Category: M&A, Corporate and Financial News
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DOE Announces $156 Million for Applied Research and Development Projects to Drive Industrial Decarbonization
The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy announced a $156 million funding opportunity that will advance high impact applied research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) projects to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the U.S. industrial sector.
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NatureWorks Opens Office in Bangkok
NatureWorks announced the opening of a new office in the Asia Pacific region on February 2, 2023.
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Yield10 Bioscience 2022 Results
Yield10 Bioscience Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2022 Financial Results
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Bio-on is Back (FREE)
The return of the PHA World Champion … Bio-on. The name of Bio-on has been cleared and the company has been reinstated. Bio-on is back in business. This is a FREE article
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Amazon Climate Pledge Fund Invests in Genecis
Why Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund is investing in this entrepreneur and her plastic waste solution
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INEOS Secures €3.5 billion Financing for Project One – The Greenest Cracker in Europe.
Project ONE is the largest investment in the European chemical sector for a generation.
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Inca Renewtech Receives Millions in Funding
Alberta Announces $58 Million for Circular Economy Projects Worth $528 Million in Public and Private Investment: INCA Renewtech Awarded $10M
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Investment in Next-Gen Materials Halved in 2022
Start-ups developing new materials like mushroom and lab-grown leather raised $457 million in 2022, down from $980 million in 2021,
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BlackRock Increases Position in Danimer Scientific (DNMR)
Fintel reports that BlackRock has filed a 13G/A form with the SEC disclosing ownership of 5.97MM shares of Danimer Scientific Inc (DNMR).
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DOE Announces $25.5 Million to Improve Biofuels and Bioproducts
Reducing Agricultural Carbon Intensity and Protecting Algal Crops (RACIPAC)
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Kelpi Lands £3m Seed Funding Round
Climate tech innovator Kelpi has secured more than GBP 3 million fundraising to advance its pioneering technology creating biomaterial coatings from seaweed.
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BC Biocarbon and Ripple Partner on Biochar Carbon Removal Credits
BC Biocarbon and Ripple Announce $6.7M CAD Purchase of Biochar Carbon Removal Credits. Multi-Year Agreement to Supply High-Quality Verified CO2 Removal Certificates — Carbon trading and net zero schemes are environmental scams. Cryptocurrencies are hollow and are just another platform for gambling. So they need to give some “content” (through smart contracts etc) to avoid…
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Maire Tecnimont (NextChem) Buys Conser
Maire Tecnimont acquires the majority stake of Conser, an Italian high-value derivatives and biodegradable plastic by-products technology licensor, through Nextchem Holding
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Forbes Article on Ginkgo Bioworks
Ginkgo Bioworks Fires Up Its Bio Foundry To Take On The Billion-Dollar Enzyme Market
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The EU Chemical Ponzi Scheme (FREE)
How EU institutions are complicit of transferring billions of EU tax payer money into the pockets of wealthy powerful chemical companies. In the meantime, the tax rate of EU citizen keep raising. It’s a remake of the feudal system.
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Inscripta Buys Infinome Biosciences and Sestina Bio
Inscripta® Acquires Infinome Biosciences And Sestina Bio To Advance Sustainable Biomanufacturing
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Companies Parachute Accountants in to Fix Flawed ESG Data
Emissions information lags behind financial statements of groups facing new reporting mandates
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Borealis Buys Majority Stake in Renasci
Borealis acquires a majority stake in Renasci signalling on-going commitment to leading the transformation to a circular economy
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CBE JU Funding Priorities for 2023
CBE JU has published its Annual Work Programme for 2023, including information about the next call for project proposals. €215.5 million will be dedicated to advancing competitive circular bio-based industries in Europe across 18 topics.
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Synbio Powerlabs Secures Millions for Precision Fermentation
Synbio Powerlabs Secures € 6.6 Million Funding To Build A Revolutionary Biotechnology Plant For Precision Fermentation
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TotalEnergies Launches Largest French Anaerobic Digestion Unit
Biogas in France: TotalEnergies commissions BioBéarn, the country’s largest anaerobic digestion unit
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Bain Capital Invests in Biorefinery
Bain Capital completes significant equity investment in EcoCeres
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Xampla is Listed in 2023 Global Cleantech 100
Experts in drop-in, high performance replacements for single-use plastic, Xampla, has been named one of the world’s most promising global cleantech companies in the annual ranking.
