Capitol Notebook: Bioindustrial Manufacturer to Build $40M Plant in Iowa

Capitol Notebook: Bioindustrial manufacturer to build $40M plant in Iowa

The Iowa site will be the third facility in BioMADE’s network. The others are in Minnesota and California.

Iowa selected for $40 million BioMADE biomanufacturing facility

BioMADE, a Department of Defense Manufacturing Innovation Institute, has selected Iowa to establish a bioindustrial manufacturing scale-up facility at Iowa State University’s (ISU) BioCentury Research Farm in Boone. The 15,000-square-foot facility will include 5,000-liter and 10,000-liter fermenters and downstream processing equipment, enabling companies to scale up fermentation-based technologies using Iowa’s agricultural feedstocks, with an op…