Green Chemicals Blog
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Plaxica sells technology portfolio
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Hello blog readers! After 2 months of hiatus (and recovering from health problems), I am hoping to slowly get back to writing and let me start with this news from UK-based industrial biotechnology company, Plaxica, which recently announced the sale of its two technology business, its Xylex® cellulosic sugar technology and Versalac® lactic acid process…
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17 Reasons to Attend #BIOWC17
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2017 marks the 10th anniversary of a seminal EPA study, Bioengineering for Pollution Prevention, which examined industrial biotechnology’s potential for sustainable production of biofuels, renewable chemicals and materials. BIO’s new analysis on a white paper launched ahead of the BIO World Congress examines the ways the biotech industry has achieved the potential over the past…
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Commercialisation Updates On Bio-Based Building Blocks
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With the many shifts in economic and political trends over the last year, many bio-based investments are focusing on the core of the Bioeconomy: bio-based building blocks and platform chemicals. nova-Institute’s preliminary market study “Bio-based Building Blocks and Polymers – Global Capacities and Trends 2016–2021”, reports on seventeen building blocks with an estimated total…
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GCB On Holiday until September but see you at #BIOWC17
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Dear blog readers, After 10 years of constant continued coverage of the renewable chemicals market, the blog – I might add for the first time – will be muted for the entire July and August as I try to recover from several health issues and hopefully regain my normal pace by September. The blog’s archives…
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NatureWorks launches Performance Chemicals Division
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While NatureWorks has already been working on this new business model of launching lactides-based performance chemicals a year back, the company finally made it official with a new division and product line called Vercet™, which aims to supply lactides, polyols, binder resins and chemical intermediates to companies that manufacture innovative coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers…
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Protected: Weekly News Roundup: 20 June 2017
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