Company initiatives
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Merger is in the air
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The announced merger of Dow Chemical and DuPont has the chemical industry abuzz and it leads to the question on the future of DuPont’s industrial bioscience business, which will be under the Specialty Products business of the merged companies. The $130 billion combined company called DowDuPont intends to subsequently pursue its separation into three independent…
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Green Biologics starts bio-butanol plant construction
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It’s 4am Italy time and yes, this is as good time as any to blog before I leave back to NYC this morning. I had a great time visiting GF Biochemicals here in Caserta and will blog about it soon. In the meantime, I am still catching up to some of the news on my…
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Bio-butadiene R&D steps up
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I am about to fly to Caserta, Italy, to visit GF Biochemicals’ new levulinic acid plant, which started production in July. I will blog more about my trip later this week and will also tweet while at the site (hopefully my wifi is working). By the way, GF Biochemicals recently bagged the John Sime award…
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Introducing: PLA-based biaxially oriented film
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In PLA news, BI-AX International, a packaging film and sheet specialist, has launched an entirely new line of its Evlon biaxially oriented sheet products developed in collaboration with NatureWorks. This new biobased sheet made from Ingeo biopolymer reportedly provides a competitive alternative to polyvinyl chloride (PVC ) and high-impact polystyrene (HIPS), credit, key and gift cards as well…
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Green Biologics joins ACC
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If a renewable chemical company wants to be integrated in the chemical supply chain, I guess it is better to join trade organizations who know the supply chain inside and out. Green Biologics Ltd., a U.K. based industrial biotechnology and renewable chemicals company announced early this month that it was approved for membership to the…
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EUROPE’S LEADING BIOECONOMY CLUSTERS NOW WORKING TOGETHER AS 3BI
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3BI Intercluster, a new strategic European partnership joining the leading bioeconomy clusters in the Netherlands, France, the UK and Germany, was recently launched to support European companies in R&D and deployment of novel high-tech approaches to the conversion of biomass and waste streams into value-added products and applications. This partnership involves Biobased Delta (Netherlands), BioEconomy…
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North Face develops coat from biotech silk
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Coming from the recent SynBioBeta conference, I may not be able to understand some of the technicalities of gene modification but I do understand the potential economics on some of these technologies being churned out of the lab. One of them is biotech spider silk that the blog mentioned in September, where California-based Bolt Threads…