Green Chemicals Blog
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Dutch biomass sugar partnership formed
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More cellulosic sugar partnerships are taking place, and this one is in Europe. Avantium announced a partnership with AkzoNobel, Chemport Europe, RWE and Staatsbosbeheer for the development of a reference biorefinery plant at the Chemie Park Delfzijl, which will be based on a new technology that has been developed by Avantium. This Zambezi process aims…
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Increase on Asian production capacities for bio-based chemicals, building blocks and polymers
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I usually shy away from posting market studies and reports on bio-based chemicals because a) there are a lot of inflated figures being reported in the big world wide web; and b) it is frowned upon since I’m working for a consulting firm myself. However, nova Institute is a well-established, well-known expert in reporting about biopolymers…
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Green Biologics Acquires GreenFlame™ Brand, partners with Kroger
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Straight from Green Biologics’ press release….analysis on this development will be available later this month for Tecnon OrbiChem’s Biomaterials newsletter subscribers. Green Biologics, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Green Biologics Ltd., a U.K. industrial biotechnology and renewable chemicals company, has acquired the GreenFlame™ brand and the associated intellectual property. GreenFlame™ is a USDA BioPreferred® certified, natural,…
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Toray, Mitsui in cellulosic sugar JV in Thailand
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So here’s another news that I reported last month on Tecnon OrbiChem’s Biomaterials newsletter, and the trend I’ve been noticing for the past two years or so is really the increased focused on waste-based feedstock and commercialization of chemicals/materials out of those feedstock. Toray Industries announced last month that it has formed a joint venture company…
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Mazda uses isosorbide-based engineering plastics
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We just published our first Biomaterials newsletter for the year and it’s a whopping 60 pages (yikes!). For our Tecnon OrbiChem subscribers, I hope you have the entire February to scan through the newsletter. One of the news we included is Mitsubishi Chemical’s announcement of the incorporation of its Durabio isosorbide-based engineering plastics on the…
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VIDEO: Novamont introduces bio-BDO
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Last year, Novamont started the world’s first commercial bio-1,4 butanediol (BDO) production in the world. Here’s a video briefly explaining in simple terms what BDO is about and how bio-BDO is processed. LET’S CONNECT!
