Tag: Massachusetts

CJ Biomaterials taps Matmerize for biopolymer-optimizing AI

April 8, 2024 | Rebecca Gendron

In Massachusetts, CJ Biomaterials has successfully used Matmerize’s artificial intelligence technology to optimize polyhydroxyalkanoates biopolymers. Spun out of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Matmerize’s PolymRize™ platform uses virtual screening and AI algorithms to identify the most optimal materials, accelerating the materials engineering process and saving valuable time and resources. In a recent collaboration with Matmerize, […]

CJ Biomaterials enables completely biodegradable plastic bottle cap

April 1, 2024 | Rebecca Gendron

In Massachusetts, CJ Biomaterials, a leading producer of polyhydroxyalkanoates, said its bioplastic is being used by California’s Beyond Plastic to develop the world’s first completely biodegradable plastic bottle cap. Derived from nature and produced sustainably, PHAs work well as modifiers to other polymers or biopolymers and serve to increase biobased content, accelerate biodegradation, and improve […]

MIT chemical engineers convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide more efficiently

March 28, 2024 | Meghan Sapp

In Massachusetts, MIT chemical engineers have devised an efficient way to convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide, a chemical precursor that can be used to generate useful compounds such as ethanol and other fuels. If scaled up for industrial use, this process could help to remove carbon dioxide from power plants and other sources, reducing […]

World Energy invited to submit U.S. Department of Energy loan guarantee application

March 24, 2024 | Juan Pedro Tomas

In Massachusetts, World Energy announced it has been invited by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to submit the Part II Application for an approximately $2 billion loan guarantee through the Title 17 Clean Energy Financing Program. The Title 17 program, offered through the DOE’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) and established by the Energy Policy […]

Yield10 Bioscience gets USDA approval for its GM camelina

March 21, 2024 | Meghan Sapp

In Massachusetts, Yield10 Bioscience announced that USDA-APHIS’s Biotechnology Regulatory Services has determined that Yield10’s Camelina sativa varieties developed using genetic engineering (modified Camelina) to produce omega-3 fatty acids are not subject to the regulations under 7 CFR part 340, and may be grown and bred in the United States. The global markets for omega-3 fatty […]

World Energy invited to submit Part II application for $2B DOE loan guarantee

March 19, 2024 | Meghan Sapp

In Massachusetts, World Energy has been invited by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to submit the Part II Application for an approximately $2 billion loan guarantee through the Title 17 Clean Energy Financing Program. The Title 17 program, offered through the DOE’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) and established by the Energy Policy Act of […]

Keurig unveils plant-based coating that will replace its ubiquitous K cup pods

March 18, 2024 | Rebecca Gendron

In Massachusetts, Keurig Dr Pepper has unveiled a more sustainable vision for the future of single-serve coffee pods, which have boomed in popularity thanks to their convenience but are associated with significant plastics waste. Keurig’s vision is based on its K-Rounds™ plastic-free pods, a revolutionary new form of single serve coffee. K-Rounds pods are created […]

Sappi North America and Biophilica partner to improve plant-based leather

March 18, 2024 | Rebecca Gendron

In Massachusetts, Biophilica, the company behind Treekind plastic-free leather alternative, is using products from paper and pulp company Sappi, to make Treekind look and feel more realistic. Specifically, Biophilica is applying Sappi’s high-fidelity, 3D, leather grain solution to impart texture to Treekind through the application of Sappi’s Ultracast Viva® release paper. “Inclusion of plastic-containing coatings […]

Yield10 Bioscience says camelina responding to herbcides as expected

February 29, 2024 | Meghan Sapp

In Massachusetts, Yield10 Bioscience reported that its proprietary varieties of winter Camelina sativa (“Camelina”) in development responded as expected to herbicides in the first field tests conducted in the United States. Yield10 tested winter Camelina engineered with tolerance to glufosinate (“HT”), an herbicide widely used to manage weeds and protect yields in crop rotations in […]

Yield10 Bioscience licenses herbicide tolerant camelina to VISION Bioenergy Oilseeds

February 14, 2024 | Meghan Sapp

In Massachusetts, Yield10 Bioscience, Inc. and VISION Bioenergy Oilseeds, LLC announced that Yield10 has granted to VISION a global license to certain proprietary varieties of Camelina sativa (“Camelina”) for the production of feedstock oil for biofuels. By facilitating the large-scale commercial production of herbicide tolerant Camelina, this license agreement is intended to empower farmers to […]