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2025
- 3/12/2024 – International collaboration highlighted at AgTech Summit
- 3/4/2025 – Champaign-Urbana AgTech Week Returns for Sixth Year
2024
- 08/14/2024 – iFAB Tech Hub grows net-zero industrial chemical partnerships, champions bioeconomy
- 08/09/2024 – Precision fermentation bubbles up in Illinois
- 07/02/2024 – iFAB awarded $51M EDA Tech Hubs grant to propel Central Illinois as a biomanufacturing leader
- 07/02/2024 – Biden administration Provides $504M to support 12 Tech Hubs Nationwide
- 03/04/2024 – iFAB partners commit $680 million, seek EDA funding for Central Illinois biomanufacturing hub
- 1/09/2024 – Serra Ventures and Grondex International Partner Up for next Ag & Food Tech Fund
2023
- 12/19/2023 – Synonym joins consortium of Illinois Fermentation and Agriculture Biomanufacturing Hub (iFAB) as Tech Hub designee
- 12/07/2023 – iFAB Tech Hub partners IBRL and BBP scale fermentation tech, jobs in Central Illinois
- 12/05/2023 – Transforming grain to gold: How area-led industry can strengthen America’s economy, national security
- 10/24/2023 – Central Illinois named US Tech Hub for biomanufacturing by Biden-Harris administration
- 10/24/2023 – Two Illinois Programs Selected as U.S. EDA Tech Hubs
- 9/14/2023 – Upside Foods Opens Commercial-Scale Cultivated Meat Plant Near Chicago, Starts with Ground Chicken
- 9/6/2023 – Pritzker, Incobrasa Industries Break Ground on $250M Manufacturing Facility Expansion
- 9/5/2023 – Is Illinois the Key to making the US the World’s Biomanufacturing Capitol?
- 8/29/2023 – Illinois Universities Seek EDA Funding for Cutting-Edge Tech
- 8/23/2023 – Innovate Illinois Supports IBRL project for federal EDA Tech Hub Funding
- 8/16/2023 – Innovate Illinois Supports Two projects for Federal EDA Tech Hub Funding
- 8/9/2023 – Opinion: The time is now for American agriculture to lead in the modern global bioeconomy
- 5/2/2023 – gener8tor Partners with Serra Ventures to Launch Accelerator for Ag and Food Startups
- 4/17/2023 – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Shaping impactful agricultural graduates
- 3/9/2023 – UI Research Park AgTech Summit Attracts Global Audience, Speakers
- 3/7/2023 – Parkland College announces new facility, program for ag training
- 3/6/2023 – ADM, Richland Community College team up to offer training program for new process technicians
- 2/1/2023 – IBRL bioprocessing degree fills critical need for biomanufacturing industry
2022
- 10/31/2022 – IBRL hosts workshop on revitalization of corn processing facilities
- 9/23/2022 – ADM Makes Transformative Investment in Innovation at University of Illinois Research Park
- 8/15/2022 – LG Chem and ADM Launch Joint Ventures, Announce Intended Location for U.S. Production of Lactic Acid and Polylactic Acid Production
- 6/2/2022 – IBRL’s Hands-On Fermentation Short Course Offered to Industry
- 5/6/2022 – The Department of Agricultural & Biological Engineering’s Integrated Bioprocessing Research Laboratory grows to meet the increasing demand from the bioprocessing industry
- 4/12/2022 – ADM to Meet Fast-Growing Demand For Alternative Proteins with Significant Capacity Expansion, New Innovation Center
- 2/2/2022 – ADM, InnovaFeed sign deal to make pet food from farmed insects
- 12/9/2021 – DOE Renews CABBI Five More Years
2021
- 3/17/2021 – Serra Ventures (Champaign, IL) Announces World Class Advisory Team for New Ag Tech Fund