Company initiatives
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INVISTA, Eucodis Bioscience on enzymes collaboration
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INVISTA has been very active this year in pushing through its industrial biotechnology projects and the blog just recently posted its recent announcement about expanding the company’s collaboration with LanzaTech and commercialization of its bio-based LYCRA® spandex. Last week, INVISTA and…
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Siluria partners with Linde on ethylene tech
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Siluria Technologies and The Linde Group have entered into a collaboration agreement based on Siluria’s oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) technology, which catalytically converts methane directly to ethylene. The companies have formed joint teams, which will fully integrate the companies’ respective…
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INVISTA and LanzaTech expand collaboration
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I had several interviews last month and a few of them I will post in the blog as all the interviews I did was already published on Tecnon OrbiChem’s Bio-Materials newsletter. During the recent BIO World Congress in Philadelphia, INVISTA and…
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Aemetis Approved for NASDAQ Listing
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Aemetis, Inc., based in Cupertino, California, announced that its common stock will begin trading on Friday, June 6, 2014, on The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC under the “AMTXD” ticker symbol. After the company completes its market transition period on June…
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AkzoNobel, Solvay tracks bio-ECH in the supply chain
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AkzoNobel and Solvay have joined forces with EY (Ernst & Young) to jointly develop a monitoring system that tracks and quantifies the use of renewable raw materials in paints, coatings and other applications. The partnership builds on last year’s agreement…
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Solazyme Begins Commercial Production in Brazil
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Good news! I will be attending the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Initiative (ACS GCI) 18th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference (whew, that’s a mouthful!), which will be held on June 17-19 in Bethesda, Maryland. This is my first…
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Gevo ships bio-PX to Toray
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Apologies for the sparse posts as I just finished this month’s Tecnon OrbiChem Bio-Materials newsletter, which was published yesterday. Here are the headlines for this month’s Bio-Materials newsletter: Ethylene/Polyethylene SABIC will produce renewable second generation PP and PE from waste fats…