Biovation Biovation is a high-tech manufacturing company providing non-woven fiber products with antimicrobial properties for food packaging, woundcare, and custom OEM applications. Biovation has extensive experience with bioplastic polymers such as polylactic acid, which comes from cornstarch and is completely biodegradable. Biovation’s infection control chemistries also are available for coating on fibers, for textiles, or…
Read MoreJob Announcement [Posted July 2014] Program Director, Sustainable Economy, Plants to Products (full-time) Environmental Health Strategy Center – Portland, Maine, US Lead our Sustainable Economy program team and help staff a trade association to promote biobased manufacturing as a sustainable economic development strategy. Our Plants to Products initiative aims to leverage regional assets and attract…
Read MoreAnnual Plants to Products Forum: Growing Biobased Manufacturing Jobs in Rural Maine October 17, 2013 Forest Bioproducts Research Institute, Old Town, Maine On October 17th, 2013, 75 business leaders and researchers gathered to talk about growing biobased manufacturing jobs in rural Maine as a sustainable economic development strategy that can leverage sustainable use of our natural…
Read MoreThursday, October 17, 2013 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM Technology and Research Center, 880 Main St, Old Town, Maine. This year’s Forum, offered in collaboration with E2Tech, will highlight an innovative process and technology at Old Town Fuel and Fiber company, a former paper mill now being used for high-tech manufacture of cellulosic sugars, nature’s…
Read MoreFrom Plants to Products Seizing Maine’s Market Share in the Bio-Based Economy On April 11, 2012, sixty business leaders, researchers, entrepreneurs, economic development professionals, sustainable business advocates, and investors gathered at the Biovation LLC manufacturing facility in Boothbay to learn about market opportunities for Maine businesses in bio-based plastics. Special thanks are due to the…
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