Green Chemicals Blog
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DOE awards $18m grant to algae-based projects
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Let me post this before I leave for Montreal, Canada, today. The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced six projects that will receive up to $18 million in funding to reduce the modeled price of algae-based biofuels to less…
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CSIRO licenses Super High Oleic Safflower Oil
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When I was a reporter at the previously titled Chemical Market Reporter (now known as ICIS Chemical Business), I used to cover several specialty oilseeds markets such as safflower, camelina, high erucic rapeseed, castor, lesquerella, hemp, etc. I also covered…
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More off-take bio deal with Vinmar
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Vinmar is on a roll when it comes to doing off-take supply deals in the renewables sector. After the BioAmber bio-succinic acid deal, Vinmar recently announced that it has signed a 20-year contract for 19 billion pounds of AirCarbon PHA…
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DuPont’s cellulosic ethanol tech in China
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DuPont announced a licensing deal with Jilin Province New Tianlong Industry Co. Ltd. (NTL) for the use of DuPont’s cellulosic ethanol technology and its Accelerase enzymes for the production of renewable biofuel from leftover biomass on Jilin Province’s corn farms….
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LanzaTech, ArcelorMittal in bio-ethanol project
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LanzaTech announced yesterday that it has partnered with ArcelorMittal, a leading steel and mining company, and Primetals Technologies, a technology and service provider to the iron and steel industry, for a bio-ethanol project that will use waste gases, e.g. carbon…
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Bio-succinic acid and PDO in polyols
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Before I forget this news that came in last month (all the news and information I get, I write it up on Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-materials newsletter first), the bio-based polyurethane sector is certainly getting a lot of buzz and developments especially…
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Study: EU Bioeconomy worth EUR2 trillion
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The EU might be currently facing challenges right now with the Greece debt issue but it is noticeable that this region is upping its ante when it comes to investing in bio-based chemicals with its various public-private R&D and commercialization…