BioMADE at Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC) 2025
BioMADE will be showcasing the innovation and power of bioindustrial manufacturing at the Defense Manufacturing Conference (DMC) November 17-20, 2025. If you’re attending, stop by our exhibit at Booth 407 to check out new products made by members, and attend BioMADE’s session, Making Something Out of Nothing: Bioindustrial Manufacturing for the Warfighter on Thursday, November 20 at 1:30 pm, moderated by Melanie Tomczak, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Programs at BioMADE and featuring panelists:
Derek Greenfield, Founder and President, Industrial Microbes
Allison Pieja, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Mango Materials
Session Description
Imagine U.S. warfighters having the ability to manufacture what they need, where they need it using only post-consumer waste material. That vision can become reality by unleashing the power of bioindustrial manufacturing. Attend this session to get a peek at the military bases of the future, and how they are making carbon fiber from ethanol and carbon dioxide; plastic from methane gas; carbon black from agricultural waste, and textiles and fibers from spent yeast.
These outputs can ultimately be made into lightweight yet high-strength components for vehicles and aircraft, degradable bioplastic replacements with unique properties, tires and other rubber products, and fibers with enhanced properties such as physical durability, repellency to water, and burn protection. These innovative technologies will allow for decentralized, point-of-need production of needed materials under contested logistics and in remote areas, which saves convoys, travel, and fuels and ultimately keeps warfighters safer.
Learn how bioindustrial manufacturing has the power to secure global chemical supply chains, enhance military readiness, and address contested logistics challenges through supply chain resilience. By fundamentally transforming how we manufacture products, bioindustrial manufacturing creates needed materiel with novel properties that impact nearly every aspect of our lives. Bioindustrial manufacturing enhances national security by creating more robust and resilient domestic supply chains – but that’s just the beginning.