Locus working with Veolia
Locus Performance Ingredients (PI) and Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions have announced a collaboration that will be focused on “developing new biobased solutions tailored to address process, water and wastewater sustainability and performance challenges”. No further details were disclosed.
This will combine Veolia’s expertise in water treatment technology with Locus PI’s in fermentation and large-scale biosurfactant production. The products of it will begin with Locus PI’s recently launched line of sophorolipids, which are produced from renewable agricultural materials in a carbon-neutral process and are USDA-certified as containing 100% biobased content.
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