Green Chemicals Blog
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Arkema acquires castor oil stake
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While the blog is waiting for some answers from Versalis regarding their recent bio-butadiene joint venture announcement with Genomatica, let me post this news from France-based specialty chemical firm Arkema about its JV with castor oil and derivatives producer Jayant…
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Evonik’s bio-polyamides game
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Evonik wants to give some insight into their VESTAMID® Terra polyamide applications and so the company is currently holding a riddle contest. Evonik’s Bigfoot named ECO is looking for castor bean plant Evonik said it will have a series of…
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Myriant partners with BCD Chemie
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Bio-succinic acid producer Myriant announced another partnership following its recent deal with Turkish chemical distributor Bayegan Group. Myriant said it has signed a distribution deal with Hamburg, Germany-based BCD Chemie to market and distribute Myriant’s bio-succinic acid and Myrifilm solvent in…
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Gevo gets 2nd demo unit from SHR
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Texas-based Arabian American Development Co. (ARSD) recently announced a new contract with Gevo to extend its toll processing services of the hydrocarbon processing demonstration plant at its South Hampton Resources (SHR) facility in Silsbee, Texas, and to construct a second…
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Weekly News Roundup
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Thank goodness this week’s news roundup are manageable at least. Here are some of the interesting announcements that caught the blog’s recent attention: P&G’s zero manufacturing waste Procter & Gamble announced that 45 of their facilities have now achieved zero…
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Booming University green chems research
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The blog has been seeing a lot of R&D news from various universities on how to improve green chemistry processing and these are definitely worthwhile checking out. Here’s one from the University of Florida (UF) about their research in turning…
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Cereplast seeks $50m opportunity in Italy plastic bag ban
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Bioplastic producer Cereplast put out this news yesterday about an Italian decree enforcing the legislation of a plastic bag ban effective May 27, 2013. Cereplast noted that the decree — published on March 18 in Italy’s Official Gazette — stated…