Green Chemicals Blog
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Avantium’s bio-glycols in polyesters and deicers
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Avantium announced this week that it has completed the application validation for its plant-based glycols plantMEG™ (monoethylene glycol) and plantMPG™ (monopropylene glycol) produced in Avantium’s Ray Technology™ demo plant in Delfzijl, the Netherlands. Key applications include polymerisation to PEF and…
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AFYREN and DMC in the news
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As the blog continues to monitor the commercialization of other niche or novel bio-based building blocks and molecules in the market, here are two interesting news that came my way. AFYREN recently announced that it has secured a long-term agreement…
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BASF and the bubbling bio-surfactants market
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Happy Monday morning! There are a couple of company announcements that I’ve heard on the bio-surfactants market but we’ll focus on this recent announcement from BASF who is very familiar with this market given its broad range of oleochemical-based surfactant…
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Forestry Products Market Update
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Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-Materials newsletter recently published an update from major pine chemicals producers Kraton and Ingevity, as well as covering a company announcement from Fintoil. You can now access this information for free on this link below: Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-Materials…
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Celebrating women CEOs in the renewable chemicals market
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I’m sorry I missed posting on International Women’s Day as I was working on the Bio-Materials newsletter deadline. However, I always say better late than never so here is a list of women CEOs blazing trails in the (renewable) chemicals…
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Circa Group completes IPO
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I know the bio-based chemicals industry has been through a rough patch during the past couple of years when it comes to public financing for start-ups so we are cautiously optimistic about companies that are now trading through various stock…
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Avantium in FDCA deal; releases 2030 Sustainability Plan
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Avantium announced on February 9 that its subsidiary, Avantium Renewable Polymers, signed a patent license agreement with Eastman Chemical Company for the right to operate under Eastman’s FDCA-related patent portfolio. Now the press release just really contains three paragraphs but…