2014
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Renewable Chemical Sustainability Survey
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Hello from China! I am attending the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Conference (CPCIC) this week in Tianjin and will give a short presentation about bio-based chemicals commercialization as…
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Liquid by-products slow biofuels process – PNNL
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Scientists from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (DOE-PNNL) discovered that water in the biofuel conversion process helps form an impurity which, in turn, slows down key chemical…
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Siluria bags $30m funding from Saudi Aramco
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Siluria Technologies closed a $30 million Series D financing round led by Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (SAEV), the venture investment subsidiary of Saudi Aramco. With this initial Series D financing, Siluria…
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CO2 to Malic Acid by Industrial Microbes
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I received this press release in May but unfortunately I was not able to post it until now. San Francisco, California-based Industrial Microbes announced that the Climate Change and…
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New catalyst converts CO2 to fuel
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Scientists from the University of Illinois at Chicago have synthesized a catalyst that improves their system for converting waste carbon dioxide into syngas, a precursor of gasoline and other…
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HallStar acquires Florasolvs® natural esters
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The HallStar Company, a Chicago-based specialty chemistry company, has acquired the Florasolvs® natural esters product line of specialty ingredients from FloraTech, a global provider of botanically-derived ingredients for personal care…
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Elevance funds polymer research program at Virginia Tech
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Elevance has partnered with Virginia Tech, a leading research institution in Virginia, on a research program that aims to enable engineered polymer and CASE partners and customers to create new…