Green Chemicals Blog
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Novvi starts renewable base oil plant
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Novvi LLC and Chevron both announced the successful start-up of its Deer Park, TX plant, where it is manufacturing and marketing 100% renewable base oils for the lubricants industry, and 100% renewable process oils for polymer, adhesives, and personal care…
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PNNL offers Special Exploratory License Agreement
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From time to time, I covered several R&D news coming from the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). One of these was the partnership between LanzaTech and PNNL on their ethanol-to-fuel technology R&D, which I believed, started…
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VIDEO: Green Chlor-Alkali Plant
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I am not that familiar with the chlor-alkali industry aside from the information that it uses electrochemical processing which is getting to be popular as well in its potential to produce renewable carbon-based chemicals (example is Avantium’s Volta technology). Electrochemical…
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Survey: Americans Embrace Sustainability Despite COVID-19 Upheaval
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A new survey from Genomatica shows that sustainability has moved from a fringe preference into a core imperative across American life even during the COVID-19 pandemic. Genomatica conducted this research using an online survey prepared by Method Research and distributed…
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Dutch SER advises biomass use for chems production
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The Dutch Social Economic Council (SER) published this month its report: “Biomass in Balance, a sustainability framework for the high value application of bio-feedstocks” (in Dutch) which advises the Dutch government about biomass sustainability and giving a recommendation that biomass…
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Morgan Stanley Joins Leadership of Global Carbon Accounting Partnership
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I have to admit that I have limited familiarity with the investment and financial markets (and how they work) but it is interesting to observe the growing trend of investment firms and banks tying their long-term business strategies with environment-friendly…
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Neste on post COVID-19 and its role in the circular bioeconomy
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Here’s a small interview article with Neste’s Mercedes Alonso, Executive VP – Renewable Polymers and Chemicals, under the World Bioeconomy Forum’s (WCBEF) Five Minutes With….series. The Green Chemicals Blog is a media partner of the WCBEF virtual event which will…