Green Chemicals Blog

  • Happy Green Holidays!

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    Wishing everybody a very happy holiday and a prosperous new year ahead! The green blog is back in business as school is finally over!! I passed!! Hurrah! Unfortunately it has been two weeks since I’ve checked the green chemistry world…

  • Finals week

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    This is my last semester at school and unfortunately, I do have to concentrate these next several days as I do not want to repeat this class EVER. AGAIN. Lights off for the blog for now as the green blogger…

  • Green milestones: LanzaTech, Global Bioenergies

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    Two separate news came out this week announcing their project milestones, one about butadiene from Global Bioenergies, and the other about ethanol from LanzaTech Incidentally, these two also have a partnership with each other on developing bio-based isobutene but that’s…

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    Survey says: China likes biobased products

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    This is a very interesting survey released by DuPont this week about urban Chinese consumers increasingly favoring products they perceived offering environmental benefits. According to DuPont, China is now a ripe market for biobased product growth given their rising purchasing…

  • New sites to see

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    The green blog just wanted to give a shout out of welcome to these new sites and hopefully readers will check them out as well: SpecialChem4Bio SpecialChem’s new online platform dedicated to bio-based chemicals and materials. The website is said…

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    Polyols from bio-PDO and succinic acid

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    This year seems to be a good year for expanding DuPont Tate & Lyle’s (DTL) bio-based propanediol (PDO) applications. This week, the company announced that its Susterra bio-based PDO combined with bio-succinic acid supplied by Myriant, are now being used…

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    Purac promotes PLA recyclability

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    The blog is in a video mode this week so here’s another one from lactic acid producer Purac showing how easy it is to recycle PLA (polylactic acid) plastic through a do-it-yourself, interactive machine created by the Perpetual Plastic Project…


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