Posts by Charlotte Mace

Biobased Maine will be attending and exhibiting at the Advanced Bioeconomy Leadership Conference 2017 in Washington DC from March 1-3, 2017. Biobased Maine, represented by its Executive Director Charlotte Mace, along with our partner the University of Maine (Dr. Hemant Pendse and Amy Luce) will be actively marketing Maine’s assets to support biobased manufacturing. We will…

The RFP for the Biomass Feedstock Study (originally due December 2, 2016) has been re-issued and revised with a new due date of January 13, 2017. We encourage local-owned, minority-owned, and female-owned businesses to respond. The following is a brief summary of the project scope: A Biomass Feedstock Study is needed to characterize the different…

Biobased Maine, in partnership with the University of Maine and Environmental Health Strategy Center, is seeking bids for a Global Industrial Sugar Cost Study to thoroughly characterize the current and future production of industrial sugars around the world for use in the manufacture of biobased chemicals, biofuels, and other biobased products. The manufacture of high-quality cellulosic…

Biobased Maine participated in the Wood Innovators Conference in Hiram, Maine this part Saturday October 22. The conference, organized by ForestWorks!, included a panel on advanced biobased products made from wood fiber. Biobased Maine’s Executive Director, Charlotte Mace, spoke on the panel, which was moderated by Dana Doran, Executive Director of the Professional Logging Contractors…

We couldn’t be prouder! Biobased Maine Executive Director Charlotte Mace is on the 2016 Mainebiz NEXT list. She’s one of just 10 people selected in the state for work they’re doing to lift Maine’s economy. Mainebiz told Charlotte she’s on the list because of what she says and does. Charlotte says Maine deserves a share…

Come see the panel on biobased manufacturing at the ForestWorks! Wood Innovators Conference on Saturday October 22 in Hiram, ME. Several Biobased Maine member companies will be speaking on the panel, including GlobEcoMaine (maker of DuraFresh cloths), and Revolution Research (maker of the Arbolate eco-friendly foam-board insulation made from wood fiber. Read more here.

In case you haven’t heard, we have an abundance of wood fiber in Maine, specifically softwood. Depending on who you talk to, there is 3 or 4 MILLION tons of wood fiber just lying around. This is the BAD news. The GOOD news is that there is viable technology coming on-line to convert low-quality forest residuals into valuable sugars.…