Green Chemicals Blog
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Rivertop bags $26m funding from Cargill, First Green Partners
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Rivertop Renewables, a Montana-based producer of novel chemicals derived from natural plant sugars, has raised $26 million from Cargill, First Green Partners and existing investors. Rivertop will leverage these funds and an existing manufacturing relationship to produce market development quantities of salts of glucaric acid for select customers. In addition, the company will complete construction and…
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Clariant develops succinic acid-based pigments
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I am on my way to BASF’s Press conference in New Jersey this morning but let me post this interesting news from Clariant. This European specialty chemical company announced today that it has developed high-performance pigments for coatings, plastics and printing sectors based on bio-succinic acid supplied by Myriant. The Quinacridone pigments are produced at…
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Introducing: Liquid Light’s waste CO2-to-MEG tech
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This is another interview that is a bit late in posting. I have been covering several new technologies since late last year for Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-Materials newsletter, where these new technologies are now using feedstock such as methane, syngas and carbon dioxide/carbon monoxide to produce various chemical intermediates. Are these bio-based feedstock? They could be…
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Lesaffre launches new business unit
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France-based fermentation products producer, Lesaffre, has created a new business unit called Leaf (Lesaffre Advanced Fermentation) Technologies, which will focus on the worldwide sales and market development of value-added fermentation solutions for fuel ethanol and bio-based chemical producers. The company will use its expertise in the field of genetics, fermentation, yeast and yeast derivatives production.…
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Emery Oleochemicals strengthens specialty chems biz
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This post has been way overdue (as other recent interviews that I had) as I have to write them up first for Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-Materials newsletter. I met some of the management (as well as CEO Dr. Kongkrapan Intarajang) of Emery Oleochemicals at last month’s Palm and Lauric Oils conference in Malaysia and I was…
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BASF and Espaço ECO® join Bonsucro
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This press release is in Brazilian Portuguese so my apologies if Google translate is not that accurate. According to the announcement, BASF Crop Protection in Brazil and Espaço ECO® Foundation (FEE®) established by BASF, have became members of Bonsucro – the international nonprofit certification firm that aims to reduce the environmental and social impacts in…
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Amyris strengthens chemical collaborative partnerships
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Amyris is entering a collaborative research and development agreement with BASF where Amyris will use its strain engineering technology to develop a microorganism capable of producing a target molecule by BASF. The companies expect to further collaborate on a strain development program and consider other joint research and development opportunities based on the success of…