Green Chemicals Blog
-
NatureWorks expands PLA capacity
.
Polylactic acid (PLA)-based bioplastic producer NatureWorks announced yesterday that it will increase production of its Ingeo biopolymer capacity at Blair, Nebraska, US, from 140,000 tonnes/year to 150,000 tonnes/year — a 7% increase — because of a proprietary production equipment developed by…
-
Soy oil voted best coatings feedstock
.
This is a very interesting analysis and bought me back to my days as “editor of oils, fats and waxes” at Chemical Market Reporter =). According to SpecialChem’s community insight on various plant-based industrial oils used for coatings application, soybean…
-
Codexis cuts R&D ties with Shell
.
Speaking of enzymes again, I have been following the biofuel collaboration between Codexis and Shell especially this year when Shell dropped cellulosic ethanol developer Iogen as its research partner in June. Codexis has been collaborating with the Shell-Iogen deal on…
-
Novozymes expands bio-based activities
.
Danish enzymes producer Novozymes is a very busy company these days both in the areas of renewable chemicals and biofuels. The blog already mentioned Novozymes’ collaboration with Cargill and BASF on sugar-based acrylic acid. The company also announced last month…
-
Elevance withdraws IPO
.
Sorry about the new layout folks. I’ve been getting input from readers on how to improve the blog and one thing that is apparently missing is the date on each post! Unfortunately, I can’t put the dates on the old…
-
Bio-acrylic acid on the way
.
So…I just found out yesterday that my goodbye post on my old blog has been taken down by ICIS. I am not sure how this action is beneficial to them except that it looked really mean-spirited to me but I…
-
INVISTA seeks more bio-based nylon feedstock
.
Welcome to the new green chemicals blog’s first post! My interview with INVISTA happened after the company announced its partnership with LanzaTech to develop bio-based butadiene as feedstock for their proprietary adiponitrile (ADN) production technology. ADN is an intermediate chemical…