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County pledges $10 million to help launch Beam Circular bioeconomy campus in Stanislaus
Summary
Chair Vito Chiesa said Stanislaus County pledged $10 million to support a Beam Circular bioeconomy innovation campus that will convert agricultural byproducts into products and jobs; he said $35 million in additional funding (including $13 million private investment) has been generated for the initiative.
Chiesa described a county partnership with Beam Circular aimed at developing a bioeconomy that converts agricultural byproducts—nutshells, orchard wood and food-processing residues—into new products and manufacturing opportunities.
He said Stanislaus County pledged $10 million to anchor the initiative and cited $35 million of additional funding already brought to the project, including about $13 million in private investment. Chiesa said Beam expects to open an initial phase of a California bioeconomy innovation campus in Stanislaus County that will host multiple companies, researchers and students and provide shared facilities for commercialization.
Chiesa framed the work as building on Stanislaus 2030 research with the Brookings Institution and as a way to sustain agriculture while expanding manufacturing and workforce training.
The chair described the campus as a shared innovation space to help bridge research and commercial manufacturing and to create good-paying jobs in the region.
