A new $300 million facility in Eddyville has begun producing a corn-based chemical that will be used to make consumer goods. Jon Veldhouse is the CEO of Qore, a joint venture of Minnesota-based ...

CHICAGO, June 8 (Reuters) - Cargill Inc said on Tuesday it will build a plant in Iowa to turn sugars from corn into replacements for chemicals that can be used to make spandex and biodegradable ...

Daesang said on the 5th that it signed a contract with materials science solutions corporations Dongsung Chemical for joint research and development of "starch-based compostable materials and products ...

Those purple corn chips you see in the store aren't just a gimmick – the corn's purple pigment actually has health benefits. Researchers have now devised a method of extracting more of it from the ...

A letter from George R. Lester cites "well-reviewed studies" by David Pimentel and by Ted Patzak that show a negative energy balance in the corn-to-ethanol process (C&EN, Oct. 23, 2006, page 4).