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
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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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Booming University green chems research
The blog has been seeing a lot of R&D news from various universities on how to improve green chemistry processing and these are definitely worthwhile checking out. Here’s one from the University of Florida (UF) about their research in turning…
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Cereplast seeks $50m opportunity in Italy plastic bag ban
Bioplastic producer Cereplast put out this news yesterday about an Italian decree enforcing the legislation of a plastic bag ban effective May 27, 2013. Cereplast noted that the decree — published on March 18 in Italy’s Official Gazette — stated…
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Amyris updates partnership deals
I’ve been reading Amyris’ recently filed annual report (10-K) with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which gives a comprehensive summary of the company’s performance last year, and it reminds the blog how difficult and risky it is for…
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UPDATE: Myriant to expand bio-succinic sales
As I’ve promised, I will post an update about my recent communications with Myriant regarding their partnership announcement with Bayegan. Here are my Q&A with Alif Saleh, VP of Sales and Marketing at Myriant: 1.What are the market applications for…
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Biofuel News Roundup
It’s Spring season and the green blogger needs to clean up the blog’s draft box… Mascoma withdraws IPO registration statement NASA begins flight research campaign using alternate jet fuel Southern Research Institute Wins $925,000 Dept. of Energy Award to Liquefy Biomass…
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Weekly News Roundup
There were so many news that came out last week that it is hard for me catching up with some of them. In this rare case, I am posting the weekly news roundup with only the headlines and links in…
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Metabolix partners with Tianjin GreenBio
I entered my 3*th year this weekend suffering from a bad cold but the good news is that there will be no more traveling until early May when I have to present a Biobased chemical feedstock paper at the Asia…
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Anellotech readies bio-BTX start
I just heard back from Myriant about their recent partnership announcement with Bayegan and I am going to update my last post about it soon. In the meantime, let me put out this news from Anellotech, which for some mysterious…
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Green Chem Blog Partners with Tecnon OrbiChem
Good Morning from the sunny (but chilly!) San Antonio, Texas! I am here at the American Fuel and Petrochemicals Manufacturers (AFPM) meeting and I just wanted to make a formal announcement that the Green Chemicals Blog is now in association…
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Algae 2013 Survey
The Algae Biomass Organization recently released its 2013 industry survey conducted in January where more than 470 people within the algae industry submitted their opinions and projections on the industry’s growth, barriers to advancement and policy priorities through 2020. According…

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