Green Chemicals Blog
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Origin Materials chose Louisiana for 1st world-scale facility
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Origin Materials announced yesterday that Geismar, Louisiana will be the location of its first world-scale manufacturing facility called Origin 2. Origin 1 is currently being constructed in Sarnia, Canada. Both facilities will produce chloromethylfurfural (CMF) and hydrothermal carbon (HTC) using…
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Synthos to build a commercial bio-butadiene plant
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It has been a long time coming for the commercialization of bio-based butadiene (at least for this one where you can count the percentage renewable content unlike some of the mass balance approaches). I have been monitoring this space for…
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PepsiCo sets 2030 virgin fossil-free plastic goal
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This announcement from PepsiCo Europe is just one of the growing list of well-known consumer brands looking to reduce or eliminate future use of virgin fossil-based plastic in their product packaging. The company says it plans to eliminate virgin fossil-based…
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Association, Biofuel, Bioplastic, Biorefinery, Clean technology, Government, Investments, Press Release, R&DCanada seeks bio-based projects
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Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC) is a nationally focused not-for-profit business accelerator who provides critical strategic investment, advice, and services to business developers of clean, green and sustainable technologies. BIC is currently seeking Letters of Intent (LOI) for research projects to…
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Update in metathesis technology commercialisation
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Last month, the death of Professor Robert Grubbs, a 2005 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry and instrumental in the development of metathesis catalysts, took me back all the way in 2008 during the formation of Elevance Renewable Sciences, one of…
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Eastman’s $1bn plastics recycling investment in France
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Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-Materials reporting has continuously evolved to catch up with the latest low-carbon/zero-carbon technology solutions being developed within the chemical/materials sector. I have already been including analysis and reports about the recycling trends and projects – especially chemical recycling…
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Indonesia embarks on smart manufacturing for sustainable plastics production
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The Green Chemicals Blog is currently a media partner for this year’s Chinaplas plastics tradeshow which will be held in Shanghai on 25-28 April. Our friends from Chinaplas recently shared this interesting information about Indonesia’s sustainable plastics goal and their…