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Comet Bio wins best ingredient innovation at World Food Innovation Awards

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Canadian Biomass Magazine March 21, 2019 Link to story Comet Bio, a manufacturer of healthy and sustainable ingredients, has been named the winner of this year’s World Food Innovation Awards for Best Ingredient Innovation. The award recognizes the company’s Arabinoxylan prebiotic dietary fiber extract, and Sweeterra™ syrup blends which are functionally equivalent alternatives to corn syrup but with up to 35% less calories, lower sugar, and higher dietary fiber. “We are honored to be named… 
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Comet Bio Wins Best Ingredient Innovation at World Food Innovation Awards

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Western Food Processor Magazine March 20, 2019 Link to story Comet Bio, a manufacturer of healthy and sustainable ingredients, has been named the winner of this year’s World Food Innovation Awards for Best Ingredient Innovation. The award recognizes the company’s Arabinoxylan prebiotic dietary fiber extract, and Sweeterra™ syrup blends which are functionally equivalent alternatives to corn syrup but with up to 35% less calories, lower sugar, and higher dietary fiber. “We are honored to be… 
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Comet Bio Wins Best Ingredient Innovation at World Food Innovation Awards

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Comet Bio, a manufacturer of healthy and sustainable ingredients, has been named the winner of this year’s World Food Innovation Awards for Best Ingredient Innovation. The award recognizes the company’s Arabinoxylan prebiotic dietary fiber extract, and Sweeterra™ syrup blends which are functionally equivalent alternatives to corn syrup but with up to 35% less calories, lower sugar, and higher dietary fiber. “We are honored to be named a winner at this year’s World Food Innovation Awards… 
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Comet Bio Ingredients Named Finalists for World Food Innovation Awards

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Company’s Sustainable and Healthy Dietary Fiber and Sweeteners Named Ingredient Innovation Finalist Ontario, Canada – March 4, 2019 – Comet Bio, a manufacturer of healthy and sustainable ingredients, today announced it has been named a finalist for the World Food Innovation Awards. They are finalists in the ‘Best Ingredients Innovation’ category for their Arabinoxylan prebiotic dietary fiber extract, and Sweeterra™ syrup blends that are functionally equivalent alternatives to corn syrup but with up to 35%… 
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Sarnia’s Comet Bio adds experience to its board

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Inder Mathur, a veteran agribusiness and food industry executive, has joined the board at Comet Bio, a company planning to build a manufacturing site in Sarnia. The London Free Press November 14, 2018 Link to story Comet Bio, which recently shortened its name from Comet Biorefining, said in a news release that Mathur has more than 30 years experience in the ingredient manufacturing, agribusiness and the food and beverage industries. He was previously CEO of… 
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Comet Bio Appoints New Board Member

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Former Western Sugar Cooperative CEO joins Comet Bio Comet Bio announced today that it has appointed longtime agribusiness and food industry executive Inder Mathur as the company’s newest board member. Mathur brings over 30 years of experience in ingredient manufacturing, agribusiness, and the food and beverage industry. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer of the Denver-based Western Sugar Cooperative, a sugar beet refining and marketing company. “The addition of Inder to our Board of… 
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Farm waste, sweet taste: Comet Biorefining transforms harvest leftovers into sweeteners and fibre

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Food Navigator October 30, 2018 By Niamh Michaeil Link to story Comet Biorefining transforms farm leftovers, such as whet straw, into functional ingredients such as sweeteners and fibres with lower carbon footprint. Agricultural residues or biomass are what is left in a farmer’s field after the primary crop has been harvested, and it often goes to waste. However, Canadian company Comet Biorefining says it has developed a way to cost-effectively transform this biomass into value-added ingredients… 
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Partnering with local farmers to convert agricultural residues into sustainable ingredients

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PARTNERING WITH LOCAL FARMERS TO CONVERT AGRICULTURAL RESIDUES INTO SUSTAINABLE INGREDIENTS Written by Comet Biorefining April 25, 2018 At Comet we have developed a technology that converts farmers’ agricultural residues into high-quality, sustainable ingredients. Agricultural residues, often referred to as biomass, are materials left in a farmer’s field after the primary crop has been harvested. Examples include corn stover, and wheat straw. By partnering with local farmers through the Cellulosic Sugar Producers Cooperative (CSPC), we… 
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Transforming corn stover into sugar

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Better Farming Link to story By Jim Algie London, Ont.-based Comet Biorefining Inc. plans a sugar-from-corn-stover plant in Sarnia’s Industrial Park at Transalta by 2018, CEO Andrew Richard announced recently. It’s among three current projects in the Sarnia area to convert field crops and residues into bio-based products with a variety of industrial uses to replace petroleum-derived chemicals. All involve potential new markets for agricultural crops and active support from the government-funded Sarnia-based agency, Bioindustrial… 
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