Company initiatives
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Vertellus files for bankruptcy
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Indianapolis, US-based Vertellus Specialties has long been a player in the castor oil derivatives market even before it was formed in 2006 through the combined operations of Reilly Industries and Rutherford Chemicals (anybody remembers sebacic acid producer, Caschem based in New Jersey?). Vertellus recently announced that it has voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection in…
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Association, Company initiatives, Conference, Government, Investments, Partnership, Press Release, R&D, VideoSynthetic Biology – The next renewables frontier?
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Ok, so the title might be a bit misleading as I’ve been covering agbiotech for more than a decade and synthetic biology companies focusing on chemicals application since 2007 such as Genomatica, Amyris, Codexis, etc. However, it seems there are more and more interests these days on genome engineering tools for chemicals production as DNA synthesis…
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Global Bioenergies advances bio-isobutene commercialization
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Because I like posting videos, here’s one that was just published by France-based Global Bioenergies, which is currently building its new bio-isobutene demonstration plant at Leuna, a German petrochemical/refining complex. The first run on the demo plant is expected this autumn. Global Bioenergies also recently announced a EUR 9 million funding received under the Investissements…
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Hard times for public renewable chemical companies
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The past year and a half (or almost two years) has been very hard for public chemical companies as Codexis and Solazyme (now Terravia) reinvented themselves, while Gevo and Metabolix shareholders seem to be now looking into selling the companies as options due to financial difficulties. Gevo just announced that it hired Cowen & Company to explore…
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Amyris, CJ CheilJedang Partnership
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CJ CheilJedang has definitely been very busy this year in the bio-sphere. Amyris and South Korea-based CJ CheilJedang Corporation have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to support large-scale manufacturing of Amyris’s farnesene in existing CJ facilities. The arrangement described in the MOU would enable Amyris to utilize CJ’s manufacturing capacity while minimizing the capital…
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Rennovia, Stora Enso in partnership
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Yes, it has been awhile since I last posted and unfortunately, May is not going to be a good blogging month for me. Next week I’ll be on a much needed vacation off! For Tecnon OrbiChem newsletter subscribers, I am working on a bio-surfactant special report, so stay tune. In the meantime, here is a…
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Green Biologics in distributor partnerships
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Still in my catching-up mode, this time with bio-based n-butanol developer, Green Biologics, which we have the pleasure of speaking with at BIO World Congress. The company recently announced partnerships with chemical distributors, Nexeo and Acme Hardesty for its bio-butanol and bio-acetone, which will soon be produced at its first commercial production facility in Little Falls,…