Happy Thanksgiving to our US readers! I deemed last week’s AFCC’s first conference in Washington DC as a success and I, along with my colleague from Forest2Market, had a productive workshop session focusing on forestry feedstock for biofuels and renewable chemicals. We also had a presentation from the Pine Chemicals Association about the importance of chemical products produced from Crude Tall Oil (CTO), Crude Sulphate Turpentine (CST), and oleoresin tapped from pine trees or from wood stumps, which has long been a major contributor to the US bioeconomy even before the terms sustainability and circularity became popular. Meanwhile, you really should check out P2 Science’s amazing and safer ozonolysis processing technology that enables the company to produce various specialty chemicals using renewable feedstock including forestry-based terpenes. P2 Science was also one of our presenters at the workshop.

Speaking of wood-based chemicals, Tecnon OrbiChem’s new marketing person, Jane Denny, just wrote two excellent blog posts on wood-based textiles and chemicals updates.

The first post “SUSTAINABLE FEEDSTOCK FOR AN ETHICAL FASHION INDUSTRY” talks about companies and organizations working on naturally occurring polymer cellulose in the move towards sustainable fashion. Here’s one of my slides from my AFCC presentation noting the supply chain for cellulosic fibers and resins from dissolving pulp.

Her second post, “RENEWABLE MATERIALS AND THE FUTURE OF PLASTICS“, which was published yesterday, talks about wood-based chemicals projects such as from Origin Materials, UPM, and Stora Enso. 

All of these articles are accessible on our Tecnon OrbiChem website (just click the highlighted links above).