Restmaterial aus dem Herstellungsprozess in wertvolle Materialien und Chemikalien umgewandelt


3 April 202330 March 2023

The 50 Hottest Companies in the Bioeconomy 2023

The Digest slideshow of the top 50 bioeconomy companies


20 October 202217 October 2022

Technip Energies and MetGen Join Forces to Industrialize METNIN® Lignin Refining Technology

Memorandum of Understanding to jointly bring a standardized solution for lignin refining to the global market


9 May 20224 May 2022

Competitive Edge: MetGen Oy

With the mission of maximizing the value of renewable feedstock, MetGen has developed and commercially launched a novel lignin valorization technology, METNIN


17 December 202117 December 2021

The Most Innovative Bioeconomy CEO is Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech

Results from survey to choose the most innovative bioeconomy CEO of 2021


15 December 202113 December 2021

The 10 Most Innovative Bioeconomy CEOs 2021

Survey to choose the most innovative bioeconomy CEO of 2021


2 September 202131 August 2021

Just out: new report on bio-based chemicals, polymers and materials

Developing bio-based chemicals, polymers and products in a sustainable manner allows for substantial new business opportunities


3 March 202126 February 2021

TECNARO EU Projekt – SWEETWOODS Bioraffinerie produziert erste Tonnen hochreines Lignin

Das EU Projekt SWEETWOODS hat seine ersten Meilensteine erreicht. Es stehen Proben von hochreinem Lignin und Holzzucker im Tonnenmaßstab zur Verfügung


23 February 202118 February 2021

SWEETWOODS delivers first tons of high purity lignin and wood sugars

One of the goals of the SWEETWOODS project is to establish markets for lignin and sugar-based platform chemicals


25 August 202020 August 2020

The inside track on Futurity, the New Zealand biorefinery pioneers with a fresh approach to extracting new value from pine

First-of-its-kind commercial biorefinery in New Zealand to break down pine trees into ‘building block’ components for platform chemicals to create bio-materials


7 May 20204 May 2020

Competitive Edge: MetGen

The What, When and How of the Advanced Bioeconomy Rising Stars


23 March 202017 March 2020

From tree to money faster and more efficiently than ever

Futurity to license MetGen’s award-winning METNIN™ technology for lignin valorization


16 December 201915 December 2019

Alex Michine, CEO of MetGen, is the Most Innovative Bioeconomy CEO 2019

Alex Michine succeeds to Ken Richards (Leaf Resources), Tony Duncan (Circa Group) and Jürgen Eck, respectively most innovative CEO 2016, 2017 and 2018


9 December 20198 December 2019

The 10 Most Innovative Bioeconomy CEOs in 2019. Now choose the number 1

The bioeconomy is innovation, the result of the skills and passion of researchers and managers able to create value and new high-qualified jobs


26 November 201924 November 2019

An exclusive interview with Alex Michine, CEO of MetGen. “Building consumer awareness is key for the expansion of the European bioeconomy”

In this exclusive interview with Il Bioeconomista, the CEO, Alex Michine, talks about the achievements and the next steps of the company


28 October 201923 October 2019

MetGen Earns Acclaim from Frost & Sullivan for its Unique, Customized Enzyme Technologies, METNIN™ and ENZINE®

The technologies solve the industry’s major pain points regarding the valorization of lignin, shorter technology development cycles, and customization of enzymes


5 September 201931 August 2019

From Lignin to Value: The Digest’s 2019 Multi-Slide Guide to MetGen’s Enzymes

Alex Michine, CEO of MetGen gave this enlightening overview of MetGen’s ‘how’, the Sweetwoods project and its integrated biorefinery flagship, and more at ABLC 2019


9 July 20194 July 2019

Kemira to participate in the development of 100% bio-based chemicals for paper and cardboard production as part of an EU funded project

In addition, the project aims to develop new means to improve production efficiency at pulp mills with higher utilization of wood biomass


5 July 201910 July 2019

Avantium awarded funding for ‘VEHICLE’

