In New York, Alicia Silverstone has posed nude for a PETA ad encouraging adoption of plant-based leather alternatives. Featuring the tagline “I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Animals,” the ad shows Silverstone wearing nothing but began leather boots in a field of cacti. Additional text reads: “Don’t be a prick. Wear Vegan. Buy Cactus, Mushroom, […]
In Korea, a K-Beauty brand owned by retailer Olive Young is offering compact makeup cushions made from biobased polyhydroxyalkanoates and polylactic acid. Usually, the powder-purveying cushion is made of acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene. Developed in partnership with CJ Biomaterials, a division of South Korea’s CJ Cheil Jedang, the compacts will be sold under the private label WakeMake at […]
In France, a company called Scalite has developed a ceramic tile alternative made from fish scales. According to a profile by online publication Inhabitat, cofounder and Royal College of Art in London graduate Erik de Laurens invented Scalite while trying to revitalize manufacturing in the Basque region of France, where traditional tile-making was a dying […]
In Vienna, carbon dioxide-to-food-ingredients startup Arkeon Biotechnologies has added €4 million (US$4.3 million) to a €6.5 million seed funding announced last March. The company uses gas fermentation to convert carbon dioxide into essential amino acids. Producing the same amount of protein conventionally would require almost 100 times the amount of land. “We are very pleased […]
In California, BioLab Studio has created a system in which mycelium materials are grown on 3D-printed natural scaffolds and maintained by robotic arms. Dubbed Bio Scaffold, studio founder Natalie Alima tells dezeen she hopes the concept will accelerate circularity. “I was interested in architecture that biodegrades back to the earth and is intended to be […]
In Denmark, a company developing precision fermentation routes to food and beverage aroma ingredients has raised 45 million Danish kroner (US$6.4 million). EvodiaBio is targeting the non-alcoholic beer segment first with its Yops monoterpenoid aroma blend, which is produced using yeast cells that secrete the individual aroma components and are then combined to mimic the […]
In Sweden, cell-free biomanufacturing technology company EnginZyme has raised €21 million (US$22 million). The Series B funding will be used to accelerate commercialization of the company’s platform, which leverages enzymes and the efficiency of the chemical industry. “By replacing traditional fossil-based manufacturing with its patented cell-free technology platform, the company seeks to accelerate the shift […]
In Colorado, Global Sciences, Inc. has terminated the letter of intent with Pure Vision Technologies to acquire 100% of Pure BioPlastics Inc., its renewable plastics subsidiary based in Ft. Lupton, Colorado. “Both companies worked tirelessly to accomplish the diligence that would lead to the execution of a Definitive Agreement; however, it has been mutually decided […]
In Azerbaijan, AzerNews reported that the Minister of Industry and Infrastructural Development of Kazakhstan Kairbek Uskenbayev and the representatives of CITIC Construction and China Huanqiu Contracting & Engineering, reached an agreement to construct a methanol plant in Kazakhstan. The total cost of the project is $140 million. The plant will have an output of 130,000 […]
In Australia, Iberdrola Australia and hydrogen developer ABEL Energy announced they will build a green hydrogen and green methanol production plant at Bell Bay in northern Tasmania. The project, called Bell Bay Powerfuels, is backed by the Australian government and will involve an investment of $1.16 billion. Bell Bay Powerfuels will produce 200,000 tons of […]
