Green Chemicals Blog
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Mitsubishi Chemical expands Durabio output
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Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC) recently announced that it is expanding production of its isosorbide-based engineering plastic, DURABIO, at its Kurosaki Plant in Fukuoka, Japan. MCC has been producing its high-performance, high-transparency bio-based engineering plastic since August 2012 with annual production capacity of 5,000 tons. The company is planning to increase annual production capacity to 16,000…
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Scotland launches new industrial biotechnology center
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Funded by the Scottish Funding Council and supported by Scottish Enterprise and Highlands & Islands Enterprise, the new Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) has been launched, involving all 13 Scottish Higher Education Institutions that are active in biotechnology research and will be co-ordinated by the University of Strathclyde. IBIOC is said to be a key…
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Elevance picks URS for Natchez Biorefinery
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I am still working on the Elevance-Versalis press releases, and hoping to score some additional information from the companies. In the meantime, let me post this earlier news from Elevance about its Natchez plant activities. Elevance Renewable Sciences has selected URS Corporation to provide engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for its second world-scale biorefinery…
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Calendars and events
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This year seems to be more packed with bio-based chemicals/materials conferences and trade shows! The blog has already partnered with several conferences for the first half of 2014, and more on the way for the second half (still pending approval). I will be attending the following conferences for 1H 2014 under Tecnon OrbiChem’s sanction, so…
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The quest for sustainable rubber
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This has been in my draft for quite some time and I am glad to be able to post it after an interesting presentation that I heard from Patagonia and Yulex during the World Bio Markets USA conference last year in October. Since December last year, Patagonia has already been offering its Yulex R2 Front-Zip…
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Microvi bags $1.5m grant
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Microvi Biotechnologies has been awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to demonstrate at scale a novel technology for the treatment of 1,4 dioxane in water. Microvi’s MB-DX™ technology uses 1,4-Dioxane degrading microbes. 1,4-Dioxane is among the most widely detected organic contaminants in groundwater and drinking water, with…
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Pathways to novel chemicals – Inform
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There are a lot of focus on the commercialization of drop-in renewable chemicals, and sometimes novel chemicals such as glucaric acid, itaconic acid, levulinic acid, etc. are not being given its proper recognition. The American Oil Chemists Society (AOCS) has published an article (free access!) on its magazine, INFORM, about several of these novel chemicals…