Green Chemicals Blog
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Braskem Green PE 101
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I think I’ve mentioned before that I like posting videos on the blog. Here is another one from Braskem explaining the production and sustainability of its I’m Green sugarcane-based polyethylene plastic. The company has been heavily promoting the bio-based plastic in the US despite challenges of low crude oil (hence low petro plastics) prices. Braskem…
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DOE seeks biomass supply feedback
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) seeks feedback from industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and other stakeholders on issues related to mobilizing biomass resources to support a “billion-ton bioeconomy.” Existing feedstock supply systems are reportedly not adequate to reliably provide high-quality feedstock…
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Protected: Analysis: Biotechnology in Fragrance market
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There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Elevance picks J.Tech for distribution partnership
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Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. has partnered with J. Tech Sales, LLC as its new U.S. distributor, effective June 1, 2016, for its Elevance Clean® product lines. J. Tech Sales will provide enhanced service and support capabilities for existing and potential customers in the U.S. with an interest in the Elevance Clean® product lines, including Elevance Clean® 1200XA…
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Protected: Global Pine Chemicals Industry: An overview
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Vertellus files for bankruptcy
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Indianapolis, US-based Vertellus Specialties has long been a player in the castor oil derivatives market even before it was formed in 2006 through the combined operations of Reilly Industries and Rutherford Chemicals (anybody remembers sebacic acid producer, Caschem based in New Jersey?). Vertellus recently announced that it has voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection in…
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Association, Company initiatives, Conference, Government, Investments, Partnership, Press Release, R&D, VideoSynthetic Biology – The next renewables frontier?
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Ok, so the title might be a bit misleading as I’ve been covering agbiotech for more than a decade and synthetic biology companies focusing on chemicals application since 2007 such as Genomatica, Amyris, Codexis, etc. However, it seems there are more and more interests these days on genome engineering tools for chemicals production as DNA synthesis…