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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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In Memoriam: Guido Ghisolfi 1956-2015
The Green Chemicals blog is sad to hear the terrible news about Guido Ghisolfi’s passing and we are offering our condolences to the M&G Group, Beta Renewables and their associated companies of this great loss not only to them but to…
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Fundings 1Q 2015
Several news just came in yesterday and the blog is still catching up from interviews made the past 4-5 weeks. I am hoping to soon post articles about the starch market, the world of enzymes, biotech-based surfactants, updates on levulinic…
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Solazyme still faces production challenges at Moema
I wonder how long the petrochemical industry had perfected its processing technologies before it was able to reach an economical, efficient level? Unfortunately, investors today are not too forgiving when new, untested technologies from public companies are facing commercialization challenges….
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Reverdia gets bio-succinic acid patents
The renewable chemicals market seems to be quiet in general but I am hoping to get fresh updates next month especially in the bioplastics sector when I attend the NPE International Plastics trade show next month. And yes, I am also…
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NREL’s new enzyme catalyzes plant cell walls faster
Sorry for the cut and paste version of this news as I am currently under heavy deadline of my Bio-Materials newsletter… Scientists at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed an enzyme that could change the economics…
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Global Bioenergies hits bio-methacrylic acid milestone
So while the bio-acrylic acid development and commercialization seem to have stalled a bit (see my recent post), France-based Global Bioenergies announced that it has reached its first milestone in the development of bio-based methacrylic acid (trademarked under BioMA+) using…
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Setback on bio-acrylic acid R&D progress?
In the midst of falling oil prices and cheaper petrochemical prices, Novozymes recently announced that BASF has exited its collaboration with the company and Cargill on their bio-acrylic acid project. Coincidence? Maybe. Correct me if I’m wrong but a big chemical…
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Twitter Live ACI 2015: Part 3
Twitter coverage of the American Cleaning Institute (ACI) Annual Meeting and Industry Convention held in Orlando, Florida, USA on January 26-31, 2015 [DGreenblogger/twitter-live-aci-2015-part-3″ target=”_blank”>View the story “Twitter Live ACI 2015: Part 3” on Storify]
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Twitter Live at ACI 2015: Part 2
Twitter coverage of the American Cleaning Institute (ACI) Annual Meeting and Industry Convention held in Orlando, Florida, USA on January 26-31, 2015 [DGreenblogger/twitter-live-at-aci-2015-part-2″ target=”_blank”>View the story “Twitter Live at ACI 2015: Part 2” on Storify]
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Twitter Live at ACI 2015: Part 1
Twitter coverage of the American Cleaning Institute (ACI) Annual Meeting and Industry Convention held in Orlando, Florida, USA on January 26-31, 2015 [DGreenblogger/twitter-live-at-aci-2015″ target=”_blank”>View the story “Twitter Live at ACI 2015: Part 1” on Storify]
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