Avantium N.V., a leading company in renewable and circular polymer materials, announced significant progress in its collaboration with leading textile innovators to develop PEF (polyethylenefuranoate)-based spacer fabric for Auping mattresses. PEF is a plant-based, fully circular polymer material. Recently, a consortium comprising of Auping, Muller Textiles, ANTEX and Monosuisse has successfully developed a PEF-based spacer fabric, a key component in Auping mattresses.
Eni and KKR have closed the transaction contemplated by the investment agreement, announced last February, for the increase of KKR’s stake in Enilive through the purchase of Enilive’s shares from Eni representing 5% of the share capital, for a consideration of approximately 601 million euros.
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Vancouver, Canada, will host the second edition of the Forest Innovation and Bioeconomy Conference on May 6-8 organized by the British Columbia Government. FIBC is a premier event showcasing the development and manufacturing of innovative bio-sourced products and high-value applications. It represents – the organizers say – an opportunity to discover what’s new in innovative bioproduct research and the latest commercialization initiatives and discuss how the Forest Bioeconomy intertwines with other sectors.
Neste and DB Schenker, one of the world’s leading logistics service providers, have collaborated to work towards expanding DB Schenker’s adoption of Neste MY Renewable Diesel™ in Asia-Pacific. This partnership underscores the shared commitment of both companies to progress towards lower-emission logistics.
Catania will be the Mediterranean capital of bioeconomy from June 4 to June 6. In the Italian city located at the heart of Southern Europe will take place the first edition of the BioINSouth Forum, hosted by the Aula Magna of the University of Catania.
Gregory Jaffe was Senior Advisor for Regulatory Affairs in the Office of the Secretary at USDA during the Biden Administration. He is now Founder and President of a policy consulting firm based in Washington DC, specializing in agriculture, food, environmental, and climate policy, both domestic and international.
In this exclusive interview with Il Bioeconomista, he talks about the prospects for the bioeconomy in the United States under the new Trump Administration and the relations between the United States and the European Union in this new era of tariffs.
“The Trump Administration – Jaffe says – will need to ensure the United States has an enabling environment that supports biotechnology, biomanufacturing, and the bioeconomy”.
Interview by Mario Bonaccorso
dsm-firmenich, the Dutch multinational company active in nutrition, health, and beauty, sold its stake in the Feed Enzymes Alliance to its equal partner Novonesis, a global leader in biosolutions, for €1.5 billion. The dsm-firmenich activities to be sold under this transaction to Novonesis represented in 2024 approximately €300 million in total annual net sales. Novonesis will continue a long-term commercial relationship with the Animal Nutrition & Health business, for the re-sale of its feed enzymes through the Animal Nutrition & Health world-class premix network.
Futerro, a Belgian company specialised in the production of lactic acid, lactide (two platform molecules) and PLA (polylactic acid), has launched the engineering and the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) – called “Avant-Projet Détaillé” in French – for its future European biorefinery to be located at Saint-Jean-de-Folleville between Rouen and Le Havre.
Tomorrow starts in Brussels BioKET, the international conference organized by the French Bioeconomy Cluster, Bioeconomy for Change (B4C). BIOKET, short for BIOeconomy Key Enabling Technologies, is a global event dedicated to the processes and technologies applied to biomass. BIOKET – B4C states – was founded in 20018 to fill a niche in highlighting the Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) that are essential for transforming biomass into high value added products.
UPM Timber has launched a carbon storage calculator on its website. With the carbon storage calculator, wood industry professionals, UPM Timber’s customers and consumers can easily calculate the amount of carbon sequestered in wood raw material and examine its climate impacts.
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