Green Chemicals Blog
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Weekly News Roundup
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I have so many updates to post but I’ll start with our Weekly News Roundup which was supposed to have come out yesterday but I got distracted with my planned participation at the Plant-based Bio-Industrial Oils (PBIO) conference to be…
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BNDES invests $294m in GraalBio
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This is all over the news today as Brazilian development bank Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico e Social (BNDES) announced yesterday another hundred million dollars loan approval this time with Brazilian cellulosic biomass technology developer GraalBio following another announcement last…
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2013 New Biofuels Reports
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Two new reports just came out for this year covering biofuels. This first one about the sustainability challenge concerning global biofuels is from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN). FAO released a report that addresses…
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More green funding comes in
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I think this is a good sign that various governments, banks and investors are putting in more cash and loans this month for biofuel /renewable chemical activities (see earlier post on the funding prospects for 2013). This week, Solazyme’s joint…
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Bio-based adhesives are hot!
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Source: Henkel Germany-based consumer products company Henkel announced this week that it has partnered with US-based DaniMer Scientific to develop bio-based hotmelt adhesives for consumer packaging. The goal for the partnership is to market a technology platform that includes a…
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Sweet future of cellulosic sugar
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UPDATE 1/17/13: You can get the latest press release about the Sweetwater and Front Range Energy deal here. I’ve also been remiss in forgetting to mention major cellulosic ethanol players and enzymes producers including DuPont, POET-DSM, Novozymes, Abengoa, BP Biofuels,…
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Biofuel news roundup
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It seems all my anti-flu precautions did not work, unfortunately, as I am now a mass of sneezing, sniffling, virus-laden human being. Hopefully, this will pass very soon. Here are several announcements in the biofuel industry and there seems to…