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VTT Project BioCarbonValue for BioCarbon Development
VTT-led joint research project received over a million euros in funding for upgrading agricultural sidestreams into biocarbon for high-value applications
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Versalis Acquires DSM Proesa Technology
Versalis, new technology to produce enzymes for second generation ethanol
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Green Bioactives Completes £2.6m Seed Financing for Plant Products Biomanufacturing Platform
Green Bioactives Ltd (‘GBL’), a world-leader in the discovery, development and sustainable production of high-value natural products derived from plant cell cultures, announces that it has successfully completed a £2.6 million seed financing round.
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Global Sciences Stops Pure Bioplastics Acquisition
Global Sciences and Pure BioPlastics Inc., Terminates the Letter of Intent for Acquisition
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TSU Receives Grant for Hemp Research
Tsu Receives $5 Million Grant That Could Lead To State Being Top Hemp Grower In Region
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Request for Information; National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative
The first RFI, National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative, seeks public input on how advances in biotechnology and biomanufacturing can help the country achieve goals that were previously out of reach and what steps can be taken to ensure we have the necessary research ecosystem, workforce, data, domestic biomanufacturing capacity, international engagement, and other components to…
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US DOE Funds Project for Caribbean Seaweed
The Caribbean Is Swimming in Seaweed. Scientists Aim To Turn It Into Jet Fuel and Batteries
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Five V Buys 30 % of BioPak
Private equity group Five V Capital has agreed terms to take a 30 per cent stake in Australian born-and-bred packaging brand BioPak.
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Futamura Invests in Natureflex Production Capacity
Futamura is making a big investment to a new production line as demand increase for its NatureFlex compostable films.
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Trillium Raises $10.6 million for Bio Acrylonitrile and Acetonitrile
Trillium Renewable Chemicals (www.trilliumchemicals.com) announced today it has raised a $10.6M Series A financing round.
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China Biodegradable Tableware Startup Secures New Funding
In China, demand for disposable tableware is growing along with the food delivery market.
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Kutee Kitties to Raise Money for Bioplastics
Kutee Kitties is a collection of non-fungible tokens(NFTs), but one with a rather strong cause– to save the world from plastic.
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LG Chem Invests in Chemical Recycling in South Korea
LG Chem Spurs Investments in Future Materials in Dangjin, Chungnam
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Yield10 Bioscience Q3 2022 Results
Yield10 Bioscience Announces Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results
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Imperial College London Secures Grant to Develop Sustainable Materials
Imperial College London will lead a collaboration between industrial and academics partners to develop functional materials from biowaste products.
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Biotic Raises $ 2M for Bioplastics
Biotic Raises €2m Seed Round to Commodify Biodegradable Plastic Materials
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UCSB Funded for Marine Degradable Plastics
A collaboration to develop biodegradable oceangoing bioplastics receives Convergence Accelerator Phase 2 funding from NSF
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Is TupperWare Going Bankrupt?
TupperWare revolutionised the post war world of women with lightweight, reusable, unbreakable and sealable plastic containers … and the unique selling method … the TupperWare parties … who may have helped the emancipation of women.
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Cruz Foam Secures $18 M for Chitin Based Packaging
Cruz Foam’s chitin-based packaging brings in $18M
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Modifying Poplar for Bioproducts
Research team receives $15.8M to modify poplar for bioproducts
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Colorado Invests in Vertical Farming and Hemp Bioplastics
State approves incentives for hemp bioplastics, vertical-farm equipment firms in NoCo — Is vertical farming the solution to deal with all the negative effects of intensive agriculture? Maybe it is!
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MGI Launches TAC, Sustainable Plastic Distribution Company
MGI International, a leader in plastic resin distribution, launched a full-service distribution company The Aspect Company (TAC) focused exclusively on sustainable resins. TAC helps manufacturers integrate sustainable materials through sourcing, warehousing, logistics, and technical support.
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WSU to Research Biodegradable and Recyclable Agricultural Mulch Films
New grant aims to reduce plastic taken from fields to landfills
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Dow Remarkable Bioplastics Strategy
Dow takes a remarkable and very well articulated stance on bioplastics. Not the usual dogma and bullying that we’re used to see in bioplastic land. I have to say that DOW has made an impression on me over time. Dow seems to be bringing moral to the table.
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What’s Really Happening to Fossil Assets?
