Green Chemicals Blog
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More green awards, rewards
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My apologies for the sparse posts, I am trying to finish my oleochemical presentation for the Plant Bio-Industrial Oils Workshop, which is due this Friday. In the meantime, I promise to certain somebody to post some of these news that…
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Solazyme, Mitsui oleochemical deal
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Algal oil producer Solazyme announced yesterday that it has entered a $20m multi-year deal with Japan-based Mitsui & Co. Ltd. to jointly develop a suite of triglyceride oils for use in the oleochemical industry. The deal includes further development of…
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INVISTA, Arzeda in bio-butadiene process
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Thanks to Lycra producer INVISTA for sending to me this news today about its collaboration with Seattle-based biotechnology company Arzeda. INVISTA and Arzeda are developing technology platforms for a bio-derived processes that will combine Arzeda’s synthetic biology and enzyme design…
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Biofuel battle heats up (more)
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So I was watching the Superbowl game on Sunday (ok I admit I am more into commercials than the game itself since my Giants team was not involved), when I saw the Dodge Ram truck commercial “God Made a Farmer”…
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Weekly News Roundup
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Here are last week’s news roundup. I will post a separate one regarding Amyris’ recent announcement of its Biofene shipment milestone. Novozymes buys Iogen enzymes biz Enzymes producer Novozymes has acquired Iogen Bio-Products, the industrial enzymes business of Ottawa-based Iogen…
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Formic acid as eco-friendly deicing agent
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While I’m still working on the blog’s weekly news roundup, here is an interesting video from BASF about the use of formic acid (in the form of potassium formate – a biodegradable salt of formic acid) as a deicing agent….
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Biofuel News Roundup
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Sorry for the delayed news roundup. I have been working hard negotiating with a couple of consulting firms for possible employment opportunities. I’m keeping my fingers crossed! In the biofuels and energy market, the big news last week was the…