Green Chemicals Blog
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More bio-butadiene partnerships
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Two exciting news just came out this week regarding bio-butadiene. Braskem and Genomatica announced this morning their joint development agreement on a commercial process technology to make bio-based butadiene from renewable feedstock. The companies did not say what kind of…
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Wilmar, Unilever pledges sustainable palm oil policies
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The palm oil industry is definitely feeling the sustainability pinch from worldwide environmental groups, investors and even from large buyers such as multinational food companies. Green Century Capital Management, a coalition of institutional investors from the US and Europe representing…
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INVISTA, CPI on gas fermentation-based chems
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INVISTA and The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) announced a collaboration for the development of new technologies to enable gas-fermentation-based processes for the production of industrial chemicals. The collaboration will leverage INVISTA’s capabilities in biotechnology and catalysis, and knowledge of the…
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DSM demonstrates wheat straw-based ethanol production
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DSM and DONG Energy Denmark have demonstrated the combined fermentation of C6 and C5 sugars from wheat straw on a 270,000 liter industrial scale with a similar yield as obtained on a 1 liter laboratory scale using DSM’s advanced yeast. The…
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Ecochem 2013: Day 1
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Day 1 Twitter Coverage of Ecochem conference held in Basel, Switzerland, on November 19-21, 2013
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Ecochem 2013: Day 2
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Day 2 Twitter Coverage of Ecochem conference held in Basel, Switzerland, on November 19-21, 2013
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Ecochem 2013: Day 3
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Day 3 Twitter Coverage of Ecochem conference held in Basel, Switzerland, on November 19-21, 2013