Bioplastic
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Trellis Earth Products buys Cereplast
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Trellis Earth Products, Inc., a leading maker of bioplastic food service disposables, will pay $2.6 million for substantially all of Cereplast’s assets including production equipment, patents, inventory, and trademarks, plus pay certain contract cure costs, as part of Cereplast’s Chapter…
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BIOME VIDEO: Lignin as bioplastic feedstock
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Hello from the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Initiative’s (ACSGCI) 18th annual Green Chemistry & Engineering conference. I will be listening this morning to a presentation about lignin bio-oil as styrene alternative from researchers at the Department of Biomolecular Engineering,…
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Ford and Heinz collaborate on tomato fibers for cars
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This is an interesting news for the blog that you can use tomato skins to make composite plastics. According to Ford and H.J. Heinz Company, researchers at the companies have been exploring the use of tomato fiber to develop a…
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Avantium Raises €36M, ready for commercial-scale
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I still have several interviews from last month that I need to post and I’m also receiving recent press releases so please bear with me as I try to juggle work and blogging. Next week, I will be at the…
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Biopolymers Symposium 2014
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Dyson explores biopolymer use
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Like other premium brands (and Dyson products are definitely expensive), British vacuum manufacturer Dyson is exploring the use of biopolymers for their products and they seem to be enthusiastic about it (see the video below). Dyson has been working with…
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UPM launched the Biofore concept car
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It’s 6am US EST and I still can’t sleep (which I will pay for later), so it’s back to blogging for me. Helsinki, Finland-based pulp and paper company UPM recently launched the Biofore Concept Car at the Geneva International Motor…