Green Chemicals Blog
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ACC released guidance for mass balance certification standards
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The American Chemistry Council’s Plastics Division announced a set of principles for mass balance certification standards that will trace and help increase plastics recycling and support markets for the outputs from advanced plastics recycling. A mass balance approach measures the…
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Maine to implement Renewable Products Tax Credit
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On March 18, 2020, the governor of Maine signed a legislation that promotes the production of renewable products in the state of Maine. This legislation, which offers an 8 cents per pound tax credit for the production of renewable chemicals…
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Confidential Survey: COVID-19 Business Impact
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Please take five minutes to answer eight questions that will allow us to ascertain basic economic impact data that I will share with all respondents. The responses will be kept strictly confidential and neither you or your company will be…
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Ginkgo commits $25M for COVID-19 projects
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Synthetic biology company Ginkgo Bioworks announced its $25 million commitment for free access to its platform in the development of a long-term solution to the COVID-19 crisis. Companies building treatments that can stop COVID-19 can now avail of Ginkgo’s services:…
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Commercialisation updates on bio-based building blocks
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The exit of key players, restructuring of production capacities worldwide, a shrinking pool of new start-up companies but also burgeoning discovery and increasing production of new building blocks Tecnon OrbiChem and the nova-Institute release their latest “Commercialisation updates on bio-based building…
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Isothane in CO2-based polyols development
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I haven’t seen any formal press release from either Econic Technologies or Isothane Limited but according to Econic, the companies are working on the application of Econic’s CO2-based polyols in spray foam insulation (see video below). UK-based Isothane Ltd. is…
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VIDEO: Biodegradable shoe Super Bowl Ad
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I forgot to post this after seeing it during one of the Super Bowl commercials. According to Saucony (pronounced sock-a-knee), the company aims to have no plastics, no plastic derivatives and not even bio-plastics in its biodegradable sneakers. The company…