Hyosung, The Lycra Company and Yulex are pouring millions into bio-based elastane made from sugarcane, corn and rubber - and counting on progress, not perfection, to solve fashion's stretch problem.

BASF (XTRA:BAS) has introduced new bio-based personal care and fragrance ingredients, including SkinNexus Collag3n and ...

This article is authored by Rajen Bhagyoday, founder, Greendot Biopak Pvt. Ltd.

A new bio-based hot glue derived from a byproduct of the wood pulp industry beats traditional epoxy resins and commercial hot-melt glues in terms of adhesive performance. Researchers from Beijing ...

A KAIST research team completed a metabolic map that charts all available strategies and pathways of chemical reactions that lead to the production of various industrial bio-based chemicals. The team ...

From luxury fashion to mattress foam, brands made swaps for plant-based inputs.

The Brazilian bio-based ethylene facility is now operating at a capacity of 260 thousand tons per year. The celebrated expansion of the world’s first, industrial scale, bio-polyethylene comes thirteen ...

In the inevitable shift away from fossil fuels, Genomatica announced the first commercial production of bio-based nylon. Companies that seize the economic and environmental advantages of ...

After being used for military purposes during the Civil War, coal was first used to generate electricity for homes and factories in the 1880s. As a fossil fuel, coal played an important role in the ...

A report compiled by international biopolymer expert group nova-Institut GmbH (Hürth, Germany) provides an overview of capacities and production volumes for 17 commercially available bio-based ...