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November 20th 2025 Dei Biopharma opens a $50 million cassava plant in Namasagali, Kamuli (Uganda). Uganda’s quest for pharmaceutical self-reliance is set to take a decisive step this month when Dei Biopharma commissions a cassava starch manufacturing plant in Namasagali … Continue reading →

November 18th 2025 Sweden and Denmark advance CRISPR-edited starch potato trials. Project Oppotunity, a collaboration of 12 European organisations in the starch potato chain, has completed its first field trials with CRISPR-Cas-edited starch potatoes developed for late blight resistance. The … Continue reading →

October 23rd 2025 Trade Kings Group commissions Zambia’s first glucose and starch plant. Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema on October 21 inaugurated the country’s first industrial glucose and starch production plant in the Lusaka South Multi-Facility Economic Zone (MFEZ). The $110 … Continue reading →

October 19th 2025 Engineers built a new kind of concrete 2x stronger than the real thing. The secret ingredient? Potato starch. Engineers from the University of Manchester say their concrete is twice as strong as conventional concrete. The engineers believe … Continue reading →

October 13th 2025 Across the Middle East and Africa, the corn starch market was valued at approximately $1.3 billion in 2024. Al Ghurair Foods, a division of the Al Ghurair Group — one of the UAE’s most diversified and pioneering … Continue reading →

October 01st 2025 8th Annual EUstarch value chain and fermentation October 13-14 Berlin (Germany). Agenda: Day 112:30Registration & Networking Lunch13:25Chairman’s Welcoming RemarksSimon Bentley, Managing DirectorCommoditia Ltd13:30Strengthening starch’s central role in the EU bioeconomy: Policy pathways for resilience, competitiveness, and market … Continue reading →

August 26th 2025 Kazakhstan to launch starch and dextrine plant. A corn deep processing plant with a capacity of 150,000 tons a year will be launched in Turkistan region in 2025, Kazinform News Agency cites the Kazakh Agriculture Ministry. The … Continue reading →

August 20th 2025 Carbon to candy? China tech could convert CO₂ into food by turning methanol into sugar. Chinese researchers have developed a groundbreaking method to convert methanol into white sugar—commonly known as sucrose—without using farmland or crops. This method … Continue reading →

August 12th 2025 China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) initiated anti-dumping investigation on pea starch imported from Canada from Tuesday, based on applications from six domestic companies representing the pea starch industry, the ministry said in an announcement released on Tuesday. … Continue reading →

August 06th 2025 Ingredion hosts groundbreaking ceremony for $50 million Cedar Rapids expansion. Project will increase plant’s corn processing capacity by up to 50%. Ingredion leaders and government officials took an opportunity Wednesday, at a groundbreaking ceremony in Cedar Rapids, … Continue reading →