Green Chemicals Blog
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Stora Enso invests in Finnish biorefinery
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Finnish pulp and paper company Stora Enso is investing EUR 32m to build a world-class biorefinery at Sunila Mill in Finland containing lignin extraction plant and dryer, lignin dust burners in the lime kilns and a packing line. The company…
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Gevo supplies US Coast Guard with bio-isobutanol
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Gevo has begun supplying the U.S. Coast Guard R&D Center with initial quantities of finished 16.1% renewable isobutanol-blended gasoline for engine testing. The U.S. Coast Guard R&D Center is using the Gevo-blended fuel as part of a 12-month, long-term operational study…
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Bayer to commercialize CO2-based polyols
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It is almost the end of July and I just want to remind those who are interested in subscribing to our new Bio-Materials & Intermediates reports that you have until next week Wednesday (July 31) to avail of Tecnon OrbiChem’s special…
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Solegear Bioplastics get Canada support
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Solegear Bioplastics has entered into a significant Contribution Agreement with the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP). Solegear seeks to develop bioplastic technologies that leverage industrial waste sources to address durability requirements and mitigate toxic flame…
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BioAmber bags $25m loan
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BioAmber has closed on a $25 million, three-year term loan with Hercules Capital. The $25 million debt facility is in addition to the $71.9 million of net proceeds that BioAmber received in connection with its initial public offering in May 2013. The debt financing will help ensure the…
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Biofuel News Roundup
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I have not been posting most of the recent biofuel news out there as the green blog has been focusing more on renewable chemicals lately. This results in so many news that piled up that the blog will just list…
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GCB News Roundup
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The green blogger is on a mini-vacation and will be back on Thursday, July25. In the meantime, let me post this news roundup as it has been a long since my last weekly news roundup post. I am trying to…