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17 September 202016 September 2020

Polymer fiber-coating makes natural-fiber-reinforced plastics more resilient

In collaboration with the University of Guelph, researchers at the Fraunhofer WKI have created novel NFRP by using technical thermoplastics combined with coated natural fibers

Durch polymere Faserbeschichtung werden naturfaserverstärkte Kunststoffe belastbarer

Forschende am Fraunhofer WKI haben mit der University of Guelph technische Thermoplaste mit beschichteten Naturfasern zu neuartigen NFK entwickelt

14 August 201823 January 2019

Cannabis, canola, solids, hog fuel, wheat: what’s new with food and feedstocks?

Feedstock that is — crops and residues of the municipal, industrial, agricultural and forest type

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

27 May 201620 May 2016

Chance Finding Could Transform Plant Production: Study

By tweaking a plant’s genetic profile, the researchers doubled the plant’s growth and increased seed production by more than 400 per cent

1 October 201530 September 2015

Club Coffee set to release biodegradable pod

Paper-capped PurPod, invented by Guelph researchers, uses a brown-flecked bioplastic ring made of coffee bean chaff

21 April 201520 April 2015

Canada’s growing biobased economy to be showcased at the 2015 BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology in Montreal

Brent Erickson: “We look forward to bringing BIO’s World Congress back to Montreal, where Canadian and American industrial biotechnology companies have formed strong partnerships over the years.”

19 August 2013

Value chain consortium presented final report

A business case for a cornstalks to bioprocessing venture

30 October 2012

Sustainable Textiles Possible from Slime, Study Says

New biomaterial for protein in hagfish slime threads as an alternative to spider silks

21 June 2012

Future is seen — wrapped in bioplastics

Promoter of ‘green economy’ would like to see industry bag petroleum-based products and use biomaterials instead

3 May 201221 February 2018

Does Lignin Have Legs as a Future Plastics Feedstock?

Four Canadian researchers make a case that lignin could become an important feedstock for bioplastics

30 November 2010