Green Chemicals Blog
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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…
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Teijin’s Bio-PET Fiber in Nissan
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Hello blog readers! Missed me? I am very sorry for being quiet lately as I had to recuperate coming out of a gallbladder surgery on top of a Thanksgiving week and this week’s exam. This month will also be my…
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Out of service
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The green blogger is currently out of service, temporarily…In the meantime, I am thinking of a lot of medical waste and medical materials that could be an opportunity for the biobased industry. Stay tune! LET’S CONNECT!
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Guayule rubber in wetsuit
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US-based Yulex sent me this press release this weekend regarding their project with sports/outdoors products manufacturer Patagonia on a guayule rubber-based wetsuit as an alternative for the use of neoprene materials. The blog first heard about guayule (pronounced why-YOU-lee) in…
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Biofuel News Roundup
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The blog decided to separate the biofuel news from the weekly roundup as there are too many of them and its piling up quickly. Current activities going on in the biofuel industry is the wait-and-watch mode for the much anticipated…
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Algae update: Solazyme et al.
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A lot of activities going on with Solazyme that includes its third quarter earnings report yesterday, the launch of its algal-based diesel to the consumer market, expansion of its production capacity in Brazil through the Bunge joint venture, and finally,…
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Bioplastic potential from bag bans
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This interactive map of various plastic bag bans (either already implemented, in the works, or did not go through…) is definitely worth sharing as I’ve mentioned via twitter, that these bag bans could lead to increase market share for compostable/biodegradable…