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Solazyme plant capacity online
Solazyme just published this You Tube video of their new 128,000-liter fermentation operation in Peoria, Illinois. The company said its algae-based oils production capacity is now online and based on my previous reports about the facility, the plant is expected to have a nameplate capacity of 2m liters/year of oil. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mFzCAYoLVs&w=500&h=315] The facility was partially … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEWeekly News Roundup
Second exam coming up next week! My other half is looking at me with evil eye as I type this post. By the way, thanks for the well-wishes on the blog’s first monthsary (or is it monthsiversary?? — these made-up words will boot me out of my English class…) Here are this week’s news roundup. … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEOne month blog milestone
It has been a month since the new Green Chemicals blog has been launched and I just wanted to say thank you to all those who have continuously followed the green blogger as well as those who have just checked out this blog. It has been an incredible month as the blog was able to … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEBio-based specialty chems thrive
My last article from ICIS this year was just published as part of the SOCMA Leadership 2012 supplement. I was assigned to write an article on how specialty chemicals companies such as Allylix, Rivertop Renewables, and Blue Marble Biomaterials (BMB) are doing amid financing pressures and mainstream media focusing more towards bio-based commodity products as … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACECoca-Cola picks 2nd bio-EG supplier
Happy October! It feels like it has been awhile since I last posted. School is creating chaos on my grand blogging plans but the blogger will persist. Finally, Coca-Cola announced it’s long-awaited bio-based monoethylene glycol (bio-MEG) plans for its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) PlantBottle as the plastic industry has always been curious on how Coca-Cola will … Continue reading
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