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11 March 20245 March 2024

Insempra awarded Eurostars grant to develop fermentative biomelanin with a consortium of innovative European partners

Insempra’s advanced technology platform enables the production of superior natural ingredients on an industrial scale to help the world’s leading brands transform their products

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4 March 202428 February 2024

Insempra wins €1.5M disruptive innovation grant with circular biomanufacturing concept ‘BioTreasure’

Luisa Gronenberg and her experts team develop bioplastics like polyesters and polyamide via biotechnological fermentation from organic waste feedstocks

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29 February 202426 February 2024

EV Biotech and Synonym partner to help biomanufacturing companies scale up

EV Biotech and Synonym have forged a powerful partnership, combining their strengths to accelerate the development and commercialization of cutting-edge biomaterials

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23 February 202420 February 2024

World’s First Pilot Plant for Bio-Based Aniline

Opening ceremony with guests from the world of politics and science

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21 February 202419 February 2024

Fermentation revolution?

Trash becomes treasure as bio-waste yields valuable acetone and isopropanol

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16 February 20246 February 2024

MycoWorks Announces First 1000 Sheets Harvested and First Commercial Shipments

The sheets will first pass through the expert hands of MycoWorks' partner tanneries across Europe, transforming Fine Mycelium™ into products including the company's own flagship material Reishi™

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12 February 20243 February 2024

Breakthrough for an Alternative to Crude Oil & Palm Oil: COLIPI Receives €1.8 Million Seed Funding for Further Development of CO2-Neutral Climate OilTM

Start up is going to enter the market with its Climate Oil and scale precision fermentation processes to 10 cubic meters the pilot scale

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8 February 20247 February 2024

Navigating a Renewable Carbon Future with the Program of the CO₂-Based Fuels and Chemicals Conference 2024

Redefining CCU Technology and Empowering Power-to-X Solutions

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6 February 202430 January 2024

Sustainable raw materials for a green chemical industry

Launch of the BEFuel project: From exhaust gases and wastewater to e-fuels and high-quality chemicals

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5 February 202429 January 2024

Syensqo invests in Bioeutectics, a start-up producing green solvents

The investment, made through Syensqo’s venture capital fund, will contribute to bring more sustainable products and processes to market

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30 January 202422 January 2024

IBioIC secures funding to continue growth of Scotland’s bioeconomy

The innovation centre is a key driver of Scotland’s National Plan for Industrial Biotechnology and will be enabled to continue the development of a greener economy and support Scotland’s transition to net zero

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AMSilk and 21st.BIO announce partnership to accelerate the production of advanced materials made from spider silk-based proteins

21st.BIO has developed a new protein production strain created from highly specialized precision fermented microorganisms, ensuring that AMSilk can meet demand as it increases production to industrial scale

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29 January 202426 January 2024

Four Weeks Left to Submit Your Innovation to the ”Renewable Material of the Year 2024“

The Innovation Award, sponsored by Covestro, is part of the Renewable Materials Conference (RMC), 11-13 June 2024, Siegburg/Cologne

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26 January 202418 January 2024

Researcher appointed global Bioeconomy Youth Champion

Dr Angelique Greene of Scion Research was appointed as Bioeconomy Youth Champion for Asia-Pacific by the International Advisory Council on Global Bioeconomy

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24 January 202416 January 2024

India: A Vibrant Ecosystem for Cost-Effective Bioplastics Production

India, with its cost-effective production environment, government support, and abundant resources, has potential to emerge as a global bioplastic hub

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European Parliament heads for tight vote on plant gene editing

The European Parliament heads for tight vote on the proposal for new rules for innovative types of gene-edited plants, which currently fall under the more restrictive genetically modified organisms (GMO) framework

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23 January 202415 January 2024

SQIM secures € 11 million in series a funding for industrialization of mycelium-based technologies

Formerly known as MOGU SRL, SQIM has successfully closed a €11 Million funding round to expand Industrial Scale-Up through the launch of a newly dedicated Demo Plant

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22 January 202415 January 2024

Can Europe’s blue bioeconomy live up to its promises?

