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Bion’s New Patent Expands Coverage to Industrial and Municipal Waste Streams

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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Bion just optimized the ARS at its Fair Oaks facility for the final design process for full-scale animal waste systems.

Key Points: 
  • Bion just optimized the ARS at its Fair Oaks facility for the final design process for full-scale animal waste systems.
  • With this fifth patent, Bion’s IP now covers organic waste streams from industrial and municipal sources, as well.
  • ANIMAL WASTE There are 473 animal waste digesters operating in the U.S. today, most on dairy operations.
  • We’ve already seen results at Fair Oaks that demonstrate we can configure the ARS for the economics of industrial waste streams.

Bion’s Ammonia Recovery Technology Optimization Moves to Final Design

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Thursday, January 4, 2024

Bion will now begin the final design process for full-scale systems.

Key Points: 
  • Bion will now begin the final design process for full-scale systems.
  • Bion’s ARS produces premium fertilizer products from the volatile ammonia in livestock waste.
  • Final economic and energy efficiency models will be validated during the final design process, which should be completed in the first quarter of 2024.
  • Operating results to date at Fair Oaks indicate ARS performance will exceed initial expectations for ammonia recovery and economics.

Senior Agronomy Executive Chris Cook Joins Bion’s Advisory Group

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023

New York, NY, Dec. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB: BNET), a developer of advanced livestock waste treatment technology and premium sustainable beef, announced today that Chris Cook will join Bion’s Advisory Group, where he will provide his expertise on agronomy, crop production, and fertilizers.

Key Points: 
  • New York, NY, Dec. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB: BNET), a developer of advanced livestock waste treatment technology and premium sustainable beef, announced today that Chris Cook will join Bion’s Advisory Group, where he will provide his expertise on agronomy, crop production, and fertilizers.
  • Chris brings almost 30 years of experience in production agronomy to Bion, the last decade in leadership roles with Syngenta, focused on business strategy, profitable sales growth, stakeholder relations and business development.
  • Syngenta AG, headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, is an agricultural science and technology provider, in particular seeds, crop protection products, biologicals, and digital agricultural solutions.
  • Chris Cook said, “Bion’s technology platform and strategic partner approach can help bring real sustainability to the livestock industry.

Food Service Executive Steve Sands Joins Bion’s Advisory Group

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Monday, December 4, 2023

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

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

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

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.”

BNET Offers Emergency Reentry Solution in Response to Maui Disaster Recovery

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Friday, September 15, 2023

FULTON, N.Y., Sept. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BNET offers emergency reentry, now with interoperability between CEAS jurisdictional programs.

Key Points: 
  • FULTON, N.Y., Sept. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- BNET offers emergency reentry, now with interoperability between CEAS jurisdictional programs.
  • Why do emergency managers still struggle with post-disaster reentry after all the lessons learned in the past?
  • What happened in Maui can be evaluated for future learning for all emergency managers.
  • Author: Pete Picarillo, President & Chief Executive Officer, BNET, Inc., can be reached at (888) 353-2638 for reentry access program questions.

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

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Tuesday, August 15, 2023

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

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.