Company initiatives
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Algae 2013 Survey
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The Algae Biomass Organization recently released its 2013 industry survey conducted in January where more than 470 people within the algae industry submitted their opinions and projections on the industry’s growth, barriers to advancement and policy priorities through 2020. According…
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Big biofuel news: KLM, Kior, Sapphire
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While I’m battling some sort of a bug, which hopefully will go away before my trip to the AFPM meeting this coming weekend, here are some big news from the biofuel industry coming from KLM, Kior and Sapphire Energy. Let’s…
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Bio-1,3 PDO market update
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Photo source: DuPont The blog saw this news about Lambert-Saint Louis International Airport (STL) claiming to be the first in the US to use a biobased de-icing fluid using Kilfrost DFSustain Type 1 bio-propanediol (PDO). The deicing operations were carried…
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Video: Bio-on and its PHA story
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I rarely see news about Italian polyhydroxyalkanoic (PHA) producer Bio-on so this video in English subbing is a great source of information (it’s a 20+ minute video but very entertaining). The last news the blog reported about Bio-on was when…
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Biobased coatings/adhesives news
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I don’t usually get many news covering biobased chemicals for coatings and adhesives and the last big one was about the partnership between Henkel and Danimer on developing bio-based hotmelt adhesives for consumer packaging. And maybe I can also add…
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Bio-MMA development expands
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I have reported about the development of biobased methyl methacrylate (MMA) only one time in November 2011 when Mitsubishi Rayon (MRC) and its subsidiary Lucite International announced that they have developed bio-based MMA, a chemical used in coatings, transparent plastics…
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Zeachem starts cellulosic ethanol output
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There are soooo many news that came out this week, I just can’t do a longer analysis on each of them. But I’ll try to post as much of these news items as I can. First stop is Colorado, US-based…