Cadillac just announced a collaboration with biotech company MycoWorks to develop a new class of bio-based material for high-performance automotive interiors. General Motors’ luxury brand has begun ...

Image caption: Cage design used for the seafloor experiment that took place off the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2019. Plastic pollution is seemingly ...

To wood or not to wood, that's been the question! Ever since oil-based plastics burst onto the manufacturing scene, cost, sustainability, and performance have defined the ongoing woods vs. plastics ...

Bio-based building materials used to be mainstream. The roof of the Pentagon (which was built in the early 1940s) is insulated with horsehair. Until the mid-20th century, the great majority of ...

Efficiency and sustainability can be combined thanks to a new class of materials hitting the auto market. Credit: Chinnapong/Shutterstock As the automotive industry evolves, so too must innovation in ...

Scientists have made a revolutionary breakthrough in bio-based materials. According to a study published in the journal Sustainability, the researchers were able to create a new pineapple leather that ...

Companies to explore converting an Indorama Ventures’ U.S. facility into bio-based materials plant to develop and commercialize low-carbon bio-based materials WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif., & ...

The building industry extracts, consumes, and ultimately discards more than 3 billion tons of raw material each year. Conventional building materials are globally sourced, carbon-intensive, often ...

What insulation materials are needed to meet the challenges facing the modern built environment, including how to create a more sustainable future? What if some of them are already available? Kingspan ...

Sporting goods manufacturer Salomon is aiming for more sustainability in its products, and recently evaluated the materials used in its composites-intensive snowboards. Its recent all-terrain Highpath ...