As one of the rare mainstream industries that relies on a biobased, renewable, and fossil-free raw material, pulp and paper is poised to dominate. That’s the outlook from Bernard de Galembert, Bioeconomy and Innovation Director at the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI), writing in Bio-Based World News. “It is oftentimes overlooked that the pulp and paper…

We’re only two months away from the annual Maine Science Festival, a four-day celebration of the remarkable science, engineering, mathematics and technology happening in Maine every day. This year’s festival takes place March 15th-18th in Bangor, and will feature Radiolab’s Robert Krulwich as the headliner. (Purchase tickets for that here.) The MSF brings together Maine’s premier, nationally renowned…

Last year, Biobased Maine successfully launched its effort to market Maine’s assets to the biobased industry by exhibiting at conferences around the globe. We traveled to Washington, D.C., Amsterdam, and Montreal with our new exhibit, which highlights the wood, workforce, and idle mills available for investing in new biobased manufacturing projects. We began conversations with…

Please welcome the newest member of Biobased Maine, Wagner Forest Management. Wagner was founded by Fred Wagner in the late 1950s, before the concept of environmental responsibility had widely entered the public discourse. The company began creating partnerships by which individuals and organizations could invest in timberland assets, understanding from the start the symbiotic relationship…

ReEnergy just announced that it has received numerous proposals from promising companies wishing to co-locate at one or more of ReEnergy’s four biomass-to-electricity facilities in Maine in response to the company’s request for proposals announced in October. On October 18, National BioEnergy Day, ReEnergy CEO Larry D. Richardson announced at the company’s Fort Fairfield facility…