Sustainable materials – strong corporate ambitions driving innovation
Numerous industrial groups are setting ambitious goals to reduce their environmental footprint. Most often, this involves reducing their GHG emissions, but some go further by aiming for 100% sustainable production.
How to choose the ethanol yeast?
Yeast is a key element in industrial ethanol production and each cell works like a production unit. From fermentable materials, yeast produces the major product ethanol and several co-products, such as CO2 and glycerol. As in the case of the production unit, the choice of yeast is an important technological decision that will have a […]
Success story – 10 years of collaboration with the Catalysts Group in India
India is the third largest petroleum consumer in the world. Growing population and rapid socio-economic development has spurred an increase in car transportation and gasoline consumption. Given limited domestic energy resources, most energy requirements are met through imports. That’s why since 2003, the Government of India mandated the use of 5% ethanol blend in petrol […]
What is Yeast?
Yeast is a key element in the production of industrial ethanol, but do you know the specificities of this microorganism? Yeast is a unicellular fungus Yeast belongs to the family of the fungi. It consists of a large and diverse group of eukaryotic organisms, i.e. they possess organelles that divide the cell space into specialized […]
High school students in rural area discover the beet ethanol industry
As part of a partnership project with a high school in the north of France, Leaf participated in introducing teenagers to industrial beet processing into various products. The students in the school’s science classes were involved in a “Science Festival” project, the theme of which this year was “Man and Nature”. With a focus on […]
Sibabrata Mukherjee joins Leaf as Technical Service Representative India
It gives us immense pleasure to welcome on board Dr Sibabrata Mukherjee, who has joined Lesaffre on March 2020 at Bangalore as Technical Service Representative India for Leaf Business Unit and shall be catering in industrial ethanol distilleries across India. In his role, Sibabrata will lead the technical services in India which includes visit customers […]
Information – Covid-19
Marcq-en-Baroeul, France – March 19, 2020 Dear clients, partners and friends, There is nothing more important to us than the health and safety of all. We share your concerns about the spread of Covid-19 around the world. Based in 51 countries, our global presence allows us to be as close as possible to the evolution […]
The BioImpulse project gives new impetus to biotechnology in materials
The BioImpulse project, first presented in Brussels on 2 October 2019 at the EFIB (European Forum For Industrial Biotechnology and the Bioeconomy), aims to create a new adhesive resin without any of the so-called Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC).
Lesaffre inaugurate a new drying facility in Alabama and celebrate the launch of Leaf’s new bioengineered yeast for ethanol production
On Tuesday, January 10, Antoine BAULE, CEO of Lesaffre, Thomas Benner, President and CEO at Lesaffre Yeast Corporation LLC and Red Star Yeast, and Didier Masy, General Manager of Leaf – Lesaffre Advanced Fermentations, inaugurate the new Lesaffre Yeast Corporation drying facility in Headland, Alabama and celebrate the launch of Leaf’s new bioengineered yeast for […]
Leaf and Dutch DNA enter in R&D collaboration for itaconic acid production
Leaf and Dutch DNA, a spin-out of TNO, are glad to announce they have entered into a R&D collaboration for the development of a new fungal host for the production of itaconic acid. The ambition of the partnership is to reduce the production cost of itaconic acid and enable its broader use as a renewable […]
