Company initiatives
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Europe forms bioplastics network
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The Bioplastics Organisations Network Europe (BON Europe) has been recently formed as a collaboration of national bioplastics organizations from across Europe. BON Europe was launched in summer 2015 with the mission to connect initiatives around the bioplastics industry on EU…
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Rivertop launches glucaric-based water treatment ingredients
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Rivertop Renewables, a Montana-based novel chemicals company, launched Waterline™ corrosion inhibitors and chelating agents, a new family of cost-effective, high performance and sustainable chemicals designed to be integrated with products in the water treatment industry. The new products are high…
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World’s first Bio LPG facility in 2016
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Finland-based Neste breaks ground on what it claims to be the world’s first Bio LPG facility located at Neste’s renewable product refinery in Rotterdam. The EUR 60 million facility will start production of Bio LPG in the end of 2016….
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Europe launches Forest-based Chemicals Collaboration
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I have reported in June on Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-Materials newsletter about this newly-launched Valchem project, which received €13.1 million funding from the European Union to demonstrate the technical and economic viability of an integrated biochemical process covering the whole chain…
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Deinove produces muconic acid from 2G substrates
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The blog has been following France-based Deinove for quite sometime now, with its development of its Deinococcus microorganism. The company recently announced that it has been able to produce muconic acid in their laboratory using second generation cellulose-based materials. Muconic…
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Amyris develops yeast strain for fragrance molecule
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Hello blog readers. I am currently in San Diego attending INFOCAST’s Methane Bioengineering Summit (#MethaneSummit) yesterday, and the Sustainability Chemicals (#INFOCASTBio) summit today and tomorrow. I hope you’ve been following my tweets on it. In the meantime, let me write…
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Butamax and Gevo settle isobutanol patent war
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Great news are coming out just as I am in the middle of writing my newsletter! Here’s one fresh from Gevo and Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC, where the two companies are entering a worldwide patent cross-license and settlement agreements, ending…