Green Chemicals Blog
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Successful start-up for manure-to-fuel facility
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Iogen Corporation noted the successful opening and operation of Threemile Canyon Farms’ and Equilibriums’ only dairy manure renewable natural gas production facility located in Boardman, Oregon – one of the largest in the US. The facility uses the manure from 33,000 dairy cows to feed an anaerobic digester system followed by a biogas clean-up system…
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Air Protein Introduces the World’s First Air-Based Food
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Happy Thanksgiving to our US readers! I am sure many of you are eagerly waiting for a get-together (and eat!) with friends and family tonight. Speaking of food, some of you might already have heard about various plant-derived meat varieties that finally taste like real meat, and are now available in the consumer world such…
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Manus Bio starts fermentation facility
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Manus Bio’s first biotech manufacturing facility in Augusta, Georgia – a 44-acre fermentation and ingredient processing plant – is ready to start producing ingredients for flavors and fragrances, sweeteners, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and agricultural chemicals, as the company updated the former NutraSweet artificial sweetener plant, which had been idled since 2015. So far, the Company has…
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PBPC addresses misleading bioplastic statement from Greenpeace
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Recently, Greenpeace released a report on corporations and plastics pollution and specifically addressed the use of bioplastics. While some of their discussion had merit, the US organization Plant Based Products Council (PBPC) reported on its Accountability Blog that Greenpeace’s coverage of bioplastics fell short. PBPC took out its red pen to correct the record and…
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NEW OLEOCHEMICALS SERVICE FROM TECNON ORBICHEM
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Since 2013, Tecnon OrbiChem has been providing information on bio-based chemicals including oleochemicals in our monthly Bio-Materials Chemical Business Focus. We have both expanded and focussed our oleochemicals coverage to create a new Oleochemicals Including Surfactants, Biofuels and Glycerol-derived Intermediates Chemical Business Focus monthly report. The content and format of this new service is based…
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Avantium opens bio-glycols demo plant
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The bio-based glycols market is slowly coming back to life with the addition of new capacities from several companies I’ve been covering these past few years. Last week, Avantium inaugurated its plant-based MEG (monoethylene glycol) demonstration factory in Chemie Park Delfzijl, the Netherlands, using a chemo-catalytic technology the company named Ray Technology™. The demonstration plant,…
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Coca-Cola launches marine plastic bottle samples
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Coca-Cola announced its first-ever sample bottle made using recovered and recycled marine plastics. This sample is the first-ever plastic bottle made using marine litter that has been successfully recycled and reused in food and drink packaging. About 300 sample bottles have been produced using 25% recycled marine plastic retrieved from the Mediterranean Sea and beaches.…