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altM Commissions Integrated Biorefinery Pilot Facility in Bengaluru
With its new Bengaluru pilot facility, altM is moving from lab-scale innovation to real-world manufacturing, aiming to prove that bio-based materials can deliver both performance and cost competitiveness at scale across key industrial applications.
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altM and NRL sign MoU to explore lignin use from bio-ethanol production
As bio-refineries scale across India, new partnerships like altM’s with Numaligarh Refinery are beginning to focus on extracting greater value from by-products such as lignin, signaling a shift toward more integrated use of biomass.
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This startup is turning north India’s crop waste into climate-smart materials
For most, stubble burning is an annual environmental crisis, but for altM’s founders, it became the starting point to rethink how agricultural waste could power the next generation of industrial materials.
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The future of suncare is green
Another article in this issue focusses on the success achieved by a start-up in developing a novel sunscreen from a high-quality lignin fraction derived from sugarcane bagasse. The company claims the product is versatile across sun care, skin care, and colour cosmetics, by delivering high-performance, reef-safe UV protection.
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The beauty in the burn: How altM wants to transform crop residue into sustainable cosmetics
Each winter, North India’s skies turn grey with the smoke of burning crop residue—a persistent environmental crisis. For altM founders, Apoorv Garg and Yugal Raj Jain, it also revealed an opportunity.
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Can altM engineer a Cleantech Revolution In the industrial value chain?
The founders identified India's underutilised agri-residue and the global demand for greener alternatives as a massive opportunity to build cost-competitive, carbon-negative molecules for industries like beauty, textiles, and adhesives
