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RENEWABLE CHEMICAL EVENTS 2024
- Nov 13-14, Greener Manufacturing Conference & Expo, Cologne, Germany
- Nov 19-21, AFCC Global Biobased Economy Conference 2024, Washington D.C., USA
- Nov 20-21, Advanced Recycling Conference 2024, Cologne, Germany (Hybrid)
- Dec 10-11, European Bioplastics Conference 2024, Berlin, Germany
Latest Post
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Sustainea picks its Bio-MEG site
Sustainea announced this week that it has partnered with Primient to co-locate its planned corn-based monoethylene glycol (MEG) production facility in Lafayette, Indiana. Primient’s Sagamore site in Lafayette will supply the low-carbon dextrose feedstock for the project. Groundbreaking for the…
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Gevo bags Ethanol-to-Olefins Patent
Remember when Gevo was in a patent war with the now-defunct Butamax on isobutanol production and application processes? It turned out that Gevo had to pivot from isobutanol to producing ethanol instead. More recently, the company announced that it has…
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Doppelganger Plastics: a more desirable alternative?
By Dirk den Ouden, Vice President of Circular Chemicals at Stora Enso The problem with plastics – aside from all the environmental issues they entail – is that they are excellent. Weaning ourselves off them wouldn’t be a problem if…
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PLA Industry Buzz
Several polylactic acid (PLA) announcements occurred worldwide last month. In Europe, a new meta-study report commissioned by Holland Bioplastics concluded that PLA does not produce persistent microplastics when it undergoes hydrolysis. Several short-term field experiments and laboratory tests over several…
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The world’s first scalable biodegradable SAP?
Over the years, the development of bio-based superabsorbent polymer (SAP) has been limited, and more so for biodegradable SAP. Very few companies have been able to reach past the pilot production phase for bio-based acrylic acid, the key intermediate used…
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Technip Energies acquires Shell’s bio-glycols technology
Technip Energies, a French engineering and technology company for the energy industry and chemicals sector, announced on 27 June its acquisition of Shell Catalysts & Technologies’ (SC&T) glycol purification technology to accelerate Technip’s commercialization of its Bio-2-GlycolsTM technology. This technology transfer…
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CO2-based chemicals in action
UK-based Econic Technologies has certainly been busy this year. In April, Econic signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Japan-based Sanyo Chemical to produce CO2-based polycarbonate ether polyol (PCE) for polyurethane applications. The resulting high-performance polyols can be used in…
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Precision Fermentation: What is it?
Our friend from Sustainability Consult sent this news release about their client, the US-based start-up DMC Biotechnologies. The company recently announced its partnership with two major French industrial leaders, Danone and Michelin, and with Crédit Agricole Centre France, a key…
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RMC2024 Day 2 Coverage
Coverage of the Renewable Materials Conference in Siegburg, Germany. Day 2 of the Renewable Materials Conference started with presentations from Nova-Institut’s market update on its bio-based polymers report and an interesting review on algae-based polymers. I participated in this session…
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RMC2024 Day 1 Coverage
Coverage of the Renewable Materials Conference in Siegburg, Germany. It was another awesome Renewable Materials Conference this year, thanks to the Nova-Institut GmbH team! The main sessions on Day 1 featured an overview of the chemical industry, particularly what is…
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Welcome to the refreshed GCB
The Green Chemicals Blog is back with new posts coming soon! After a year-long hiatus, the Green Chemicals Blog was relaunched with a better layout, more social media offerings, and advertising services. After more than 20 years in the Chemical…
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Introducing Green D Market Analytics
ð¿ Happy New Year, Green Chemicals Blog Community! ðð As we stand on the threshold of a new year, I am honored to extend my heartfelt gratitude to each of you, the dedicated followers of the Green Chemicals Blog. In…
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New partnership deals
The blog has been a bit late delivering fresh news lately but hopefully our extra content is good enough compensation. Early this week, Italian chemical company Versalis announced its partnership with Yulex, a US company that has developed a guayule…
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LS9 looks for commercialization partnership
I had the pleasure of briefly speaking to LS9’s new CEO Tjerk de Ruiter this week and I was pleasantly surprised that he remembered this newbie “green” reporter back in 2008 when I interviewed him about Genencor’s bio-isoprene and biofuel…
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Oleochemical updates
This post is long overdue but fortunately I will be able to use some of the information here for my incoming presentation at the Plant Bio-Industrial Oils (PBIO) Workshop to be held on March 6-7 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Some of…
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LS9 continues on with new CEO
I received several inquiries today regarding the rumor that came out from Biofuel Digest this morning that San Francisco-based LS9 was possibly closing down with staff going to being laid off. Tjerk De Ruiter Unfortunately, I was traveling throughout the…
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NatureWorks starts Asia expansion plans
It has been quite a while since the blog had an update about NatureWorks’ plans for its polylactic acid (PLA) expansion in Thailand ever since PTT Global Chemical announced the completion of its 50% stake acquisition of NatureWorks in June…
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Biofuel News Roundup
BIOX resumes biodiesel production Canada-based BIOX Corp. has resumed biodiesel production at its Hamilton, Ontario, facility after temporarily suspending operation last October. The company stated improvements in US biodiesel market and confidence in market outlook as reasons for resuming production….
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Weekly News Roundup
I have so many updates to post but I’ll start with our Weekly News Roundup which was supposed to have come out yesterday but I got distracted with my planned participation at the Plant-based Bio-Industrial Oils (PBIO) conference to be…
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BNDES invests $294m in GraalBio
This is all over the news today as Brazilian development bank Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico e Social (BNDES) announced yesterday another hundred million dollars loan approval this time with Brazilian cellulosic biomass technology developer GraalBio following another announcement last…
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2013 New Biofuels Reports
Two new reports just came out for this year covering biofuels. This first one about the sustainability challenge concerning global biofuels is from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN). FAO released a report that addresses…
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More green funding comes in
I think this is a good sign that various governments, banks and investors are putting in more cash and loans this month for biofuel /renewable chemical activities (see earlier post on the funding prospects for 2013). This week, Solazyme’s joint…
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