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November 06th 2021 Chinese company picks Grand Forks North Dakota for manufacturing plant. The Chinese company Fufeng has chosen Grand Forks (ND) as the site of a manufacturing facility that city officials said Saturday could be the largest private sector … Continue reading →

September 23rd 2021 Cell-free chemoenzymatic starch synthesis from carbon dioxide. Chinese scientists recently reported a de novo route for artificial starch synthesis from carbon dioxide (CO2) for the first time. Relevant results are published in Science on Sept. 24. The … Continue reading →

September 17th 2021 Agrana announces €25m investment in Austrian plant capacity. Austrian food company Agrana has announced a €25 million investment in additional capacity at its three starch factories. The Agrana plant in Gmünd began receiving deliveries of starch potatoes … Continue reading →

September 15th 2021 France’s Tereos to sell Chinese starch business to Wilmar’s YKA. French sugar group Tereos is selling its minority stake in two Chinese starch joint ventures to Yihai Kerry Arawana Holdings (YKA), the Chinese subsidiary of Singapore’s Wilmar … Continue reading →

August 31st 2021 Increasing sugar availability for oil synthesis. A team from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) has bred a plant that produces more oil by manipulating the availability of sugar for oil synthesis. The team, … Continue reading →

August 24th 2021 First CRISPR-edited wheat grown in Europe to be planted this autumn. UK research institute Rothamsted Research, a pioneer of GM crop trials since the 1990s, has been granted permission by Defra to run a series of field … Continue reading →

September 28th 2021 A Low-Cost Instrument for Estimating the Starch Content of Cassava Roots Based on the Measurement of RF Return Loss. Abstract. The problem of simply and reliably estimating starch content of cassava roots in the field is addressed … Continue reading →

July 20th 2021 Gurgaon-based agency begins making biopolymer from corn starch. Gurgaon-based Hello-Tech Worldwide, a expertise sourcing supplier within the discipline of plastics and packaging, has come out with a plant-based bio-compostable polymer. The biopolymer, made out of corn starch, … Continue reading →

July 12th 2021 Tate & Lyle spins off industrial sweeteners, starches division to focus on specialty food and beverage solutions. Tate & Lyle has struck a $1.3bn deal to sell a controlling stake in its ‘Primary Products’ industrial sweeteners and … Continue reading →

July 07th 2021 Hydroxyethyl starch products shouldn’t be used for low blood volume unless no other options exist. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it is requiring new safety warnings for hydroxyethyl starch (HES) products in light of … Continue reading →