By Dusty Sonnenberg, CCA, Field Leader, a project of the Ohio Soybean Council and Soybean Check-off Creating demand for soybeans and soy products is one of the purposes of the soybean checkoff, increasing the return on investment to farmers. The Airable Research Laboratory provides early-stage soy-based materials research. As an independent laboratory owned by Ohio’s soybean farmers and under the oversight of the Ohio Soybean Council, the lab reduces the financial risk for in

For this edition of Plant-Based Leaders, we interviewed Barry McGraw, the founder and Chief Laboratory Officer of Airable Research Lab. Airable partners with commercial and industrial clients, conducting R&D – at no cost to those clients – to help design and develop new products that utilize soy-based feedstocks that solve industrial and consumer challenges. Q: How would you describe Airable’s mission? A: Airable is dedicated to developing soybean-based technologies and there

Columbus is home to world-class, cutting-edge product research and development. But only one of its R&D companies focuses 100% on developing safe, sustainable products made from the soybean oil grown right here in the Buckeye State. Airable Research Lab, a business line of the Ohio Soybean Council, is located in Delaware, on Ohio Wesleyan University’s campus and is run by Chief Laboratory Officer Barry McGraw. According to him, sustainability is at the heart of everything Air