Bioplastic
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Avantium’s 100% biobased T-shirts from recycled PEF bottles
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The first time I covered Avantium’s PEF (polyethylene furanoate) resin, which is being offered as an alternative to PET (polyethylene terephthalate), one of the industry concerns about this new bio-based material is if it can fit into the existing PET…
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FTC cracks down biodegradable plastic claims
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The US Federal Trade Commission recently announced enforcement actions on several environmental marketing claims addressing biodegradable plastics. This is part of the FTC’s program to ensure compliance with the agency’s revised Green Guides. The Guides enable businesses to market their…
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Time to make a change: FKuR Video
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It seems video presentations are now the “in-thing” at most of the conferences I have attended this year. While some of them are really just company marketing, others are pretty interesting. Here is one from bioplastic company FKuR. I am…
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NatureWorks’ next generation lactide
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NatureWorks announced the world scale availability of its new Ingeo M700, a high-purity, polymer-grade lactide rich in meso-lactide. Ingeo M700 has been designed to package and deliver performance and functionality all in one molecule. Ingeo M700 lactide can be used…
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Meredian aims 30 ktpa PHA capacity in 2014
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Tecnon OrbiChem’s 2nd issue of its Bio-Materials & Intermediates newsletter is now out, and I am really excited for this one as we were able to get several major updates for bio-PET and bio-MEG including price premiums, the future of…
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Lanxess’ customers showcase PBT using bio-BDO
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This week is chock-full of press releases especially coming from K2013 that hopefully it will calm down next week because it is my newsletter deadline week! For this news, Genomatica has been building up the downstream applications for its bio-based…
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Solvay launches high-performance bio-based polyamides in electronics
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Solvay Specialty Polymers has expanded its Kalix® high-performance polyamide (HPPA) product line, with a new portfolio of bio-based high-performance polyamides offered for use in smart mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets, laptops, and other smart mobile electronics. The introduction…