The blue bioeconomy refers to marine-based sectors that draw specifically on biomass from the sea, either for primary extraction or to create processed materials and new biotechnologies for consumer markets

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19 January 202415 January 2024

New dimensions of electrospun nanofiber material designs for biotechnological uses

Electrospinning technology has garnered wide attention over the past few decades in various biomedical applications including drug delivery, cell therapy, and tissue engineering

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15 January 20248 January 2024

Global Bioenergies specifies the schedule of its new biobased isobutene plant for cosmetics

The finalization of the basic engineering design, concurrent with the signing of the first tranche of financing for the plant, is expected in summer 2024

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12 January 20249 January 2024

Insights Into the Metabolism of Plastic-Eating Bacteria

Researchers have shown for the first time how bacteria break down common plastic coatings

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11 January 20244 October 2024

Monthly news from the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI), December 2023

The new RCI Scientific Background Report is published and the RCS Label has been presented at the EBC2023, RCI got reinforcement with Jörn Harrandt, you may find project overviews and an invitation to a free RCI webinar

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First step towards synthetic CO2 fixation in living cells

Three modules forming a new-to-nature CO2 fixation cycle successfully implemented in E.coli

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Bio-Materials Startup BioFluff Raised $2.5M in Seed Funding

The funding will support BioFluff's mission to reduce reliance on animal and synthetic-derived products in the textile industry and further innovation in sustainability

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9 January 20242 January 2024

Reflection and renewal for industrial biotechnology in Europe: EuropaBio launches EFIB Rotterdam Statement 2023

The Statement provides a priority pathway for biotechnology to support Europe’s global leadership, resilience and competitiveness in the context of greater recognition and acceleration for biotechnology

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8 January 202422 December 2023

The 6th World BioEconomy Forum celebrates global advances in the bioeconomy

Under the theme 'Creating a Global Hub for the Bioeconomy,' the event utilised a four-pillar structure to assess the circular bioeconomy's status

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4 January 202420 December 2023

Phabuilder Set to Launch Marine-Degradable Straws and Cutlery

New alliance is goint to introduce three remarkable PHA-based product categories: straws, coatings, and injection-molded items into the consumer market

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Alfa Laval and Bisviridi partner to revolutionize biofuel production from organic waste

New, groundbreaking process, developed and patented by Bisviridi, produces Bio Crude, an eco-friendly alternative to oil-based fuels

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2 January 202418 December 2023

Announcing the formation of New Energy Farmers LLC, a biomass aggregation company

Because top-quality biomass is critical to efficient refinery operation and delivery of climate-healing products, over the past decade the New Energy Aggregation System was developed to assure a continuous supply of clean, dry stover in tight, compact bales

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12 December 20237 December 2023

The University of Manchester and Shell partner to bring more sustainable chemical manufacturing to market

The SuCCEED project will look to find new ways of manufacturing the chemicals needed for many every-day products through industrial biotechnology routes

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8 December 20236 December 2023

Releasing Brakes on Biocatalysis

Formaldehyde can inhibit enzymes that produce hydrogen particularly efficiently. Researchers from Bochum have discovered how this can be prevented

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7 December 20232 December 2023

Unlocking the green potential: Transforming industrial CO2 into acetone with carbon capture and utilisation technology

PyroCO2 is developing carbon capture and utilisation technology for climate-positive solutions in European chemical production

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6 December 20231 December 2023

SmartProSys: New Methods and Approaches for Process Engineering in future Chemical Industry

Team of scientists around Prof. Kai Sundmacher at MPI Magdeburg is participating in SmartProSys research initiative - Smart Process Systems for a Green Carbon-based Chemical Production in a Sustainable Society

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5 December 202329 November 2023

The Swedish bioeconomy startups branching out beyond forestry

Encouraging other forms of feedstock use than wood would be one way to alleviate social conflicts over Sweden’s forestry sector and foster more balanced development in the bioeconomy