A lot of attention is given to investors opting to divest from fossil fuel or carbon intensive assets. Comparatively little focus is on who purchases these assets — I knew there was something fishy about the “anti-fossil”; now there’s even a doctrine … why hide it when you can indoctrinate it? It’s all about transferring…
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Rutger University Spins Off RenewCO2
CO2 to Chemicals Startup RenewCO2, Spins out of Rutgers University with Seed Round from Energy Transition Ventures
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New Zealand Invests in Plastic innovation
Government backs initiatives to cut environmental impact of plastic waste
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Bucha Bio Closes $1.1 Million Seed Round
Kombucha-Based Leather and Plastic Manufacturer Bucha Bio Closes $1.1 Million Seed Round
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Sinking Seaweed to Capture Carbon and Clean Up Caribbean Coasts
UK Startup, Seaweed Generation, obtains $1M funding from Global investors Aera VC and Graph Ventures, to sink seaweed, capture carbon and preserve the Caribbean coasts.
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CropEnergies Acquires Syclus
CropEnergies acquires stake in Dutch biobased chemicals start-up Syclus
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North Dakota Plant to Convert Methane into PHB
North Dakota may potentially build a plant converting methane into biodegradable plastics
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Valerian Materials Funded for Bioplastics Research
A St. Louis Park-based startup has received about $1.2 million to advance its technology that transforms simple sugars to bio-derived plastics.
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Bridgestone Invests in Biobased Feedstock
Bridgestone Aims to Commercialize Natural Rubber from Desert Shrubs by 2030
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Technip Energies Buys Biosuccinium Tech from DSM
Technip Energies Acquires Biosuccinium® Technology from DSM for Bio-Sourced and Fully Biodegradable Polymers Production
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Sulzer Invests in Cellicon
Sulzer acquires stake in CELLiCON to scale up groundbreaking technology for renewable biopolymer
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Agilyx Goes on the Main Board of Euronext Oslo Børs
Agilyx successfully lists on the main list of Oslo Børs
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US Invests in Bioindustrial Manufacturing Innovation, Education and Collaboration Projects
BioMADE at White House Summit on the National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative; Announces 9 New Projects, $20.6 Million, to Advance Bioindustrial Manufacturing Innovation and Education
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Yield10 Bioscience Q2 2022 Results
Yield10 Bioscience Announces Second Quarter 2022 Financial Results
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Maip to Buy Bio-on (FREE)
MAIP made an offer to buy Bio-on, probably the best deal in the history of bioplastics. This is a FREE article
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Novolex Invests $10 Million in Mechanical Recycling (FREE)
Investment will enable the facility to recycle even more plastics bags and other polyethylene film, producing up to 28 million pounds of recycled material annually. This is a FREE article
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Almi Invest Greentech and Cellfion Partner on Biobased Membranes for Energy Storage
Almi Invest GreenTech invests in Cellfion, which makes it environmentally friendly to store energy
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New Zealand PHA Startup Receives Government Investment
New Zealand Bio-Innovation company Plentyful has broken ground on a world-leading facility that will transform organic waste into compostable, environmentally friendly plastic alternatives.
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Update on the Most Bizarre Bioplastic Merger
Let me resume, they found $ 100 million Dollar in the closet of a bioplastic company … that had not yet been created. Those guys know how to make an entry. I mean, what is their next step? Going into politics? It gives you an idea of the current bioplastic Eldorado.
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UAE and Shell to Buy Third Largest Sugarcane Processor
Mubadala & Raizen in final round to buy BP-Bunge Brazilian ethanol venture
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TimePlast Launches Public Offering for Water Soluble Polymers
Timeplast Launches SEC-Regulated Public Offering Of Groundbreaking Water Soluble Alternative To Plastic
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Constructive Bio Launched to Develop Biomaterials
Constructive bio launches with $15m seed investment to re-engineer biology, creating new classes of enzymes, pharmaceuticals and biomaterials
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Yunhong Launches Yunhong Biotechnology for Compostable
Yunhong CTI Ltd. Announces the Arrival of Yunhong Biotechnology, Inc.
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Bluestem Biosciences Raises $5 Millions
Bluestem Biosciences, A Sustainable Chemicals Startup, Closes $5 Million Pre-Seed Funding to Scale Discovery Through Industrial Anaerobic Fermentation
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Canada Invests $1.8 million in Green Economy
The Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, the Honourable Marie-Claude Bibeau, announced today an investment of over $1.8 million under the AgriAssurance Program to assist Bioindustrial Innovation Canada to further develop quality standards to accelerate growth of the bioeconomy in the agriculture sector.
