Green Chemicals Blog
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Verdezyne seeks Asian market for bio-adipic acid
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My apologies for posting this a bit late but it is an interesting development from Verdezyne as the California-based bio-adipic acid developer announced its collaboration with Malaysia’s biotechnology investment agency, Malaysian Biotechnology Corporation (BiotechCorp), to assess Malaysia as the location…
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Amyris, Total Successful Demo Flight
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Amyris and Total announced today a successful demonstration flight at the Paris Air Show using renewable fuel produced via engineered microorganisms that convert plant sugars into Amyris’ Biofene®. The companies expect the fuel to be commercially available as early as…
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LanzaTech, Siemens on CO2-based ethanol production
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Technology firm Siemens and its subsidiary Siemens Metals Technologies announced a partnership with LanzaTech for a 10-year collaboration to develop and market integrated solutions for the steel industry utilizing LanzaTech’s fermentation technology for converting waste gases from iron and steel…
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CSM changes name to Corbion, focuses on biochems
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CSM, the parent company of lactic acid producer Purac, announced yesterday its new growth strategy for 2013-2016 starting with a new company name called Corbion. The new name and strategy marks the company’s transformation from a bakery ingredients supplier to…
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Calysta Energy, NatureWorks in methane feedstock partnership
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As I’ve tweeted yesterday, there are so many press releases coming out this week because of ongoing two big conferences — BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and the ACS Green Chemistry & Engineering conference. Myriant already announced their on-spec…
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UPM, Ashland collaborates on UPM Biofibrils technology
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UPM and Ashland Inc. have entered into a cooperative agreement to develop and commercialize products containing UPM’s Biofibrils technology — micro and nanofibrillated cellulose products that can be used for shaping materials and giving them new characteristics. In the biofibrils collaboration…
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ACS Video: Chemical Feedstock in the 21st Century
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While I’m working on writing more posts from yesterday’s several press announcements, here is a recently recorded live stream video from the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute (ACSGCI) conference, which is currently being held this week in Maryland, USA….