Company initiatives
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Myriant partners with BCD Chemie
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Bio-succinic acid producer Myriant announced another partnership following its recent deal with Turkish chemical distributor Bayegan Group. Myriant said it has signed a distribution deal with Hamburg, Germany-based BCD Chemie to market and distribute Myriant’s bio-succinic acid and Myrifilm solvent in…
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Gevo gets 2nd demo unit from SHR
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Texas-based Arabian American Development Co. (ARSD) recently announced a new contract with Gevo to extend its toll processing services of the hydrocarbon processing demonstration plant at its South Hampton Resources (SHR) facility in Silsbee, Texas, and to construct a second…
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Booming University green chems research
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The blog has been seeing a lot of R&D news from various universities on how to improve green chemistry processing and these are definitely worthwhile checking out. Here’s one from the University of Florida (UF) about their research in turning…
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Cereplast seeks $50m opportunity in Italy plastic bag ban
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Bioplastic producer Cereplast put out this news yesterday about an Italian decree enforcing the legislation of a plastic bag ban effective May 27, 2013. Cereplast noted that the decree — published on March 18 in Italy’s Official Gazette — stated…
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Amyris updates partnership deals
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I’ve been reading Amyris’ recently filed annual report (10-K) with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which gives a comprehensive summary of the company’s performance last year, and it reminds the blog how difficult and risky it is for…
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UPDATE: Myriant to expand bio-succinic sales
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As I’ve promised, I will post an update about my recent communications with Myriant regarding their partnership announcement with Bayegan. Here are my Q&A with Alif Saleh, VP of Sales and Marketing at Myriant: 1.What are the market applications for…
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Metabolix partners with Tianjin GreenBio
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I entered my 3*th year this weekend suffering from a bad cold but the good news is that there will be no more traveling until early May when I have to present a Biobased chemical feedstock paper at the Asia…