Posts by Biobased Maine
Ben & Jerry’s Joins Major Global Brands Phasing Out Petroleum-Based Plastics
Ben & Jerry’s is committed to phasing out all single-use plastics, the company announced earlier this year, replacing plastic spoons and straws in its 600+ Scoop Shops worldwide with wooden spoons and paper straws by April 2019 as a first step. Ben & Jerry’s joins other corporate leaders in phasing out plastics made from petroleum,…
Read MoreOcean Organics Producing High Value Product Using Seaweed
In February, Biobased Maine visited member company Ocean Organics for a tour of its facility in Waldoboro, Maine. Founded in 1991, Ocean Organics is a specialty fertilizer manufacturing and seaweed processing company. The Ocean Organics proprietary extraction technologies produce high performance seaweed extracts from the seaweed specie Ascophyllum nodosum (wild harvested rockweed). Ocean Organics has…
Read MoreMaine Development Foundation Recognizes Biobased Maine Executive Director Charlotte Mace
The Maine Development Foundation (MDF) awarded Biobased Maine executive director Charlotte Mace the 2018 Champion for Economic Development for Innovation Award at its 40th anniversary celebration on October 25, recognizing Charlotte’s work and leadership at Biobased Maine to bring the emerging global bioeconomy to Maine. At the awards ceremony, MDF praised Biobased Maine’s achievements in…
Read MoreWe’re Headed to ABLC Global!
Next month, we’re off to San Francisco for the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference (ABLC) 2018, a major global biotechnology conference on the most important issues in the bioeconomy right now. We’ll be attending in partnership with FOR/Maine. At the conference, we’ll take part in meetings with industry leaders from across the country and the world.…
Read MoreCongratulations to Our Katahdin on $5.3 Million Grant
Congratulations to Biobased Maine member Our Katahdin on its $5.3 million grant to invest in critical infrastructure at the former Great Northern Paper Mill site in Millinocket. “Our number one goal is to bring back jobs to the area. We knew that a major investment in the core infrastructure was needed to attract companies and…
Read MoreA Second Golden Age for Maine’s Forests
Biobased Maine joined industry leaders, experts, community members, and other major stakeholders at the University of Maine in Orono on Tuesday to announce a new vision to grow Maine’s forest industry 40 percent, from $8.5 billion to $12 billion annually by 2025—by diversifying its wood products, attracting new investment, and developing economic prosperity for communities…
Read MoreWelcome New Member Robbins Lumber
Please join us in welcoming new Biobased Maine member Robbins Lumber! Quality and innovation go back a long way at Robbins Lumber. When Frank and Otis Robbins first opened their small stave mill on the St. George River in 1881, it was only the beginning. Today, Robbins Lumber is a vertically integrated forest products firm…
Read MoreWhat’s Fast and Made of Plants? A Biobased Car
Making a car from plants sounds impossible. But it’s not only possible—it’s been done before. As far back as 1941, in fact, Henry Ford unveiled the world’s first bioplastic car. Ford’s car used bioplastic made from soybeans for the body. “The finished car weighed 1,000 pounds less than its conventional all-steel counterpart,” author and environmentalist…
Read MorePresentations at the 2018 BIO World Congress
Last week, Biobased Maine traveled to Philadelphia for the 25th annual BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology. At the major industry conference, representatives of Biobased Maine, Biofine Technology, LLC, and the University of Maine Forest Bioproducts Institute gave presentations on Maine’s unique assets and opportunities to an audience of national and international industry leaders and…
Read MoreRequest for Information: Forest Industry Technologies
Issue Date: June 14, 2018 Due Date: July 20, 2018 Click here to download the RFI. RFI Purpose and Goals: The Maine Technology Institute is collecting publicly available information on technologies that could be deployed within Maine’s forest industry. The purpose of this RFI is to encourage technology companies to submit preliminary information on their…
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