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In our webinar series “Putting Bacillus to Work”, MDG’s experts explore the many use cases and benefits of formulating IIC cleaning products with microbial ingredients. The next installment of the series, “Putting Bacillus to Work Part II: Drains & Grease Traps”, is coming soon! Join technical expert Jennifer Cray on Wednesday, August 12, 1:00 PM CDT as she discusses how Bacillus-based cleaning ingredients help create effective solutions for mitigating common drain and grease trap problems. Reserve your spot for free today! REGISTER HERE

At a Glance: Circadian rhythms are internal biological clocks that regulate various body processes, such as sleeping and waking. While external factors influence these cycles, internal factors within the gut microbiome also have a significant impact. By understanding this relationship, probiotic producers can formulate products that support the gut microbiome’s connection to the circadian system, potentially leading to positive health outcomes. As the human health field expands, experts are discovering previously unexplored connections between various body functions and the gut microbiome, one of which is its relationship with the circadian system. These rhythms are typically understood to be driven by external factors, such as light and food. However, research shows that the gut microbiome can have a much more significant effect on these rhythms than previously believed. Here’s what you need to know. What are circadian rhythms? Circadian rhythms are driven by the circadian system, an array of internal biological clocks that regulate various body processes, such as the sleep:wake cycle.1 These rhythms can be triggered by both external and internal stimuli. Common external influences include light levels, food intake, and even temperature changes.1 However, internal factors drive circadian rhythmicity as well. Clock-controlled genes, or CCGs, are a great example. […]

At a Glance: Both chemical- and biological-based products are common choices in the industrial, institutional, and consumer cleaning market, but they work in different ways and for different situations. Biological products typically provide a more thorough, long-lasting clean, even though results may not be immediately apparent. They excel at maintenance cleaning and prevention of future issues. Chemical products, on the other hand, may act quickly to provide visible results in the short term, but they tend to push problems further down the road instead of addressing them at the source. They’re usually good choices for cleaning emergencies. As environmental friendliness and green cleaning become more popular among consumers, formulating your products with biological ingredients is a great way to provide effective solutions while boosting your sales. Chemical-based products are a mainstay of the cleaning industry, but as consumer sentiment continues to shift toward environmental friendliness, biological-based cleaners have made headway in the market. As a distributor or manufacturer of cleaning products, your customers rely on you to provide the best possible solutions to their challenges. But without understanding the unique qualities of each popular type of cleaner, it can be difficult to make a strong recommendation. Let’s brush up on […]

Sludge accumulation and FOG backups. Unpleasant odors and consequences for excess gas emissions. These are just a few of the challenges that wastewater facility operators deal with each day. If you’re a provider of biological wastewater treatment solutions, you’re likely familiar with these problems, and you may even already offer products addressing them. But with such a long list of issues, it can be hard to know where bioaugmentation treatment will be most effective, both for your customers’ system health and your business’s bottom line. MDG’s Biotifx® Platform is designed to help you answer that question by providing high-quality products, comprehensive education, and expert-led, in-field training on treating wastewater with bioaugmentation. It all starts with understanding the easy-to-treat, high-value challenges you can address with biology. At MDG, we call them the “Big Three”: organic sludge; fats, oils, and grease (FOG); and hydrogen sulfide (H2S)/odors. Organic Sludge Sludge management is a major category of overall costs for wastewater treatment facilities. From purchasing dewatering chemistry/equipment to paying expensive rates for physical dredging, hauling, and disposal, these costs add up quickly. However, using bioaugmentation treatments with Bacillus bacteria, you can attack this problem at its source: sludge digestion. Wastewater sludge volume is mostly […]

The expansive capabilities of Bacillus bacteria make them ideal ingredients for environmentally friendlier products in many markets, including plant health. Our newest plant health product, GrowVantage™ LIFT, is another powerful addition to our microbial solutions designed to Feed, Clean, Save the World. About LIFT GrowVantage™ LIFT is a Bacillus-based product with strains specially selected for their ability to persist in the rhizosphere, the soil surrounding the roots of a plant. There, these Bacillus strains enhance the soil’s nutrient availability, which can lead to increased crop yield and better overall plant health. LIFT helps to consistently deliver healthier and more productive plants across a variety of soil and crop types. Our Bacillus in Action To demonstrate GrowVantage™ LIFT’s efficacy, we conducted 12 trials across four US states. These trials included five crop types—tomatoes, lettuce, corn, soybeans, and cotton. Our results indicated that LIFT supports plant health by improving shoot length, fresh weight, and yield. In fact, across the trials, yield in LIFT-treated plants improved by 3%–39% compared to control plants. If you’re interested in learning more about these results, reach out today for access to a case study covering LIFT’s benefits for tomato and lettuce plants. Power Your Plant Health Products […]

Operators of anaerobic digester facilities face a unique set of challenges. MDG’s newest innovative wastewater treatment offering, Biotifx® AN, helps distributors address those challenges through a combination of micronutrients and Bacillus bacteria. In our webinar “The Path to Quality and Stability in Anaerobic Digesters: Introducing Biotifx® AN”, technical experts Jennifer Cray and Josiah Menako uncover what makes this product so powerful—and share the data to prove it. Interested in watching the webinar? Contact us today to request a live recording! MDG is the Bacillus solution that helps you scale and streamline without sacrificing product effectiveness.  

