Green Chemicals Blog
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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…
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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…
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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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DuPont breaks ground on Iowa biorefinery
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Last week, DuPont has made a statement on its commitment to cellulosic ethanol as the company broke ground on its planned 30m gal/year biorefinery in Nevada, Iowa. The $200m cellulosic ethanol plant is expected to be completed in mid-2014, and…