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Twitter Live: BIO World Congress Day 1
The BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology is considered the world’s largest international industrial biotech event with this year’s more than 1,200 attendees representing 725 companies from 50 different countries. Here are some snippets tweeted from the event. FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACE
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEFrench law to strengthen bioplastics market
It was a great BIO World Congress conference last week with so much information and great meetings, that I have to now put most of my notes for the July Tecnon OrbiChem Bio-Materials newsletter. Look out for my blog posts on twitter compilations from the conference (when I get a break writing the newsletter) but … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEBIO announcements galore
Attending BIO World Congress is, as usual, a whirlwind of meetings and presentations galore. There were several big announcements that came out yesterday and here are some of them. For more news at BIO, follow #BIOWC15 on twitter. Cargill and Genomatica Partnership – the companies announced their collaboration to accelerate production of renewable chemicals for … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEDOE awards $18m grant to algae-based projects
Let me post this before I leave for Montreal, Canada, today. The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced six projects that will receive up to $18 million in funding to reduce the modeled price of algae-based biofuels to less than $5 per gasoline gallon equivalent (gge) by 2019. Algal biomass can be converted to … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACECSIRO licenses Super High Oleic Safflower Oil
When I was a reporter at the previously titled Chemical Market Reporter (now known as ICIS Chemical Business), I used to cover several specialty oilseeds markets such as safflower, camelina, high erucic rapeseed, castor, lesquerella, hemp, etc. I also covered the developing genetically modified oilseeds back then such as high oleic soybeans and canola. Oilseeds … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEMore off-take bio deal with Vinmar
Vinmar is on a roll when it comes to doing off-take supply deals in the renewables sector. After the BioAmber bio-succinic acid deal, Vinmar recently announced that it has signed a 20-year contract for 19 billion pounds of AirCarbon PHA from Newlight Technologies. The Vinmar contract provides for the sale of 100% of AirCarbon PHA … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEDuPont’s cellulosic ethanol tech in China
DuPont announced a licensing deal with Jilin Province New Tianlong Industry Co. Ltd. (NTL) for the use of DuPont’s cellulosic ethanol technology and its Accelerase enzymes for the production of renewable biofuel from leftover biomass on Jilin Province’s corn farms. This project aims to develop China’s largest cellulosic ethanol manufacturing plant to be located in … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACELanzaTech, ArcelorMittal in bio-ethanol project
LanzaTech announced yesterday that it has partnered with ArcelorMittal, a leading steel and mining company, and Primetals Technologies, a technology and service provider to the iron and steel industry, for a bio-ethanol project that will use waste gases, e.g. carbon monoxide, produced from steelmaking process as feedstock. The pilot project is expected to have a … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEBio-succinic acid and PDO in polyols
Before I forget this news that came in last month (all the news and information I get, I write it up on Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-materials newsletter first), the bio-based polyurethane sector is certainly getting a lot of buzz and developments especially with the use of bio-monomers such as succinic acid, bio-1,3 PDO, bio-BDO, etc.). I am … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEStudy: EU Bioeconomy worth EUR2 trillion
The EU might be currently facing challenges right now with the Greece debt issue but it is noticeable that this region is upping its ante when it comes to investing in bio-based chemicals with its various public-private R&D and commercialization programs. In a preview from a new study by nova-Institut, it is estimated that the … Continue reading
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