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Provitro Biosciences Awarded First-Ever U.S. Patent for Large-Scale Production of Bamboo Plants
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Provitro Biosciences Awarded First-Ever U.S. Patent for Large-Scale Production of Bamboo Plants

Foundational Intellectual Property Enables Commercial Production of Fast Growing, High Yielding Timber Bamboo Mt. Vernon, Wa. (PR Newswire), May 7, 20...

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Commercializing Bamboo: A Game Changer
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Commercializing Bamboo: A Game Changer

Jackie Heinricher explains how Booshoot overcame the biological, environmental and economic challenges of bringing bamboo to the commercial market.

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Bamboo Fiber Properties Brochure
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Bamboo Fiber Properties Brochure

Bamboo is fast becoming a preferred fiber alternative. Learn how Booshoot is making it happen.

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05/07/2013

Provitro Biosciences Awarded First-Ever U.S. Patent for Large-Scale Production of Bamboo Plants

Foundational Intellectual Property Enables Commercial Production of Fast Growing, High Yielding Timber Bamboo

Mt. Vernon, Wa. (PR Newswire), May 7, 2013 – Provitro Biosciences LLC (or “Provitro”), a subsidiary of Pendrell Corporation (NASDAQ: PCO) today received a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office covering foundational technologies that enable the rapid, disease-free, and high volume production more >

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02/25/2013

Pendrell Acquires Majority Stake in Booshoot

Global Leader in Advanced Plant Propagation Technologies has Developed Intellectual Property Portfolio with Broad Applicability to Forestry, Agriculture and Horticultural Industries

Kirkland, WA. and Mt. Vernon, WA. (PR Newswire) February 25, 2013 –Pendrell Corporation (NASDAQ: PCO ) and Provitro Biosciences LLC (formerly Booshoot LLC, or “Booshoot”) announced today that Pendrell has acquired a sixty-eight percent stake in Provitro Biosciences, more >

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02/21/2013

Commercializing Bamboo: A Game Changer

Jackie Heinricher explains how Booshoot overcame the biological, environmental and economic challenges of bringing bamboo to the commercial market.

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01/08/2013

Jackie Heinricher: Evergreen

Evergreen State College, Alumni Profile (January 2013) Jackie Heinricher ’86 is leading a biological revolution. She runs Booshoot Gardens in Mount Vernon, Wash., a multimillion-dollar biotechnology company she started in her Anacortes barn.

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11/15/2012

Why Kimberly-Clark is Banking on Bamboo

GreenBiz (November 9, 2012) When Kimberly-Clark announced its plan to source 50 percent of its wood fiber to alternative sources by 2025 — more than the amount that’s in three billion rolls of toilet paper — the company wasn’t quite sure how it would make that happen.

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09/10/2012

Bamboo Expert Sees Growth Opportunity

Seattle Times business reporter Johanna Somers profiled Booshoot on June 26, 2012, detailing the company’s newest corporate partnerships, leadership team and vision for transforming the fiber industry. 

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09/10/2012

Booshoot and Kimberly-Clark Sign Development Agreement to Support Production of Tissue Products Made with Bamboo Fiber

World’s Largest Tissue Manufacturer Teams with Global Leader in Bamboo Forestry to Develop Fiber Alternatives and Protect Threatened Natural Forests

MOUNT VERNON, WA and DALLAS, TX (September 10, 2012) — Booshoot, a biotechnology company focused on bamboo forestry, agriculture and nursery wholesale, and Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB), today announced an important development agreement that will enable Kimberly-Clark to explore more >

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07/17/2012

Booshoot Takes Bamboo Into Paper Market

San Francisco Chronicle (July 14, 2012) Booshoot has landed clients such as Home Depot, Costco and, most recently Kimberly-Clark, the world’s largest tissue manufacturer.

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07/16/2012

Home Depot & Booshoot Sign Distribution Agreement

GrowerTalks Magazine (July 2012)  Booshoot announced it has signed a nationwide strategic distribution agreement with Home Depot. The three-season agreement, which took effect this spring, focuses on the marketing of non-invasive clumping bamboos under the branded program Bamboo That Behaves.

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07/03/2012

Green Gold

Southeast Asia Globe (July 3, 2012) Southeast Asia is sitting on a bamboo bounty, it just doesn’t know it yet.

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