RENEWABLE CHEMICAL EVENTS 2025
- Apr 29-30, CO2-based Fuels and Chemicals Conference, Cologne, Germany
- May 7-8, 15th ICIS World Surfactants Conference, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
- Jun 10-11, World Bio Markets, The Hague, Netherlands
- Jun 11-12, Future of Surfactants Summit 2025, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Sept 15-16, Bio Innovations Midwest, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
- Sept 22-24, Renewable Materials Conference, Siegburg, Germany
- Nov 16-18, AFCC Global Biobased Economy Conference & Exhibit, Washington D.C., USA
- Nov 19-20, Advanced Recycling Conference, Cologne, Germany
- Dec 2-3, European Bioplastics Conference, Berlin, Germany
Latest Post
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US Biotech and National Security
The National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology (NSCEB) has released a pivotal report highlighting the strategic importance of biotechnology to U.S. national security and expressing concern over China’s rapid advancements in this sector. The report underscores that the United States,…
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IFF and Kemira launch AlphaBio JV
IFF and specialty chemicals company Kemira launched Alpha Bio, a joint venture aimed at commercial-scale production of renewable bio-based materials with an investment value of €130 million. The Alpha Bio facility, to be located at the IFF biorefinery in Kotka,…
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Status and Outlook: Bio-based Polymers worldwide
Expert insight into capacity developments, investments, and new policy frameworks Author: Michael Carus, Founder and CEO nova-Institute (Germany) As the New Year begins, let’s take a closer look at the current state of bio-based polymers. We look at the rapidly…
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Global bioplastics update at EBC24
The Green Chemicals Blog extends warm wishes for a joyful holiday season! As we conclude 2024, we reflect on the highlights and insights of this year’s coverage of the European Bioplastics Conference held earlier this month in Berlin, Germany. The…
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Coverage of the AFCC 2024
Uncertainty emerged as a central theme at the 4th Annual Global Biobased Economy Conference, held in Washington, D.C., and hosted by the Alternative Fuels and Chemicals Coalition (AFCC). The event brought together over 500 attendees to discuss the future of…
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METEX updates on bio-PDO and other projects
France-based METabolic EXplorer has been going through a lot of challenges lately especially with their recent restructuring (27 employees were laid off and the blog communicated with one of them) as well as the delay in the company’s biobased 1,3…
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Weekly News Roundup
DESCA evaluates green chemistry incubator The Delaware Sustainable Chemistry Alliance (DESCA) has formally begun the evaluation process for establishing a regional green chemistry incubator. DESCA is concurrently benchmarking and developing several business models, sources of financing, external resources for outsourced…
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Global Bioenergies partners with Arkema
France-based Global Bioenergies is stepping up its biobased isobutene development from laboratory to industrial scale and it has partnered with ARD, a specialist in the up-scaling of fermentation processes; specialty chemical firm Arkema, and two CNRS (Centre National de la…
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BioAmber partners with Brenntag
The bio-succinic acid market is really starting their commercialization efforts in full force with several distributor partnership announcements. This week, BioAmber said it has partnered with one of the world’s largest chemical distributor, Brenntag, for the distribution of BioAmber’s Bio-SA…
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Biobased market studies galore!
It is time to post several market studies announcements that have been stewing in the blog’s draft box. These are mostly prospectus or executive summaries so of course you still have to pay for the full report. BIO-BUTANOL A recent…
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AkzoNobel, Solvay deepen bio-partnership
Belgium-based Solvay and Dutch specialty chemical firm AkzoNobel have been very cozy lately as the two companies formed two deals on renewable chemicals this year. Today, the companies said they have signed a three-year agreement where Solvay will supply refined…
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Avantium, ALPLA on PEF bottles
It has been awhile since the blog had an update from Avantium. The company announced last week its joint development agreement with major plastic converter ALPLA Werke Lehner GmbH for the development of PEF (polyethylene furanoate) bottles. Avantium is expecting…
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Myriant, PTTGC form Auria Biochemical
This is Doris blogging under Tecnon OrbiChem (cool huh?). The blog will soon see views from under TOC analysts reporting on biobased chemicals so stay tune! Meanwhile, here is a news that I stumbled upon while doing some research on…
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What is biobased economy?
Good Monday morning! (or afternoon if you’re in Europe, evening if you’re in Asia) I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the newly updated blog will not crash on me. The blog now has the capabilities of posting various video platforms,…
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ICIS World Surfactants Day 2
Compilation of live tweets from ICIS World Surfactants Conference held on May 16-17 in New Jersey, USA

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