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4 December 20234 December 2023

New ways to showcase your activities on Renewable Carbon News

Renewable Carbon News – portal and daily newsletter – is the most targeted way to reach the renewable chemicals and materials sector: bio-based, CO₂-based and advanced recycling

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28 November 20238 January 2024

IDTechEx Discusses the Technology Trends Driving Sustainable Polymers for a Circular Economy

Answering the demand for more sustainable plastics to support the circular economy requires innovations from all stakeholders in the polymer value chain, from the chemical suppliers to the end-users to the recyclers

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27 November 202323 November 2023

Phabuilder Set to Launch Marine-Degradable Straws and Cutlery

With PhaBuilder's expertise and Hengxin Life's position the collaboration seeks to maximize the potential of PHA (Polyhydroxyalkanoates)

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17 November 202313 November 2023

AFRY engineering partner in biorefinery project turning harmful seaweed into valuable products

Origin by Ocean and AFRY have entered a collaborative engineering collaboration to plan an industrial-scale biorefinery for processing bio-based seaweed products in Finland. The conceptual study phases aim to define production concepts and the steps required to construct a biorefinery. Origin by Ocean’s first algae biorefinery in Finland is projected to reach full production capacity by 2027

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16 November 202313 November 2023

DMC opens new lab in Research Triangle Park, NC – New 9,500 Square Foot R&D Facility

The facility is home to DMC’s workflows in strain and metabolic engineering, high throughput testing, as well as bench and pilot scale fermentation

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2 November 202330 October 2023

Firms plan pilot plants for biobased acrylic acid

They all hope to succeed despite false starts to commercialize the process, but there are only few successful - Companies still have more work to do before they can compete with the petrochemical production

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24 October 202317 October 2023

White Biotechnology: Key Technology Trends Reshaping Its Growth

With improvements in biotechnology tools and processes comes the ability to produce everything from commodity chemicals to high-performance materials through white biotechnology

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10 October 20234 October 2023

Co­lour ex­per­ti­se for sustainable, bio-ba­sed reusa­ble trays

Environmentally friendly joint project by GRAFE, ORNAMIN and TECNARO

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2 October 20233 October 2023

Qore to supply bio-BDO to BASF

US-based Qore, a joint venture of Cargill and HELM AG, is building a 65 ktpa corn-based BDO in Iowa under the QIRA® brand using the Geno (formerly Genomatica) processing technology

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28 September 202325 September 2023

Biotech Company MycoWorks Begins Production at the World’s First Commercial-Scale Fine Mycelium™ Plant in Union, South Carolina

Providing the company's luxury leather alternative Reishi™

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BASF obtains long-term access to bio-based1,4-butanediol QIRA

With QIRA from Qore® LLC, BASF will expand its existing offer of BDO derivatives with bio-based variants

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Greener sun protection from plants, bacteria, and algae

A spinoff from OSU developed a bio-sunsreen by using a biosynthesis method to grow the Zebrafish’s anti-UV compound inside the bodies of rapidly reproducing microorganisms

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25 September 202329 September 2023

Be Part of the Chemistry and Materials Industry’s Transition From Fossil to Renewable Carbon!

Abstract Submission is Now Open for the Renewable Materials Conference 2024 (RMC)

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20 September 202318 September 2023

Lummus and RWDC Announce Agreement to Accelerate and Scale PHA Production 

Next phase of partnership will increase global availability and adoption of natural alternative to petroleum-based plastics

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12 September 20237 September 2023

BioUPGRADE: Advancing biocatalysts to enrich the global bioeconomy

Emma Master, PhD, from Aalto University details how the BioUPGRADE project drives state-of-the-art innovations in biocatalysts

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6 September 20234 September 2023

Saudi Arabia: is the country set to become a global biotech hub?

Saudi Arabia seems set to become a global competitive biotech hub; over the next decade, it is expected to become a world leader in biotech research and generate significant economic growth