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News and Trends 14 Mar 2017

Huge Successful €103M IPO for the Next European Leader in Bioplastics

Avantium has gone public and raised €103M on Euronext Amsterdam and Euronext Bruxelles with Sofinnova Partner as the main shareholder. Avantium, a spin-off from Shell, is developing renewable bioplastics made 100% from plant-based materials with the support of big partners such as Coca-Cola or Danone, for which the Dutch biotech is developing sustainable PlantBottles and yogurt cups, […]

March 14, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 20 Jan 2017

Will Legos go Bio? The Sustainable Future of ‘Greener Toys’

The LEGO group is spending over €100M to replace its current plastic type for a more sustainable one, and there’s a new generation of environmentally-friendly biobased toys cropping up. Are bioplastic toys the future? Lego is an icon, and one with growing power at that. The toy has been adopted as an informal mascot of sorts of STEM […]

January 20, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 11 Jan 2017

Dutch Biotech Takes over Sustainable Coca Cola Bottles Project

Avantium has acquired Liquid Light, getting hold of the last piece of technology it requires to create the next generation of sustainable Coca Cola bottles. Avantium, a spin-off from Shell located in Amsterdam, is one of Coca Cola’s choices to develop its next-generation plastic bottles made 100% from plant-based materials. The biotech is now stepping up […]

January 11, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

Best in Biotech 3 Jan 2017

10 Hot European Biotechs to Observe in 2017 🚀

New year, new list: here are the 10 hottest Biotech companies I will watch closely in 2017 and why. This list is not meant to be comprehensive and is in no particular order. Super-pumped mRNA Therapy BioNTech is Europe’s largest private Biotech with over 500 employees and is one of the three leading mRNA therapy […]

January 3, 2017 - 5 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

Interview 13 Dec 2016

Meet the French Seaweed Startup rethinking Bioplastics

Algopack is a French startup manufacturing bio-based materials made from brown algae. It is the first to use it to develop a new generation of bioplastics. Founded by Rémy Lucas in 2010 and managed by David Coti, Algopack offers a breakthrough innovation using marine natural resources as a unique renewable biomass. The company hopes to […]

December 13, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Nicolas Sainte-Foie

News and Trends 5 Dec 2016

Rethinking Bioplastics: Future Directions in the Industry

Where are bioplastics going? Last week, 300 experts came together in Berlin to “rethink Bioplastics” and their role in the much-hailed circular economy. The diversity of speakers and exhibitors at the 11th edition of the European Bioplastics Conference offers, in itself, an overview of the different fields and players that make up the bioplastics industry. […]

December 5, 2016 - 6 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 28 Sep 2016

Biotech is one of the biggest Employers in Europe

As part of the European Biotech Week, EuropaBio shared yesterday a study revealing that Industrial Biotech has created 486,000 full-time jobs and contributes €31.6B to the EU. This new data emphasizes the huge role that Biotech plays on the continent’s economy. The biotech industry was in the spotlight this week at the European Parliament, where the report was presented, and it […]

September 28, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 20 Sep 2016

This company just turned the lights ON for NanoMed Bioplastic

Bio-ON just patented the first application of bioplastic in nanomedicine with a diagnostic tool for cancer that will grant it access to a whole new market previously inaccessible to this industry. Italy-based Bio-ON is trying to change the world by producing alternative sustainable chemicals and bioplastic materials with industrial applications. Their newest product, minerv BIOMEDS, will be used […]

September 20, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

News and Trends 7 Jul 2016

Engineered Microorganisms now able to directly produce Bioplastics for 3D-Printing

Carbios made a breakthrough in the production of PLA, a common bioplastic. The lactic acid used as molecular ‘building blocks’ were already bio-sourced, but now the plastic can be really produced from scratch with microorganisms. Bioplastics are one of the ways GreenTech is trying to save the world. Some success stories are Bio-On’s potato plastics […]

July 7, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 30 May 2016

French Biodegradable Plastics get 2 new key US Patents

Carbios has been granted two key US patents: One for a novel plastic-degrading microorganism, and another for the creation of plastics with a customised lifespan – which could help bioplastics break into more industrial applications. A Green Chemistry company from the French region of Auvergne, Carbios was founded in 2011 but already has had some major […]

May 30, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 30 Dec 2015

Who Tried to Save the World in 2015? The Coolest Developments in GreenTech this year…

Biofuels, bioplastics, Moss-based drugs and algae for food. All of these are pioneering areas of GreenTech progress this year. So what are the major developments in this forward-thinking field? 1. 100% Biodegradable Potato Plastics The Italian company Bio-On from Bologna is specialized in the production of environmentally sustainable materials, including Minverv PHAs. These are ‘green’ […]

December 30, 2015 - 5 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 3 Dec 2015

Bioplastics Breakthrough: French Cleantech Now Able to Infinitely Recycle PETs!

French Carbios have now managed to adapt their enzymatic bioplastics manufacturing process to make Green PET (polyethylene terephthalate) from the petrochemical PET – one of the most common plastics. Whilst various green initiatives push for better regulation of recycling (a prime example being in Berlin!), in reality only around 10% of plastic collected is actually […]

December 3, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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