fermentation

Farmented Foods takes 'ugly' or imperfect vegetables that farmers cannot sell based on appearance and turns them into fermented products. Their ferments are described as packed full of probiotics to fuel the digestive system.

small-batch production

Great Frogs Winery is located on Harness Creek Vineyards (est. 1999) in Annapolis, Maryland. It produces award-winning artisan wines from estate-grown French vinifera grapes. The owners are hands-on in every step of growing and making wine, pruning, training, hedging, and harvesting each plant by hand, with night harvesting to ferment at low temperatures.

estate grape growinghand pruning, training, hedging, and harvestingnight harvestingwinemaking

Guardian Energy is a multi-plant ethanol production group that began in 2009 with farmer-owned ethanol cooperatives. It operates four locations in the Midwest, including Lima, Ohio, and produces ethanol, animal feed (DDGS), and corn oil from locally grown corn using a dry corn milling process.

centrifugationdistillationdry corn millinghammermillingliquefaction

Hydrosome Labs is a biotechnology company based in Chicago (Westmont, IL) that has developed a patented process creating stable ultrafine bubbles in water, called Hydrosomes, which remain intact in solution for more than a year. The technology, Hydrosome H2O, enhances water's capabilities naturally without chemicals and improves delivery of nutrients, vitamins, gases and water to cells and tissues. The company licenses its technology and seeks partners to commercialize it.

hydration enhancementnanotechnologyultrafine bubble technology

InnoTech Alberta is Alberta's leading research and technology organization, providing applied research, development and innovation services to industry, business and the public sector. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Alberta Innovates established by the Government of Alberta, it has operated since 1921 and delivers services through four divisions: Environment, Energy, Bio-Industrial, and Measurement and Data.

applied researchcarbon capture testingcarbon characterizationcarbon fibre processingchemical testingcustom measurement equipmentenvironmental monitoringhydrogen fuel certificationpilot plant productiontechnology demonstration and scale-up

Juan Lobo Tequila is a 100% blue agave tequila brand handcrafted in the Highlands of Jalisco, Mexico, from five generations of agave farmers. The tequila is slow-cooked in brick ovens, fermented to classical music, and distilled in copper pot stills at the Vivanco family distillery (NOM 1414) in Arandas. The brand was founded by country singer Jon Wolfe, whose fans gave him the nickname Juan Lobo.

aging in barrelsdistillation in copper pot stillsslow-cooking in brick ovens

KanPro Research is a contract research organization (CRO) headquartered in the Bioscience & Technology Business Center at the University of Kansas, based on the operations of the KU COBRE Protein Production Group. The company specializes in recombinant protein expression and purification from bacterial, yeast, insect, mammalian cells, and cell-free systems, and partners with academic and industrial researchers to produce challenging proteins. Protein production is supplemented by manufacturing and testing biochemical reagents, kits, and equipment, and pr

cell culturecell-free expressionclonal selectioncloningPCRprimer designprotein labelingprotein purificationrecombinant protein expressionrefoldingstable transfectionsubcloningSurface Plasmon Resonance screeningtraining