Green Chemicals Blog
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Reverdia’s bio-succinic acid in action
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I am so glad April was over as it was exhausting although very productive. After attending/presenting/moderating at Nova Institut/BIO World Congress, I am still trying to catch up to last month’s news for the blog and here is one, which was announced during BIO World Congress. According to Reverdia, its Biossuccinium succinic acid as well…
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Rivertop, Amyris expand capacities
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These are late news but better late than never. It is refreshing to hear capacity expansion for renewable chemicals (even those that are just at pilot/demo scale) in the midst of low crude oil price environment. Montana-based Rivertop Renewables announced that it has exceeded the nameplate capacity of its first commercial production facility during benchmark testing.…
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Protected: Bio-based Building Blocks: Status in a Low Cost Crude Oil Environment
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Low cost oil environment sparks focus on performance for BioMaterials
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Mitsui & Co. talked about the importance of creating market pull at the Plenary session of BioWorld Congress in Industrial Biotechnology 2016 in San Diego, California last week. DuPont Industrial Biosciences also stressed the importance of performance to the success of biomaterials. Barrier properties are important for the PET industry and may drive demand for…
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Air Products Will Exit Energy-from-Waste Business
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Air Products recently announced that it will exit its Energy-from-Waste (EfW) business. As a result, the EfW business segment will be accounted for as a discontinued operation effective in the Company’s second fiscal quarter. Air Products expects to record a pre-tax charge in the range of $900 million to $1.0 billion in discontinued operations, primarily to write…
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Twitter Recap: Nova Institut Bio-Materials Conference 2016
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Here are snippets of the discussions and presentations from the two-day International Conference on Bio-Materials hosted by Nova Instiut and held in Cologne, Germany, early this month. Tecnon OrbiChem also presented its Bio-based chemical building blocks overview. Subscribers to Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-Materials newsletter will receive a copy of the full presentation soon. [DGreenblogger/twitter-recap-nova-institut-bio” target=”_blank”>View the…
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Protected: The PHA landscape updated: Metabolix and CJ to build 10ktpa capacity
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