Happy Thanksgiving to our US readers! I am sure many of you are eagerly waiting for a get-together (and eat!) with friends and family tonight. Speaking of food, some of you might already have heard about various plant-derived meat varieties that finally taste like real meat, and are now available in the consumer world such … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEManus Bio’s first biotech manufacturing facility in Augusta, Georgia – a 44-acre fermentation and ingredient processing plant – is ready to start producing ingredients for flavors and fragrances, sweeteners, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and agricultural chemicals, as the company updated the former NutraSweet artificial sweetener plant, which had been idled since 2015. So far, the Company has … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACERecently, Greenpeace released a report on corporations and plastics pollution and specifically addressed the use of bioplastics. While some of their discussion had merit, the US organization Plant Based Products Council (PBPC) reported on its Accountability Blog that Greenpeace’s coverage of bioplastics fell short. PBPC took out its red pen to correct the record and … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACESince 2013, Tecnon OrbiChem has been providing information on bio-based chemicals including oleochemicals in our monthly Bio-Materials Chemical Business Focus. We have both expanded and focussed our oleochemicals coverage to create a new Oleochemicals Including Surfactants, Biofuels and Glycerol-derived Intermediates Chemical Business Focus monthly report. The content and format of this new service is based … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEThe bio-based glycols market is slowly coming back to life with the addition of new capacities from several companies I’ve been covering these past few years. Last week, Avantium inaugurated its plant-based MEG (monoethylene glycol) demonstration factory in Chemie Park Delfzijl, the Netherlands, using a chemo-catalytic technology the company named Ray Technology™. The demonstration plant, … Continue reading
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