Green Chemicals Blog
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Zeachem looks at bio-propanol
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Look at what I found! I have always been asking Zeachem what specific C3 chemicals they are looking into and now I have my (sort-of) answers from this slide presentation that Zeachem’s chief commercial officer Bob Walsh recently presented at…
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Who will be the greener US president?
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[polldaddy poll=6625027] Even if there are a lot of readers of the blog that live outside the US, I am assuming that there are still many of you who are interested on who will be the next US president in…
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Weekly News Roundup
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My apologies for the delay in this post. I had to do several phone calls throughout the day today and yesterday. My twittering and Facebook addiction also got the best of me lately ;-). Here are this week’s news roundup:…
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Strong bioplastic growth led by bio-PET
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Another delayed post is this press release last week from the industry trade group, European Bioplastics, on their annual report on the global bioplastic capacity/production status and five-year growth projections. The report, which is published in cooperation with the Institute…
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Green Biologics’ biobutanol now available
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I am still working on the weekly news roundup but in the meantime, the blog recently had a very interesting conversation with Green Biologics‘ vice president of business development, Tim Staub, on the company’s commercialization of its bio-based n-butanol. It…
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LanzaTech in CO2-to-acetic acid
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Miss me? I miss blogging too, and for those who recently contacted me via email, my apologies for the delayed response. A lot of personal things going on but I am trying to get back into the green groove. We…
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Global Bioenergies in bio-propylene
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France-based Global Bioenergies (GBE) announced this week that it was able to directly convert glucose to propylene using the same artificial metabolic pathway that the company uses to produce its bio-isobutene. According to the company, artificial pathway means: “The GBE…