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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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Solazyme’s algal oils in lubricants
Solazyme announced its entry into the textile lubricants market through a commercial supply agreement with Goulston Technologies Inc., a global producer of high-performance fiber lubricants. Goulston expects to commercialize a new class of sustainable textile lubricant products using Solazyme’s renewable…
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Cereplast bags bioplastic sales in India
Cereplast has received a $1.4m purchase order for Cereplast Biopropylene® 101 from Dugar Eximark Private Limited (Dugar Eximar), a customer based in Hyderabad, India. Cereplast is selling the material from existing inventory, which will ship primarily from Europe over the…
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Bioplastics get attention at #K2013
There are so many news that are coming out this week but let me first post this one, which has been stewing in my draft box for weeks. There seems to be a lot of bioplastic launch (or products related…
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Butamax begins bio-butanol retrofit in Minnesota
Bio-butanol technology company Butamax™ Advanced Biofuels LLC and ethanol producer Highwater Ethanol LLC have begun to retrofit Highwater’s ethanol plant in Lamberton, Minnesota for the production of bio-butanol. Butamax’s technology package will include the installation of novel corn oil separation technology. Butamax…
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BioAmber completes yeast-based succinic acid milestone with Cargill
BioAmber made its final payment to Cargill for achieving the final milestone in their development agreement, under which BioAmber has exclusively licensed the Cargill yeast technology for succinic acid production. Completion of this milestone signals that the succinic acid producing…
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INVISTA, Ingenza on industrial biotech collaboration
INVISTA is collaborating with UK-based industrial biotechnology firm Ingenza for the development of new technologies to enable bio-derived processes for the production of industrial chemicals. The collaboration will leverage INVISTA’s capabilities in biotechnology and catalysis, and knowledge of the chemicals industry,…
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Rennovia produces 100% bio-based nylon
The quest to produce a 100% bio-based nylon 6,6 polymer has now come to fruition as Rennovia announced that it has produced and shipped samples of their RENNLON™100% bio-based nylon 6,6 polymer, believed to be the first produced worldwide. The…
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EPA to restricts perfluorinated chemicals imports
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing a rule that will restrict imports of perfluorinated chemicals that could be used in carpets. The regulation will require companies to report to EPA all new uses, including in domestic and imported…
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Renewable chems tax credit waiting for Congress
US producers of renewable chemicals are hopeful that a recently introduced bill called “Qualifying Renewable Chemical Production Tax Credit Act of 2013” (H.R. 3084) sponsored by House Representatives Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), Steve Stockman (R-Texas), Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa), Linda Sanchez (D-Calif)…
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Proterro’s sugar ready for pilot scale
Updated 10/2/2013: Proterro emailed the blog for several corrections. Sugar developer Proterro is in the process of commissioning a pilot plant in Florida, and has also already completed a preliminary design, layout and associated cost estimate for a demonstration-scale plant….
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