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Researchers Pitch Innovative Uses for Bourbon Distilling Byproduct
The recent “bourbon boom” has been great for Kentucky’s economy, where 95 percent of the world’s bourbon is made, but it has also come with a unique environmental challenge: What to do with the spent grain, or stillage, that is a byproduct of bourbon production? For...
Louisville Company Bests Out-of-State Competitors in Bourbon-Related Pitch Contest
What if drinking bourbon helped make a key ingredient needed to manufacture electric car batteries at Ford Motor Co.and SK Innovation's new plants? That's an idea BioProducts LLC aims to make a reality through its integrated solution to stillage, a byproduct...
Here are the 22 Startups You Should be Watching in 2022
Louisville Business First is announcing the winners of KY Inno's inaugural Startups to Watch feature and event. Below is a list of the honorees. They will be recognized at an event Tuesday, Feb. 1, and will be featured in the Louisville Business First print edition on...
Innovators Pitch Ideas for Handling Kentucky Bourbon Industry’s Surplus Stillage
Louisville team takes top prize with plan to convert spent grains into sweetener, activated carbon and animal feed.
Large Louisville Engineering Firm Buys into Agtech Startup
C&I Engineering, one of Louisville’s largest engineering firms, has bought an equity share in BioProducts LLC. The goal of the investment is to grow each business as well as capitalize on new products being developed for the state’s agricultural sector.
UofL Sugar Substitute, Bio-coal Technology Licensed to Louisville Startup
A technology born from University of Louisville research uses spent distillers’ grains, corn and waste wood to create a low-calorie sugar substitute. And it gets sweeter: the process also results in a bio-mass “coal” alternative that burns up to 20 times cleaner than...
KY Hemp/CBD Symposium Informs Public on Many Uses
Kentucky Natural Healing hosted the first annual ‘Kentucky Hemp/CBD Symposium & Expo’ on November 17 at the Holiday Inn Louisville Airport Fair & Expo Center. Several guest speakers appeared at the conference to talk the benefits of CBD and hemp products,...
Experts Say Opportunities Lie Ahead for Hemp In Kentucky
Industrial hemp advocates say they’re prepared for a new wave of prosperity for the crop in Kentucky following its legalization under the 2018 federal Farm Bill. Speaking on WFPL’s In Conversation, experts said they are still spreading awareness about the many uses of...
Biocoal Reducing Carbon Emissions Gains Momentum
It seems that there is a new source of renewable energy on the block, and it is called “biocoal.” This coal is derived from wood waste and plants. Its use could diminish the greenhouse gas released by power plants and even the energy sector’s reliance on fossil-based...
Clean “Biocoal” From Hibiscus Cannabinus & Hemp Helps Reduce GHG Emissions
The University of Louisville has been a state-approved grower of hemp since 2016 as one of the Kentucky Department of Agriculture’s pilot program. The Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research hopes to accelerate commercialization of a biocoal made from wood and...