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Cellulosic sugar coming soon to a market near you
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I am now working on my Biomaterials newsletter deadline at Tecnon OrbiChem so I’m copying this press release word for word: Cellulosic Sugar Producers Cooperative (CSPC) has initiated an equity campaign to develop a corn stover and wheat straw to…
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New BIO Report: Renewable Chemical Commercialization
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Industry trade organization, BIO, has released a new report featuring snapshots of the renewable chemical industry, with profiles of companies that are commercializing new bio-based chemicals/materials including production capacity. The report is intended to illustrate the potential of this industry,…
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VIDEO: More Bio investments in Canada
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After my recent post on US government investment in Maine, here’s one from the Government of Canada with a $12 million funding to Bioindustrial Innovation Canada (BIC) to create 478 full-time equivalent jobs and result in 250 new industrial collaborations,…
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US Commerce Dept. invests in Bio-Based Maine
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The US Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) will invest $519,930 as part of a $856,549 project to Bio-Based Maine, in partnership with the University of Maine, to develop a road map to advance biobased manufacturing, marketing Maine’s biobased…
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Get to know the New Plastics Economy
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While the blog is still in the bioplastics mood, I’ve been hearing more and more about circular economy when it comes to the plastics industry and I came across this interesting study as well as this new three-year initiative called…
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Association, Company initiatives, Conference, Government, Investments, Partnership, Press Release, R&D, VideoSynthetic Biology – The next renewables frontier?
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Ok, so the title might be a bit misleading as I’ve been covering agbiotech for more than a decade and synthetic biology companies focusing on chemicals application since 2007 such as Genomatica, Amyris, Codexis, etc. However, it seems there are more…
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Corbion to form 2nd Gen PLA consortium
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I am seeing a lot of consortiums being formed these days and I think that’s a great thing in the renewable chemicals sector. Corbion is inviting users of PLA to join a consortium to accelerate the market introduction of PLA…