Sugar to make soles of sneakers: Start-up towards a fossil-free alternative at industrial scale

Mevaldi successfully closes funding round with HTGF and ICIG Ventures to scale up breakthrough technology for green chemistry

15-Sep-2025 - Dutch biotech company Mevaldi B.V. has closed a funding round with High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and ICIG Ventures, the venture capital unit of International Chemical Investors Group (ICIG). This investment will enable Mevaldi to further scale up its breakthrough technology. This is a crucial ...

AmphiStar secures €12.5m EIC funding to bring its biosurfactants to market

Belgian start-up impresses with sustainable microbial biosurfactants, upcycled from a bio-based waste feedstock

21-Jul-2025 - Belgian biosurfactants developer AmphiStar has been awarded €12.5m in funding following the European Innovation Council’s (EIC) latest evaluation round. The award follows a highly competitive multi-stage application and interview process, which saw EIC consider nearly 1000 proposals from European ...

Engineering biology is expected to disrupt all industries

31-Jul-2024 - Organizations across all sectors are preparing for the transformative impact of engineering biology – the application of principles from biology and engineering, in conjunction with AI and data-driven computational techniques, to create new or redesigned biological systems for valuable purposes. ...

A sustainable bio-industry innovation: product development of bio-based flame retardant additives

ALTANA AG and UB FIGG invest in the Finnish technology company NORDTREAT

24-Jun-2024 - The Finnish sustainability fund UB Forest Industry Green Growth Fund (UB FIGG) and the specialty chemicals group ALTANA are investing in the technology company NORDTREAT. The company specializes in the development and production of innovative, high-performance, and environmentally friendly flame ...

Danone, start-up DMC, Michelin and Crédit Agricole Centre France join forces to create a cutting-edge biotechnology platform

Using precision fermentation to produce sustainable, bio-based materials and ingredients

14-Jun-2024 - Two major French industrial leaders Danone and Michelin, the American start-up DMC Biotechnologies and Crédit Agricole Centre France, a key investor in the region, have agreed to create the Biotech Open Platform to bolster the development of advanced fermentation processes, particularly precision ...

Evonik drives sustainable biosurfactant revolution with inauguration of new facility in Slovakia

First facility worldwide to manufacture industrial-scale rhamnolipid biosurfactants

31-May-2024 - Evonik has officially inaugurated its new sustainable biosurfactant plant together with key customers in Slovakia. The triple-digit million-euro facility is the first worldwide to manufacture industrial-scale quantities of rhamnolipid biosurfactants. These exceptionally high-quality, sustainable ...

Eco-friendly and cost-effective biosurfactants derived from waste

Ghent-based start-up will revolutionize the surfactant market: AmphiStar secures €6 million

02-May-2024 - European CircularBioeconomy Fund (ECBF), Qbic III and Flanders Future Tech Fund (FFTF) havejoined forces to provide a significant boost to Ghent-based start-up AmphiStar.The funding round, led by ECBF, raised €6 million. This will allow AmphiStar toaccelerate the industrialization of its ...

analytica 2024 confirms its position as the world’s leading trade fair for the laboratory sector

Focus on digitalization and sustainability in the lab of the future

15-Apr-2024 - Great atmosphere in the exhibition halls, lively discussions, and crowded aisles characterized analytica 2024, where the international laboratory sector met in Munich from April 9 to 12. 1,066 exhibitors presented their innovations for the entire range of laboratory technology, analysis and ...

Startups with patents and trade marks are 10 times more successful in securing funding

Biotechnology sector leads in the use of patents and trade marks, with nearly half of the sector’s startups seeking these essential rights

19-Oct-2023 - the European Patent Office (EPO) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) have published a new joint study highlighting how much patents and trade marks can boost the success of European startups. The report shows that, on average, startups that possess these two types of ...

analytica 2024 presents the laboratory world of tomorrow

Focus topics are digitization and sustainability

11-Oct-2023 - The international laboratory industry will meet in person again in spring 2024 at analytica in Munich from April 9 to 12. The world’s leading trade fair for laboratory technology, analysis and biotechnology covers the entire spectrum of laboratories in industry and research, and places great ...