The Washington-based Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) announced that Dr. Pramod Chaudhari, founder and Executive Chairman of Praj Industries, has been selected for the 2020 George Washington Carver Award for Innovation in Industrial Biotechnology and Agriculture.

Henkel North America has joined the U.S. Plastics Pact, a collaborative initiative intended to drive systems change to create a path toward a circular economy for plastics in the United States by 2025.

Graphite Innovation and Technologies has been awarded a contract valued at $2,400,000 by Transport Canada to investigate a new technology to help reduce the underwater noise and greenhouse gas emissions produced by marine vessels.

Scops Coating Technologies, a manufacturer of omniphobic coatings and additives, announced an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help fund its research and market its environmentally friendly product.

Siegwerk has become a strategic partner of Project STOP, an initiative that designs, implements and scales circular-economy solutions to marine plastic pollution in Southeast Asia.

The Munich-based WACKER Group is supporting a project by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to build an innovation platform for sustainable construction.

Dow is teaming up with PPG to reduce the carbon impact of anti-corrosion coatings for steel commercial infrastructure.

PPG announced a collaboration with Dow and its Sustainable Future Program, developed to accelerate adoption of low-carbon technologies.

According to a specialist in sustainable solutions in the cleaning industry, the past decade is when sustainability came of age.

A consortium comprising Nouryon, Gasunie and four other partners will receive an €11-million European grant towards a proposed green hydrogen project in Delfzijl, the Netherlands.