Green Chemicals Blog
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Biobased ECH growing rapidly
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My first school exam is coming up so I have to eased down my social media activities a bit (and here I thought being unemployed will give me more time to nap…). According to this report from energy publisher SBI…
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Advanced Biofuels Capacity update
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I am still in the “capacity news” mode so I’ll post this press release from BIO last month covering their recent Roundtable discussion regarding capacity progress from several advanced biofuels companies. BIO and its US biofuels members have been fighting…
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Green blog capacity news
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Here are some of the recent capacity updates that the blog came across in the past week. We will start with LS9 which announced this week the successful start-up of its fatty alcohol production in the company’s 135,000 liter-scale demonstration…
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Flashback from 2005
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I was revising my profile on some of my social media platforms when I came across this presentation on Slide Share that I made in 2005 for the International Castor Oil Association (ICOA). In my presentation are some of my…
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European Bioplastic publishes guidelines
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This is good news for marketers of bioplastic products who want to ease consumer confusion on what a bioplastic means. The trade group European Bioplastics has just launched its “Environmental Communications Guide for Bioplastics” that was developed by an international…
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Weekly News Roundup
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I’m bringing back the weekly news roundup and hopefully will be able to maintain this. These are some of the news that accumulated in my draft box for 2-3 weeks now so my apologies… Teijin’s polyester recycling in China Teijin…
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Bioplastics in baseball games
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The blog first mentioned BASF’s partnership with US major league baseball team Seattle Mariners in April this year, where fans were able to receive compost kit compliments of BASF, Ecosafe (the maker of compostable bags that uses BASF’s Ecovio biodegradable…