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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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Genomatica enters bio-polyamides market
So far, Genomatica’s business model seems to be doing pretty well as the company tries to stay out of burning cash through manufacturing, letting its partners from the chemical industry do the commercial production and marketing, and Genomatica instead focuses…
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Lesaffre acquires Butalco
There were several bio-butanol news last month and these were all reported at Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-Materials newsletter. In the meantime, here was one from Lesaffre, a France-based manufacturer of yeast and other fermentation products. The company said it has acquired…
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Solazyme, AkzoNobel expand surfactant partnership
Algal oils producer, Solazyme, has expanded its algal oil supply agreement with specialty chemicals company, AkzoNobel, with a new five-year supply of up to 10,000 tons/year of Solazyme’s Tailored™ algal oil for surfactant production pending successful joint product development. The…
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M&G forms JV with Anhui Guozhen
Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-Materials Issue 11 newsletter is now done and out, and we have some interesting news that came from China. In the meantime, there were also several recent announcements that came out and I will post some of them…
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Meredian prepares for potential IPO
While Metabolix seems to be quiet these days (and people are still waiting for any production updates from the company…), Meredian on the other hand, has been churning out several news recently, the latest one is its merger with sister…
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P2 Science, Bedoukian Research in collaboration
P2 Science, Inc., a renewable chemical company, and Bedoukian Research, Inc., a flavor and fragrance (F&F) ingredient company have entered into an agreement for the development, manufacturing and marketing of F&F ingredients. The companies are currently working on products with an existing market demand and…
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DEINOVE optimizes Deinococcus strains
DEINOVE, a France-based cleantech company that designs and develops a new generation of industrial processes based on Deinococcus bacteria, has developed strains with especially high performance cellulolytic properties. DEINOVE has been able to demonstrate that their engineered Deinococcus has the…
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Stora Enso acquires cellulosic sugar developer Virdia
I know this is a late news but still worthwhile reporting. Stora Enso, a Finnish pulp, paper and packaging company, has acquired 100% of the shares of the US-based cellulosic sugar developer, Virdia, for $33 million (EUR 24 million) with…
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Why Tetra Pak chooses renewables?
Tetra Pak is making a case on why the company is now using renewable-based materials in some of its packaging and has recently released a new white paper examining the use of materials in packaging that can be regrown or replenished…
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Beverage makers take out BVO in soft drinks
Which would you like on your soft drinks: brominated vegetable oil (BVO), sucrose acetate isobutyrate, or glycerol ester of wood rosin? According to this article from the United Soybean Board (USB), beverage producers including Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, have announced the removal…
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