Green Chemicals Blog
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Elevance partners with E-360 for lube customers support
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Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. expanded its customer support and service capabilities for Elevance Aria™ WTP 40 synthetic base stock customers in the United States and Europe through a collaboration with E-360, Inc. E-360’s presence in Europe significantly expands Elevance’s ability…
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Dow Launches 2025 Sustainability Goals
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I received this email from the Dow Chemical Company about its new 2025 Sustainability Goals which reportedly is “designed to develop breakthrough product innovations, positively impact the lives of 1 billion people, and deliver $1 billion in cost savings or…
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BioAmber partners with JM Davy for bio-BDO/THF
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Hello blog readers. It is a bit difficult adjusting from a back-to-back trips for two weeks but hopefully I’ll be able to post a summary of my tweets from the Plant Based Summit soon. In the meantime, here’s a recent…
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Lygos produces malonic acid in pilot scale
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I am finalizing my schedule for the Plant Based Summit this week and it was tough trying to pick and choose which ones to attend as all of them have very interesting topics and speakers. I will also be moderating…
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New Feedstock Paradigm: Winners and Losers
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The chemical industry had adapted to crude oil prices that had been fairly stable at around $100-110/bbl since early 2011, so the rapid slide in prices in Q4 2014 and into this year has caused much heart searching in the…
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Walmart launches sustainable shopping online
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I have finally finished my 56-page Tecnon OrbiChem Bio-materials newsletter and the March Chemical Profile was all about polybutylene succinate (PBS). Charles Fryer, who worked on the Chemical Profile, was able to interview PTT MCC last month. I hope subscribers…
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Bio-On and Pizzoli to build potato waste-based PHA plant
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Italian renewable chemicals developer, Bio-on S.p.A., and Pizzoli S.p.A., Italy’s largest operator in the potato sector, will collaborate to build the nation’s first PHAs bioplastic production plant using waste product from the potato agro-industrial process. The facility is expected to…