September 2012
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Weekly News Roundup
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I’m bringing back the weekly news roundup and hopefully will be able to maintain this. These are some of the news that accumulated in my draft box for 2-3 weeks now so my apologies… Teijin’s polyester recycling in China Teijin…
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Bioplastics in baseball games
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The blog first mentioned BASF’s partnership with US major league baseball team Seattle Mariners in April this year, where fans were able to receive compost kit compliments of BASF, Ecosafe (the maker of compostable bags that uses BASF’s Ecovio biodegradable…
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Green cleaning products merger
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Too bad I won’t be able to attend the 1st ICIS European Surfactants conference this month as Belgium-based Ecover is one of the presenter in the conference. But I’m betting that there will be questions coming up about the company’s…
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NatureWorks expands PLA capacity
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Polylactic acid (PLA)-based bioplastic producer NatureWorks announced yesterday that it will increase production of its Ingeo biopolymer capacity at Blair, Nebraska, US, from 140,000 tonnes/year to 150,000 tonnes/year — a 7% increase — because of a proprietary production equipment developed by…
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Soy oil voted best coatings feedstock
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This is a very interesting analysis and bought me back to my days as “editor of oils, fats and waxes” at Chemical Market Reporter =). According to SpecialChem’s community insight on various plant-based industrial oils used for coatings application, soybean…
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Codexis cuts R&D ties with Shell
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Speaking of enzymes again, I have been following the biofuel collaboration between Codexis and Shell especially this year when Shell dropped cellulosic ethanol developer Iogen as its research partner in June. Codexis has been collaborating with the Shell-Iogen deal on…
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Novozymes expands bio-based activities
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Danish enzymes producer Novozymes is a very busy company these days both in the areas of renewable chemicals and biofuels. The blog already mentioned Novozymes’ collaboration with Cargill and BASF on sugar-based acrylic acid. The company also announced last month…