Bion

Bion Announces Voluntary Share Surrender

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Growth, Exercise, Livestock, Bassani, QB, OTC, Retirement, Bion, BNET, Security (finance)

If funding milestones are met, after the return of shares, Bion will have approximately 90M total shares (fully diluted).

Key Points: 
  • If funding milestones are met, after the return of shares, Bion will have approximately 90M total shares (fully diluted).
  • Details of the surrender, including which instruments will be returned and canceled, will be determined over the next several weeks.
  • Linda Bassani, Mr. Bassani’s widow, said, “Dom was committed to Bion and his vision of a sustainable livestock industry.
  • To build projects, Bion needs to bring on successor management, an operations team, and strategic partners.

Food Service Executive Steve Sands Joins Bion’s Advisory Group

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Monday, December 4, 2023
Marketing, Bion, Livestock, Meat, QB, Farmer, Performance Food Group, Protein, University, BNET, OTC, Poultry

Steve most recently served as President of Protein Brands for Performance Foodservice, one of the largest food service distributors in the U.S.

Key Points: 
  • Steve most recently served as President of Protein Brands for Performance Foodservice, one of the largest food service distributors in the U.S.
  • He is a highly regarded foodservice industry veteran with over 40 years of experience in all phases of the meat business.
  • Steve joined Performance Food Group in 2009 as Vice President for Protein and brings to Bion a NYSE-traded public company perspective.
  • His experience is top-shelf and the food service industry he knows so well represents a particularly attractive market for premium branded beef.

Bion Announces Strategic Alliance with Transparency Wise

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Friday, November 17, 2023
Data, Carbon, Genetics, Artificial intelligence, Blockchain, Letter, Animal, Bion, Machine learning, Health, Breeding, Methane, Food safety, Partnership, Water, Ammonia, Consumer, Beef, QB, Carbon accounting, GHG, Soil, OTC, Livestock, BNET, Agriculture

TW will provide Bion and their producer partners with TW’s AgWise.io agricultural data management platform to measure, monitor, report, and quantify livestock production data.

Key Points: 
  • TW will provide Bion and their producer partners with TW’s AgWise.io agricultural data management platform to measure, monitor, report, and quantify livestock production data.
  • Relevant data will be shared with appropriate supply chain stakeholders and, ultimately, with the consumer via the Transparency Wise consumer app.
  • Sarah Martello, CEO of Transparency Wise, said, “We are excited to partner with Bion and help define and market the country’s first truly sustainable beef.
  • We’re looking forward to working with Transparency Wise to provide that complete lifecycle transparency, from ‘dirt to dinner plate’, and build a platform that will allow each of our supply chain partners to connect into the circular ecosystem our strategic partner model creates.”

Bion’s former CEO and Technology Co-inventor Passes

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Monday, November 13, 2023
Water quality, Strategic planning, Bion, Bassani, Atmosphere, R, QB, AND, OTC, Hospital, Livestock, BNET, Management

Mr. Bassani’s association with Bion began as a consultant in 2000, with a focus on strategic planning and special projects.

Key Points: 
  • Mr. Bassani’s association with Bion began as a consultant in 2000, with a focus on strategic planning and special projects.
  • In 2006, he assumed the role of CEO.
  • Mr. Bassani stepped down as Bion’s CEO in 2022, when Bion began the transition from R&D to commercialization of its technology.
  • To the Bassani family: you have our deepest condolences, and we look forward to completing his mission.”

Bion's Ammonia Recovery Technology’s Initial Startup Successful - Maintains Controlled Steady-State

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Nitrate, ARS, Digestion, Bion, Livestock, Carbon, QB, Plant, Ammonia, BNET, OTC, Manure, Methane, Nitrogen, Fertilizer, EU

Bion has begun optimizing the system’s operating parameters so that it will meet or exceed Bion’s economic models for large-scale commercial projects.

Key Points: 
  • Bion has begun optimizing the system’s operating parameters so that it will meet or exceed Bion’s economic models for large-scale commercial projects.
  • The patented Ammonia Recovery System (ARS) is the core of Bion’s Gen3Tech platform.
  • The ARS captures the ammonia, minimizing its environmental impacts and creating low-carbon and organic nitrogen fertilizer products with it.
  • We think the value of Bion’s ability to upcycle and redirect that ammonia to where and when it is needed, cannot be overemphasized.”

Bion's Advanced Waste Treatment Technology Start-Up Yields Positive Early Results

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Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Heart, ARS, Bion, Livestock, Carbon, Bion (satellite), QB, Ammonia, BNET, Particulates, OTC, Groundwater, Manure, Nitrogen, Environment, FAIR, Dairy, Fertilizer

FAIR OAKS, Ind., Aug. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. (OTC QB: BNET), a leader in advanced livestock waste treatment technology and premium sustainable beef, reports it has completed initial system startup at its Fair Oaks demonstration facility and is very encouraged by early operational results.