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Genecis Raises $10 Millions
Genecis Raises Us$10 Million In Funding To Commercialize Biodegradable Plastic Products
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Cyclyx Invests in New Recycling Lab
Cyclyx commissions new plastics laboratory in New Hampshire, expanding waste plastic processing capabilities
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Huue Receives Funding for Biobased Dyes
Synthetic Bio Startup Huue Secures $14.6M Series A to Launch The World’s First Clean & Scalable Indigo Dye
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Insempra Invests in Solena Materials
Strategic investment to support the foundation of Solena Materials, a spin-out from Imperial College London, accelerating the development of synthetic fibers for high-performance, intrinsically sustainable clothing
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Great Wrap Raises Millions for Compostable Films
Great Wrap receives international investment to innovate materials and solve global waste problems
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Shell Chemicals Goes Net Zero and Sustainable Chemicals
Shell Chemicals Park Moerdijk Accelerates Transition To Become Net Zero Emissions And Produce More Sustainable Chemicals
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Indonesia Impact Fund Invests in Greenhope
The Indonesia Impact Fund (IIF) officially funds biotechnology startups . Greenhope is a plastic producer made from environmentally friendly natural raw materials ( biodegradable – bioplastic ) by utilizing cassava or cassava.
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Danimer Application for DOE Grant Update
Danimer Scientific Invited to Submit Part II Application for DOE Loan Guarantee
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Bangladesh Scientist Invents Jute Cellulose and Polymer Bags
The scientist is looking for funding to scale up production.
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Bio-Sep Scale Up
Bio-Sep secures $1.7 Million for our green-tech that turns sawdust into sustainable biochemicals, from investors including London Business School’s Enterprise 100 investment club and ACF Investors, with additional participation from a hedge fund that specialises in climate and clean energy technology.
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Versalis Business Plan for Trade Unions
Versalis presents 2022-2025 business plan to trade unions
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Shell Orders Bio Isobutene from Global Bioenergies
Global Bioenergies secures first order from Shell for testing volumes of bio-isobutene derivatives
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NATO Innovation Fund
On Thursday (30 June 2022), at a signing ceremony hosted by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Leaders and Ministers from 22 Allied countries* launched NATO’s Innovation Fund, the world’s first multi-sovereign venture capital fund.
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Eco Safety Buys Soy Technologies to Expand Biobased Coatings Business
Eco Safety, Inc Acquires Soy Technologies, LLC to Expand its Bio-Based Coatings and Methylene Chloride Alternatives
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University of Bath Microbeads Startup Receives Million
Spin-out company aiming to replace harmful plastic microbeads receives £1.3M investment
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Lignin Industries Funded by EU Innovation Fund
Spinverse helped Lignin Industries secure 4.4 M€ from Innovation Fund to expand their production of bio-based materials
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Mojia Biotech Raises Millions for Bio Materials Production
Mojia Biotech Completes Series B Financing to Advance Manufacturing of Bio-based Materials
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Economic Attributes of Green Fiscal Spending
How Stimulating Is a Green Stimulus? The Economic Attributes of Green Fiscal Spending
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CropEnergies Buys Stake in LXP Group
CropEnergies AG, Mannheim, has acquired a stake in LXP Group GmbH, Teltow (Germany), at the end of May 2022. For approx. EUR 2 million, CropEnergies secured just under 20 percent of the Brandenburg-based biotech startup as part of a capital increase.
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SKC Sells PE Film Business to Focus on PBAT
SKC sells plastic film business to private equity — It’s completely nuts to gamble everything on PBAT. Especially, when PE may well be the first and only plastic to reach circular status.
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Financial Sector to Push for Net Zero
GFANZ Launches Asia-Pacific Network to Support Asia-Pacific Financial Institutions’ Move to Net Zero — The Net Zero initiative is to monetise the environment, biodiversity and ecosystems. It’s the apogee of greed. Net Zero is a greenwashing scheme like the “recycling” movement of the 1980s and 1990s. It’s more about making money than really solving environmental…
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BlackRock Officially Enters the Circular Business
Closed Loop Partners’ Leadership Fund Continues to Buy and Build Circular Economy Businesses that Mitigate Waste and Strengthen Circular Supply Chains — The Circular Movement has never really been about the environment; it’s about business …. as usual. Greed is deeply rooted into human nature …. it’s our achilles’ heel.
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CBE JU Funding Priorities for 2022
Today CBE JU published its Annual Work Programme, including information about the 2022 call for project proposals — Or shall we say … how to give money to friends and friends of friends? A remake of the feudal system.
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