▲ BioMADE’ s Iowa Facility Groundbreaking, November 2025: Iowa Governor Reynolds, Iowa State University, and BioMADE Break Ground on New $ 40M Biomanufacturing Facility
products. We found that over 56 percent of Americans are interested in having more bio-based products in their lives, six in ten believe the US Government should invest in biomanufacturing to help these companies succeed, and 59 percent think the US should work hard to retain its leadership in this space. To see that level of agreement in today’ s political climate, where consensus on almost anything feels rare, is truly encouraging. Beyond that, work on our Pilot Plant Network( PPN) has progressed significantly. We previously announced that three facilities had started engineering and design work, and now we are breaking ground and building out each of those sites,” she begins.
The centerpiece of that infrastructure investment is BioMADE’ s new flagship facility in Minnesota, which has been a core priority over the past several years. Global inflation and rising steel costs required careful value engineering and additional time, but the result is a facility worth waiting
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