Key Points: 
  • FAIR OAKS, Ind., Aug. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. (OTC QB: BNET), a leader in advanced livestock waste treatment technology and premium sustainable beef, reports it has completed initial system startup at its Fair Oaks demonstration facility and is very encouraged by early operational results.
  • Bion has already been able to operate the system at 'steady state' for (planned) short run-times, producing purified, concentrated ammonium bicarbonate base liquid distillate from manure digestate.
  • Bion anticipates it will operate the integrated Ammonia Recovery System (ARS) for the next 3-4 weeks during the current operational phase – processing manure digestate.
  • Today, up to 80 percent of the nitrogen in manure waste – most of its fertilizer value – is lost via ammonia emissions.

Bion Initiates Start Up of Livestock Waste Treatment Technology Demonstration Project

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Monday, July 24, 2023
Foodservice, ARS, Atmosphere, Digestion, Bion, Livestock, QB, Digestate, Ammonia, BNET, OTC, Manure, Methane, AD, Nitrogen, Environment, Economics, FAIR, Renewable energy, Fertilizer

The system will allow Bion to demonstrate the effectiveness of its core ammonia recovery technology at commercial scale.

Key Points: 
  • The system will allow Bion to demonstrate the effectiveness of its core ammonia recovery technology at commercial scale.
  • The Fair Oaks system will provide the operating data Bion needs to complete final design of the larger systems that will treat the waste from the 15,000-head module(s) that comprise a Bion project.
  • The patented ARS is the core of Bion's third generation (Gen3Tech) livestock waste treatment platform.
  • Most of the nitrogen in livestock manure waste (and its fertilizer value) is in the form of ammonia.

Dakota Valley Growers and Bion Announce First Grant for Sustainable Beef Project

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Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Commission, Fertilizer, Agriculture, Livestock, Attitude, QB, North Dakota Department of Agriculture, APUC, Engineering, BNET, OTC, Weather, DVG, Bion

The Commission awarded Dakota Valley Growers $128,500 to cover 75 percent of initial engineering, design, permitting, and legal work associated with developing the DVG project.

Key Points: 
  • The Commission awarded Dakota Valley Growers $128,500 to cover 75 percent of initial engineering, design, permitting, and legal work associated with developing the DVG project.
  • Engineering teams have now been engaged by DVG and Bion and have begun design work to support conditional use permit applications.
  • Dakota Valley Growers and Bion (as a prime partner) anticipate additional grants, incentives, and resources will become available to support DVG's expansion and transition to production of sustainable beef, fertilizers, and energy.
  • Bill O'Neill, Bion's CEO, said, "We look forward to working with Dakota Valley Growers to develop a sustainable beef production facility in North Dakota.

Bion and Dakota Valley Growers Announce LOI for Sustainable Beef Project

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Monday, April 24, 2023
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NEW YORK, April 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. (OTC QB: BNET), a leader in advanced livestock waste treatment technology and premium sustainable beef, and Dakota Valley Growers, a cattle feeder near Bathgate, North Dakota, announced a letter of intent to develop a 15,000-head sustainable beef cattle feeding operation.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, April 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. (OTC QB: BNET), a leader in advanced livestock waste treatment technology and premium sustainable beef, and Dakota Valley Growers, a cattle feeder near Bathgate, North Dakota, announced a letter of intent to develop a 15,000-head sustainable beef cattle feeding operation.
  • The Dakota Valley Growers (DVG) project will have indoor barns to ensure the cattle are adding protein instead of burning calories to stay warm or fight through mud.
  • Russell Edgar, founder of Dakota Valley Growers, said, "Bion can help us produce a better, more sustainable product and improve our bottom line at the same time.
  • That's good business for Dakota Valley Growers and good business for North Dakota and our corn farmers and cow-calf producers."

Bion Provides Fair Oaks Demonstration and Optimization Project Update

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Monday, February 13, 2023
Ammonia, Distillation, Cattle, BNET, Livestock, Engineering, JV, Diffusion, QB, OTC, Bion

They will be shipped to Fair Oaks within a week of final inspection verification, which is scheduled for February 15.

Key Points: 
  • They will be shipped to Fair Oaks within a week of final inspection verification, which is scheduled for February 15.
  • The demonstration and optimization system at Fair Oaks is at commercial scale, designed to treat and recover the ammonia from the waste load from approximately 1,500 cattle.
  • That will allow Bion to move forward with project development, including financing and permitting, on multiple fronts.
  • Bill O'Neill, Bion's CEO, said "We are really looking forward to checking the boxes at Fair Oaks.