Company initiatives
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New partnership deals
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The blog has been a bit late delivering fresh news lately but hopefully our extra content is good enough compensation. Early this week, Italian chemical company Versalis announced its partnership with Yulex, a US company that has developed a guayule…
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LS9 looks for commercialization partnership
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I had the pleasure of briefly speaking to LS9’s new CEO Tjerk de Ruiter this week and I was pleasantly surprised that he remembered this newbie “green” reporter back in 2008 when I interviewed him about Genencor’s bio-isoprene and biofuel…
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Oleochemical updates
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This post is long overdue but fortunately I will be able to use some of the information here for my incoming presentation at the Plant Bio-Industrial Oils (PBIO) Workshop to be held on March 6-7 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Some of…
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LS9 continues on with new CEO
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I received several inquiries today regarding the rumor that came out from Biofuel Digest this morning that San Francisco-based LS9 was possibly closing down with staff going to being laid off. Tjerk De Ruiter Unfortunately, I was traveling throughout the…
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NatureWorks starts Asia expansion plans
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It has been quite a while since the blog had an update about NatureWorks’ plans for its polylactic acid (PLA) expansion in Thailand ever since PTT Global Chemical announced the completion of its 50% stake acquisition of NatureWorks in June…
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BNDES invests $294m in GraalBio
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This is all over the news today as Brazilian development bank Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economico e Social (BNDES) announced yesterday another hundred million dollars loan approval this time with Brazilian cellulosic biomass technology developer GraalBio following another announcement last…
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More green funding comes in
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I think this is a good sign that various governments, banks and investors are putting in more cash and loans this month for biofuel /renewable chemical activities (see earlier post on the funding prospects for 2013). This week, Solazyme’s joint…