The consortium, coordinated by Avantium, works on developing 100% plant-based chemicals produced from renewable raw materials


6 May 201930 April 2019

Tailor-made enzymatic solutions reduce time and cost of biorefinery processes

In the EU-funded research project BIOrescue, Finnish company MetGen developed more efficient enzymes to accelerate chemical reactions and reduce the cost of the process


22 February 201918 February 2019

Substantial EU funding for Finnish custom-made enzymes that create value from pulp production side streams

WoodZymes is a large EU-funded Horizon 2020 project that aims to find out how lignin and hemicelluloses could be extracted more efficiently


16 November 201813 November 2018

MetGen receives John Sime Award and Plantics becomes PitchFest winner at #EFIB2018

Wealth of innovation on display at annual showcase event demonstrates Europe’s strong response to SDG challenges and potential of the circular bioeconomy


9 May 20189 May 2018

SWEETWOODS Consortium brings together 9 European bio-innovation oriented stakeholders

The project receives major EU funding to establish a first-of-a-kind wood fractionation Flagship plant to create new industrial value-chains using sustainable hardwood as a resource


26 February 201822 February 2018

Brainstorming the Bioeconomy’s Future and Welcoming 56 New Members at BIC’s General Assembly

At the event, representatives of the BBI JU Coordination and Support Actions (CSAs) also presented their projects to industry members


8 January 20187 January 2018

Alkol Biotech and BRD, the commercialization partner in the BIOFOREVER Consortium, sign a LOI for sustainable biomass sourcing in Europe

UK based company is able to provide European-grown canes to any biotechnology project in the continent


13 September 201711 September 2017

Plastic Stretches Towards the New: Top 10 Trendlines in Bioplastics

What’s the promise, who’s making progress? And when, where, how, and costing how much?


22 August 201721 August 2017

MetGen, Sweetwater unlocking lignin – the roughest, toughest, ornieri’st material that ever bushwhack’d a pioneer in the Valley of Death

For all of your questions about the advanced bioeconomy there’s just the one answer and that is “lignin”


23 May 201719 May 2017

Inés del Campo – Developing a circular economy concept for agricultural residues

At CENER, researchers are currently testing different processes to extract high value added components contained in mushroom compost


21 April 201718 April 2017

New route to FDCA: The Digest’s 2017 Multi-Slide Guide to MetGen’s chemo-enzymatic process

Chemo-enzymatic process leads to oxidized forms of 5-HMF


3 November 20162 November 2016

3F Bio voted best speech and MetGen won the John Sime award at Efib 2016

Companies were acknowledged as industrial biotech leaders at this year’s European Forum on Industrial Biotechnology and the Bioeconomy


11 October 201610 October 2016

BIOrescue: Valorising mushroom compost to create innovative bio-based products

Multidisciplinary project partners to develop new biorefinery process for the conversion of mushroom compost into innovative bio-based products


10 October 20168 October 2016

Advanced enzymes for lignocellulosic conversion: The Digest’s 2016 Multi-Slide Guide to MetGen

The company has made a name for itself via participation as a preferred enzyme developer in EU Horizon 2020 projects


7 September 20165 September 2016

Demonstration project started for the conversion of woody biomass to chemicals

By a consortium of 14 European companies using EU funding under the Horizon 2020 program


14 June 201613 June 2016

Ahem, it’s the chems: The Digest’s Multi-Slide Guide to Sofinnova and biobased chemicals private equity

Company chief Denis Luquin gave these slides on renewable chemical private equity at ABLC 2016


3 March 201625 February 2016

From Upstream to Downstream, the importance of the Value Chain

Plant Based Summit shows optimism surrounding the commercialisation of renewable chemicals


10 June 20147 June 2014

EuropaBio and Smithers Rapra, in association with IAR, unveil the agenda for the European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology

from 1-2 October 2014 taking place in the heart of Champagne-Ardenne


11 February 2013

Sofinnova Green Seed Fund announces its first investment in Metgen

Industrial biotech start-up raises a total of €2.2M with participation of Finnish Partners

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