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Anellotech readies bio-BTX start
I just heard back from Myriant about their recent partnership announcement with Bayegan and I am going to update my last post about it soon. In the meantime, let me put out this news from Anellotech, which for some mysterious reason, have escaped my news radar for the past week or so. It has been … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEGreen Chem Blog Partners with Tecnon OrbiChem
Good Morning from the sunny (but chilly!) San Antonio, Texas! I am here at the American Fuel and Petrochemicals Manufacturers (AFPM) meeting and I just wanted to make a formal announcement that the Green Chemicals Blog is now in association with UK-based consulting firm Tecnon OrbiChem. With this partnership, the blog will be able to … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEAlgae 2013 Survey
The Algae Biomass Organization recently released its 2013 industry survey conducted in January where more than 470 people within the algae industry submitted their opinions and projections on the industry’s growth, barriers to advancement and policy priorities through 2020. According to the survey, respondents this year more optimistic that algae fuels will be price competitive … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEBig biofuel news: KLM, Kior, Sapphire
While I’m battling some sort of a bug, which hopefully will go away before my trip to the AFPM meeting this coming weekend, here are some big news from the biofuel industry coming from KLM, Kior and Sapphire Energy. Let’s start with KLM, which announced on March 8 that it is now operating a weekly … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEFrom Pike Research: Green Garbage
Pike Research’s Mackinnon Lawrence estimates the theoretical potential for biofuels production from global waste to be around 35bn gal/year today. This would more than double current production of biofuels worldwide while extracting untapped value from nearly 1.5 billion tons of waste. Garbage (or, as the industry refers to it, municipal solid waste, or MSW), is a rising … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEBio-1,3 PDO market update
Photo source: DuPont The blog saw this news about Lambert-Saint Louis International Airport (STL) claiming to be the first in the US to use a biobased de-icing fluid using Kilfrost DFSustain Type 1 bio-propanediol (PDO). The deicing operations were carried out by Airport Terminal Services, which serves several major airlines at Lambert and other airports … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEVideo: Bio-on and its PHA story
I rarely see news about Italian polyhydroxyalkanoic (PHA) producer Bio-on so this video in English subbing is a great source of information (it’s a 20+ minute video but very entertaining). The last news the blog reported about Bio-on was when its partner Italian lighting company FLOS launched last year a designer lamp made with PHA … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEWeekly News Roundup
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! In honor of the color green, the blog is posting its weekly news roundup in an unprecedented early schedule :). There really had been so many announcements that came out last week that I am unable to post them individually. Hopefully, I’ll give justice to some of them here. By the … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEBiobased coatings/adhesives news
I don’t usually get many news covering biobased chemicals for coatings and adhesives and the last big one was about the partnership between Henkel and Danimer on developing bio-based hotmelt adhesives for consumer packaging. And maybe I can also add the blog’s recent post about biobased methyl methacrylate since it is also an intermediate in … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEBio-MMA development expands
I have reported about the development of biobased methyl methacrylate (MMA) only one time in November 2011 when Mitsubishi Rayon (MRC) and its subsidiary Lucite International announced that they have developed bio-based MMA, a chemical used in coatings, transparent plastics and adhesives. This week, a start-up Minneapolis-based company called Ascenix BioTechnologies reportedly has licensed a … Continue reading
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