Green Chemicals Blog
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Global bioplastics update at EBC24
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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
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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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Sustainea picks its Bio-MEG site
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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
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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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PLA Industry Buzz
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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?
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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
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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…