Bioplastic
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Metabolix expands collaboration with Samsung Fine Chemicals
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It has been a great day seeing the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Trading Floor for the first time as the blog covered BioAmber’s ringing of the NYSE’s opening bell yesterday morning. More on my interview with CEO Jean-Francois Huc…
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Evonik develops lauric acid-based PA12
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Evonik said it has began operating a pilot plant for ω-amino lauric acid (ALS) in Slovenska Lupca, Slovakia, which is being developed as alternative to petroleum-based laurin lactam (LL) monomer. LL is currently used as feedstock in the manufacture of…
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Cereplast gives 1H 2013 earnings updates
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US bioplastic producer Cereplast has provided a shareholder update including an overview of the first half of 2013 and outlook for the remainder of the year. Compared to 2012, revenue for the first 6 months of 2013 experienced major growth,…
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Stora Enso invests in Finnish biorefinery
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Finnish pulp and paper company Stora Enso is investing EUR 32m to build a world-class biorefinery at Sunila Mill in Finland containing lignin extraction plant and dryer, lignin dust burners in the lime kilns and a packing line. The company…
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Bayer to commercialize CO2-based polyols
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It is almost the end of July and I just want to remind those who are interested in subscribing to our new Bio-Materials & Intermediates reports that you have until next week Wednesday (July 31) to avail of Tecnon OrbiChem’s special…
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Solegear Bioplastics get Canada support
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Solegear Bioplastics has entered into a significant Contribution Agreement with the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP). Solegear seeks to develop bioplastic technologies that leverage industrial waste sources to address durability requirements and mitigate toxic flame…
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GCB News Roundup
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The green blogger is on a mini-vacation and will be back on Thursday, July25. In the meantime, let me post this news roundup as it has been a long since my last weekly news roundup post. I am trying to…