Acme-Hardesty Co. announced that a number of its distributed products now carry the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Certified Biobased Product Label, in support of the USDA BioPreferred® program.
AkzoNobel has joined forces with SuikerUnie, Rabobank, Deloitte, Investment and Development Agency for the Northern Netherlands (NOM), Groningen Seaports, and the Province of Groningen, to investigate the possibility of producing chemicals from beet-derived sugar feedstock.
Verdezyne Inc., a privately held industrial biotechnology company focused on producing renewable chemicals, has reached an agreement with Bio-XCell Malaysia to construct Verdezyne’s first commercial-scale renewable chemicals manufacturing facility in Bio-XCell’s biotechnology and ecosystem park in Nusajaya, Iskandar, in southern Malaysia.
Green Biologics Ltd. (GBL), a UK-based industrial biotechnology and renewable chemicals company, was named to the 40 Hottest Smaller Companies in the Advanced Bio-Economy list (#6) and to the 30 Hottest Companies in Bio-based Chemicals and Materials list (#28).
In addition to its production capacity of about 10,000 tonnes per year out of the Cassano, Italy, Biosuccinium™ plant, Reverdia announced at the European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology (EFIB) that it is now licensing Biosuccinium.
Following its recent acquisition of the U.S.-based biotechnology company Virdia, Stora Enso is investing €32 million in a demonstration and market development plant to be built in Raceland, Louisiana.
