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News and Trends 10 Apr 2018

Microbes Come to the Rescue to Reduce Hospital Waste

Hospital waste management is no laughing matter, given that one hospital bed can produce up to 0.5 kg of waste per day. A Dutch technology is using microbes to optimize the process with anaerobic digestion. We look to hospitals and our healthcare systems at large for treatment and reassurance when we are sick, but it […]

April 10, 2018 - 2 minutesmins - By Alexander Burik

News and Trends 27 Oct 2017

French Biotech Gets Together with L’Oréal to Clean up our Streets

Carbios and L’Oréal have had enough of the plastics bags and packaging littering our streets and will form a consortium for the bio-recycling of plastic on an industrial scale. Today, you’ll struggle to walk along a street without seeing plastic bottles, bags, and wrappers dropped by the wayside… but thankfully, help is at hand. Carbios, […]

October 27, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Alex Dale

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News and Trends 15 Sep 2017

Bayer Launches Plant Microbiome Biotech with a Huge €84M Series A

Bayer and Ginkgo Bioworks are launching a new company that will develop new technologies for sustainable agriculture by engineering the plant microbiome. With the microbiome already gaining traction in the therapeutics field, Bayer has decided to take it to agriculture. In partnership with US synthetic biology upstart Ginkgo Bioworks, the German giant is creating a new […]

September 15, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

More News! 27 Jun 2017

Green Biotech Enters Partnership to Advance the Infinite Recycling of Plastics

Carbios has teamed up with TechnipFMC in order to move Carbios’ enzymatic recycling process for PET plastics from the laboratory to the pilot scale. French Carbios is looking to combat the limits of current thermo-mechanical recycling processes using an enzyme-based degradation process that paves the way to infinite recycling of PET. The annual production of PET, one […]

June 27, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Melanie De Almeida

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News and Trends 13 Apr 2017

Belgian Research takes first steps to make Biofuel out of Grass

Researchers from the University of Ghent are using bacteria to turn grass into chemicals for bioplastics and biofuel. Could this process be scaled up to fuel planes? A grass bioconversion project is being developed at the Centre for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET) of the University of Ghent, and it has recently taken an important step forward. […]

April 13, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 31 Mar 2017

French Synbio Company gets ready to break into Cosmetics

After biofuels and carotenoids, Deinove is now moving forward on the cosmetics front. Its engineered microbes can produce a number of interesting chemicals for skin care, and Deinove plans to bring them to market until the end of 2018. Deinove is a key synbio biotech in France and has found a wide range of applications for […]

March 31, 2017 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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 17 Jan 2017

This Leading Gas Distributor from France is Going Bio

Global Bioenergies and Butagaz will collaborate to develop and incorporate renewable energy sources into France’s energy systems. Butagaz, a gas distributor from France, is partnering with Global Bioenergies, a synbio company in Paris that produces biofuel with renewable sources. Butagaz will support Global Bioenergies’ industrial development in exchange for the first batches of bio-isobutene the […]

January 17, 2017 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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

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News and Trends 15 Dec 2016

This Biofuel Company partnered with Audi is about to shake the Oil Market

At Labiotech Refresh we had the opportunity to chat with Marc Delcourt, founder and CEO of Global Bioenergies, a biofuel pioneer challenging the oil market. Global Bioenergies, from France, uses synthetic biology to produce isobutene, the “building block of the chemical industry“. This molecule, currently extracted from oil, is essential for the manufacturing of gasoline, rubber, […]

December 15, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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 18 Oct 2016

How can Cultured Meat solve World Hunger and Global Warming?

What is ‘cultured meat’ and how can it address the most pressing global problems? Let us introduce you to some of the brilliant minds behind it. The world’s population is predicted to reach almost 10 billion by 2050, and we don’t have the resources to feed all of them… yet. The meat industry currently uses 70% of […]

October 18, 2016 - 6 minutesmins - By Clara Rodríguez Fernández

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