Green Chemicals Blog
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Solazyme plant capacity online
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Solazyme just published this You Tube video of their new 128,000-liter fermentation operation in Peoria, Illinois. The company said its algae-based oils production capacity is now online and based on my previous reports about the facility, the plant is expected…
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Weekly News Roundup
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Second exam coming up next week! My other half is looking at me with evil eye as I type this post. By the way, thanks for the well-wishes on the blog’s first monthsary (or is it monthsiversary?? — these made-up…
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One month blog milestone
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It has been a month since the new Green Chemicals blog has been launched and I just wanted to say thank you to all those who have continuously followed the green blogger as well as those who have just checked…
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Bio-based specialty chems thrive
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My last article from ICIS this year was just published as part of the SOCMA Leadership 2012 supplement. I was assigned to write an article on how specialty chemicals companies such as Allylix, Rivertop Renewables, and Blue Marble Biomaterials (BMB)…
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Coca-Cola picks 2nd bio-EG supplier
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Happy October! It feels like it has been awhile since I last posted. School is creating chaos on my grand blogging plans but the blogger will persist. Finally, Coca-Cola announced it’s long-awaited bio-based monoethylene glycol (bio-MEG) plans for its polyethylene…
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BioFuel Energy idles ethanol plant
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Yields shrink due to drought And while Gevo plans to switch to producing ethanol from bio-isobutanol (check my post before this one), Colorado-based BioFuel Energy, meanwhile, has decided to idle its Fairmont, Minnesota, ethanol facility until further notice because of…
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Gevo biobutanol supply hits a snag
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While I’m looking at my emails, I saw Gevo’s announcement this week on its Luverne, Minnesota, facility update stating that the company will cut back its isobutanol production and instead will produce more ethanol. The company started its 18m gal/year…