The facility will develop technologies that convert the country’s grasslands into a range of products, including high-quality ...

Munster Technological University (MTU) has launched a new pilot green biorefinery at its Kerry Campus, marking an important ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Red River Biorefinery in Grand Forks is in the process of being sold, said Todd Feland, Grand Forks city administrator. The plant has been closed for nearly two years, almost the ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Red River Biorefinery in Grand Forks, which shuttered nine months ago, remains closed as it continues to do maintenance and cleaning, said Todd Feland, Grand Forks City ...

Green Plains, a biorefining company focused on the development and utilization of fermentation, agricultural, and biological technologies in the processing of annually renewable crops into sustainable ...

The owners of Red River Biorefinery — the Grand Forks ethanol and alcohol plant near Gateway Drive — are locked in a legal fight with a contractor. The case begins with a contract between North ...

What does it mean if our economy works without fossil raw materials such as oil and gas? The logical answer is that we will have to create value almost exclusively with biological, renewable resources ...

Researchers have developed a sustainable, inexpensive two-step process that can upcycle organic carbon waste -- including lignin, a difficult-to-breakdown material that gives plants their structure.

GRAND FORKS — North Dakota environmental regulators gave a major Grand Forks agribusiness a nearly $40,000 fine late last year for multiple violations, state records show — with another $200,000 in ...

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When nature designed lignin — the fibrous, woody material that gives plants their rigid structure — it didn’t cut any corners. Incredibly slow to break down, lignin is so sturdy and long lasting that ...