MDG has a wealth of experience designing high-quality Bacillus-based solutions for a variety of markets, including human health. While we’re always developing our own innovative products, we also provide custom research partnerships for probiotic distributors looking to create unique solutions outside of our current offerings. Discover how we leverage our R&D platforms and technologies throughout the product development process to help you create an effective, differentiated probiotic that drives your business forward. Strain Sourcing Thanks to our large, diverse strain library, we can help you turn your probiotic ideas into reality. Our library comprises tens of thousands of isolates, all deliberately sourced from locations in which we expect to find strains with desirable mechanisms of action. For example, when we developed our latest industrial, institutional, and consumer cleaning ingredient SporActiv® CLEAR, we knew we wanted to tackle difficult-to-degrade odors. During the screening phase, we sourced from areas with highly challenging odors, giving us a better chance of finding Bacillus strains that would do what we needed them to do. Strain Testing and Evaluation We use a variety of testing and evaluation methods to fully understand each strain’s functions, such as whole genome sequencing, bioinformatics, and computational analytics. In screenings, we […]

At MDG, our mission is to Feed, Clean, Save the World through the development of microbial solutions that solve significant challenges in the markets we serve. We’re excited to continue working toward our mission by igniting our presence in the plant health market! Whether you’ve identified your own strain or you’re planning to use our products, our innovative Bacillus-based solutions and large capacity for contract manufacturing make us the ideal partner for advancing plant health and growth promotion. Microbial Solutions Each offering in our GrowVantage™ product line contains effective, high-quality Bacillus strains with results backed by extensive work from our R&D labs. Whether you’re looking for an ingredient to encourage robust root growth, improve soil health, or help increase yield, MDG will work with you to find a product that fits your specific needs. Our unique, environmentally friendlier solutions are also suitable for multiple applications and crop types. Formulating with GrowVantage™ ingredients can help your products stand out in the marketplace, propelling your business forward. Contract Manufacturing Capabilities If you’re looking for a partner to grow your unique plant health strain, MDG is well-positioned to meet your needs with our contract manufacturing offerings. We have three production facilities and a […]

We are excited to share that, for the second consecutive year, we’ve been chosen as a finalist for the Wisconsin Innovation Awards (WIA)! This annual award is granted to companies and individuals developing groundbreaking ideas and driving innovation in the state of Wisconsin. This year, WIA is recognizing our high-throughput probiotic discovery platform that helps speed up identification of microbial strains that can fight multidrug-resistant E. coli. Using this platform to help develop probiotic products for livestock, we can improve animal health and help prevent antibiotic-resistant bacteria in animals from reaching humans. These probiotics are already working in farms across the US, helping farmers keep their herds productive and healthy. “With antibiotic resistance rising globally and livestock producers losing effective tools, we saw a need for proactive, microbiome-based solutions,” says Kyle Leistikow, research manager of our CORE Innovation department. “Our team, comprised of experts in microbiology, genomics, bioinformatics, and animal health, came together to build a new system for designing probiotic products with targeted benefits.”

In “Putting Bacillus to Work Part I: Indoor Applications”, technical expert Jennifer Cray discussed how to leverage the capabilities of Bacillus to formulate highly effective cleaning products for indoor applications like floor and surface cleaning. Cray began with a simple question: “Why Bacillus?” According to data from multiple market reports, a major reason is consumer sentiment. As environmentally friendlier products become a higher priority for many buyers, biological ingredients like Bacillus can help manufacturers and distributors of cleaning solutions meet their customers’ needs and increase their sales in this rapidly growing market segment. Next, Cray dove into three indoor cleaning categories: carpet, tile/grout, and general surfaces. For each, she covered: Common questions MDG receives about formulating for these categories Specific cleaning situations within each category (e.g., spot treatment on carpets), along with application and dosage suggestions MDG lab data that demonstrate the effectiveness of Bacillus in tackling cleaning challenges Product formulation tips and best practices Attendees ended the webinar with an understanding of why microbials are such powerful ingredients in IIC cleaners and insight into which MDG SporActiv® products we recommend for specific situations. If you’re interested in the information from this webinar but weren’t able to join us live, […]