Manufacturing Today Issue - 253 October 2026 | Page 156

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▶ Upscaling and Downscaling Purification for a Novel Bioplastic Process

Empowering domestic supply chains

Discover how BioMADE is closing the gap between laboratory breakthroughs and commercial biomanufacturing

Funded through the Department of Defense, BioMADE is a public-private biomanufacturing partnership with more than 300 members, including universities, colleges, startups, and global businesses. Since our last conversation a year ago, three major developments have been unfolding at BioMADE. Jill Zullo, EVP and COO, takes us through each of them.

“ On the technology and innovation front, we announced just over $ 21 million invested across 14 projects in April of this year. Seven focused on technical innovation, several on education and workforce development, and a few on safety and security, spanning the full breadth of what we do. Midway through this summer, we also published interesting research we commissioned on consumer attitudes towards bio-based
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