Green Chemicals Blog
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Attending this year’s ACI Meeting
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Let’s talk about oleochemicals and biobased surfactants, industries that I have been covering for more than 14 years (and still trying to learn about it). If you want to know the global who’s who in these industries, there is no better conference in the US to attend than the annual American Cleaning Institute’s Meeting and…
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Changes in Pricing for Used Motor Oil Feedstock
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The blog also looks into the recycling markets from time to time and from what I have heard in the recycled PET industry, the market has been struggling to compete as virgin PET prices have softened dragged by the overall lower petrochemical feedstock prices (and plenty of available materials). The blog has been following announcements…
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Raizen, Iogen starts cellulosic ethanol production
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Joining the startup of several other cellulosic ethanol facilities such as from DSM-POET, Abengoa and Granbio, is Raizen who recently began its own production of cellulosic ethanol using Iogen’s technology at Raizen’s newly expanded Costa Pinto sugarcane mill in Piracicaba, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The 40 million litres/year facility, with investment worth of $100 million, will…
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2014: Renewable chemicals review
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The green blogger is, unfortunately suffering from the flu, but I have been working on this for the past few days and wanted to post this before the year ends. All in all, it has been a hectic but personally a productive year for the green blogger although this has somewhat impacted the number of…
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BioConSepT Video: From woodchips to lipsticks
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Happy Holidays readers of the blog! As you know I am a fan of videos so I am going to post another one, this time from our friends at the BioConSepT Project who are looking to make the concept of biochemicals and biotechnology processes a little easier to “digest” to those who are not familiar…
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Solazyme in cost reduction mode, lays off workers
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It’s a sad holiday for some Solazyme employees as the company announced today that it will reduce its workforce and implement other cost-cutting measures in order to reduce cash operating expenses of at least $18 million in 2015. The company anticipates recording a charge of approximately $3.0 million to $5.0 million in the fourth quarter…
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Port of Rotterdam looking to attract Bio investments
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The blog has reported in the past about the Malaysian Biotech hub, Bio-XCell, trying to attract several renewable chemical companies looking to invest capacities in the region such as the recent announcement from Verdezyne. However, there are other chemical hubs who are looking to expand into the bio-based sector and one of them is the…