Green Chemicals Blog
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Veramaris’s construction of algal-based omega-3 fatty acids facility starts
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I find the animal nutrition, aquaculture and animal feed markets all very interesting areas of growth for renewable chemicals especially for organic acids. DSM and Evonik’s new joint venture, Veramaris V.O.F., aims to produce omega-3 fatty acids from natural marine algae for animal nutrition. DSM and Evonik announced their intention to start this joint venture in…
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Genomatica, Aquafil in bio-nylon collaboration
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Genomatica and Italy-based polyamide producer Aquafil announced yesterday their collaboration in the development of sugar-based caprolactam, a key raw material in the production of polyamide 6, using Genomatica’s bioprocess GENO CPL. According to the press release, caprolactam has a worldwide market of over 5m tons/year. Of course, I will report more about the current market…
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European plastics industry sets sustainable targets
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The trade organization, PlasticsEurope recently published its 2030 Voluntary Commitment, which contains a set of ambitious targets and initiatives by the European plastics industry towards a more sustainable economic solution. This commitment focuses on (1) increasing re-use and recycling, (2) preventing plastics leakage into the environment, and (3) accelerating resource efficiency. For the recycling targets,…
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Protected: Weekly News Roundup: 15 January 2018
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AkzoNobel opens Imagine Chemistry 2018 challenge
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AkzoNobel’s Imagine Chemistry challenge is now open as an opportunity for startup and scale-up firms and researchers to solve real industry challenges and create sustainable business opportunities in chemistry. The overall winners will be awarded joint development agreements with AkzoNobel to help bring their ideas to market. The 2018 edition calls for solutions within the…
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2018 Tecnon OrbiChem Chemical Planner
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Tecnon OrbiChem’s year planner is now available. If you would like to receive this planner please click on the button below. The year planner provides information on: Key industry events World Holidays Chemical Conversion Factors Energy Factors Electricity Production Costs Metric versus US Measures Cash Production Cost of Ethylene Energy Equivalents Please send me the 2018 Year…