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ACC released guidance for mass balance certification standards
The American Chemistry Council’s Plastics Division announced a set of principles for mass balance certification standards that will trace and help increase plastics recycling and support markets for the outputs from advanced plastics recycling. A mass balance approach measures the amount of used plastic that enters advanced recycling processes and makes certain that claims of … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEMaine to implement Renewable Products Tax Credit
On March 18, 2020, the governor of Maine signed a legislation that promotes the production of renewable products in the state of Maine. This legislation, which offers an 8 cents per pound tax credit for the production of renewable chemicals and reinstates a latent biofuels tax credit at 5 cents per gallon, will reportedly help … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEConfidential Survey: COVID-19 Business Impact
Please take five minutes to answer eight questions that will allow us to ascertain basic economic impact data that I will share with all respondents. The responses will be kept strictly confidential and neither you or your company will be identified. This is an unprecedented crisis and the more that people share the better prepared … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACEGinkgo commits $25M for COVID-19 projects
Synthetic biology company Ginkgo Bioworks announced its $25 million commitment for free access to its platform in the development of a long-term solution to the COVID-19 crisis. Companies building treatments that can stop COVID-19 can now avail of Ginkgo’s services: For the manufacturing of nucleic acid-based vaccines: Provide process development capacity with Ginkgo’s large bank of … Continue reading
FOLLOW ME ON THESE SPACECommercialisation updates on bio-based building blocks
The exit of key players, restructuring of production capacities worldwide, a shrinking pool of new start-up companies but also burgeoning discovery and increasing production of new building blocks Tecnon OrbiChem and the nova-Institute release their latest “Commercialisation updates on bio-based building blocks” http://bio-based.eu/reports/ Please contact info@orbichem.com to request a Table of Contents Since the last report in … Continue reading
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